Review: Settled into an easy rhythm - Book Three and it's hi-ho for the highlands....!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
Christian Fletcher is now well and truly following a polished groove with his on-going adventure featuring Wilde Man, Smith, Batfish and Spot the dog in the new world of the zombie apocalypse.  They are very much an Enid Blytonesque "Famous Four" who stagger and sometimes bumble into one cliff-hanging adventure following hard on the heels of the last.  Zombies stumble, M9 pistols crack, characters whine, newbies are introduced (and die) and yet still the whole ghastly theater continues its macabre staggering undead twerk.Books one and two built up the tension and consummated the deal, Book three however has started to become a little sparkless.  You ****know**** Wilde and the gang ***will*** escape in the next chapter, even though a quickly forgotten secondary character **may** be sacrificed.Sadly for me, some of the earlier spice and suspense has ebbed away and it's now more of a entertaining soap opera than a series of novels with a deeper meaning involving cunningly devious twists.  For example, I was sortta hoping that one of the crew (e.g. Smith) had a secret agenda right from Day One which involved great danger to the others: like why did Smith insist on taking all the money with them?  Is this a clue?  Could Smith be orchestrating the teams' continual flights into danger?  Who really is the mysterious Batfish?  Why was she holed up with the other Goth chick and Mr Cornrows?  Is she the one?  Could Wilde's strange alter ego be significant at a level more profound than a simple psychotic episode due to stress?I gave this four stars because it's an entertaining yarn.  3.5 would be my score in the real world...rounding up works, right?