Review: Good fast zombie read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
First I am giving this book 4 stars because although it is written with a female first person POV, I have to say I really didn't like her very much at first. She seems too ready to avoid anything painful or outside her comfort zone. Yet she is living during a zombie apocalypse when she needs all her best thinking and reflexes but smokes pot (I guess they considered this was an important resource to take along?) which dulls both of those senses. But perhaps with nerves always on edge relaxing once in a while is okay, but when you are two people out on your own? Not wise in my zombie book. She just seems like she is not operating on her best smarts yet but I am willing to give her a chance to grow.I finished this book in a day. It very much captured my attention.  It is pretty much your standard zombie story told from a woman's viewpoint. This woman is one I did not particularly like in the beginning, as she was one to avoid facing hard choices and sort of buried her head in the sand for as long as she could, even with stern warnings and entreaties not to.When she finally does face the dread coming she rises to the challenge and continues to step up to meet them. She is separated from her husband but is able to take friends and her daughter to prepare for the zombie apocalypse that is coming.And as in most zombie stories, the most dangerous creature out there is man who without laws think they are entitled to take whatever they want....just because they can. And it does get intense.I am hoping a second book is coming. This one set a good foundation but there is much left to tell and I won't go into all the story lines here because it would ruin the power of them. Do read this book. It goes quickly and I did come to like the female protagonist much more than I did at the beginning, which was not at all.