Review: Nice Little Taster From a Seldom Told Point of View During a Zombie Outbreak
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
Kellie's Diary is written through a primary school girl's eyes, where everyone at school starts to get sick and the numbers of healthy drop day by day until one day a confused Kellie is trapped in her school's bathroom and doesn't understand what is going on.  She's communicating her fear and other feelings to her only friend "Barbie" a diary she keeps in her backpack. I like how Kellie doesn't know what a zombie is, although it's probably a bit unrealistic that she doesn't, especially if she is intelligent enough and has the ability to write at the level she does.  But not knowing what these monsters as she calls them are, makes her descriptions of what is happening around her all the more innocent and compelling.The short story is written as a number of images of school ruled notebook pages with a font that resembles hand writing.  I like this but wish the creators had taken the time to format and size it correctly to fit onto the entire Kindle screen page, the way it is each image only takes up the top half of the screen.  I could read it fine but for those with eyesight troubles, this may be an issue.  Although the zombie outbreak written through a child's eyes isn't entirely original, the most famous would be a picture book called That's Not Your Mommy Anymore by Matt Mogk, but I can't think of a short story where it has been done better than Kellie's Diary.  If the quality can be kept up this will be quite a good series, which hopefully will one day when enough sequels have been written be published into a physical book which can be read in one hit.