Review: very disappointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2012
I mostly started this book because of the dog, turns out the only good part of the book was the dog.  I think the author has some skill, but not much of an idea about what people want to read.  The main character kept referring to himself as a coward.  I don't think he was lacking in courage as much as in brains.  He went from bad situation to worse and stayed way too long.  Most of the problem was that he didn't seem to have any gut instinct and he didn't listen to the dogs instincts.  The choices he made were just not the realistic choices people would make.I usually laugh when I read a review on a zombie book and I read " not realistic ".  I think it's a zombie book, think about it, but zombie or not I still want to read somewhat humanistic behavior from the humans.Some facts should have been reaserched as well.  I don't write reviews based on spelling and punctuation errors, that would be me reviewing the editors.  The auto-editing we all have available to us is not really the help it would seem, many times I will go back and read something I have written in one of my reviews and find a totally different word than I entered or a period or comma thrown in for no apparent reason, but I am not an author or editor so I don't need to worry about this as much as an author or an editor.  I review only the story itself.This book started out good and just slid sadly to a bad ending.  I really hate giving negative reviews, writers work so hard at what they do and it is a craft I very much admire.  I do think this writer has skill, as a writer but needs to people watch for a while to get the storytelling skill that this book really needed.