Review: Good story. Nice twist to standard zombie fare. 3.5 Stars.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2013
This book is about  group of average folks trying to survive an apocalyptic extinction level pandemic event. The "zombies" are secondary to the daily living aspects of survival. Human raiders and  scum of the earth , as well as natural disasters are the biggest challenges. The story is pretty good and the characters , while being believable, were annoying naive and non-heroic to the degree of being annoying. I understand that this my prejudice (Damnit, I want to read about heroes doing heroic things, not everyman  trying his best to rise to the occasion and constantly screwing  up, yet learning from his mistakes!).  Yet this  is exactly what give  the story it's unique charm and sets it apart from the standard fair of the elite tier one operator acting like a veritable super hero saving everyone from the zombie apocalypse. This, while I sometimes cringed at the actions of the characters, made m  change my initial rating from 3 to 4 stars. Anyone who enjoys enjoys  end of the world scenario stories will this appreciate this book. In fact, in spite of being annoyed with the lack of sophistication of the characters, I will be downloading the sequel now.