Review: A mix of good and bad but the good pushes it forward
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
Undead Winter is a novella created by the mind of T.M. Williams. I picked up her work when it was briefly free on Amazon and added it to my overwhelming pile of zombie books to read and recently had a chance to fit in into my Kindle and actually sit down to read it.Undead Winter takes the view of mixing a few short stories that are loosely related to give us a narrative about how screwed up the Earth is once the zombie apocalypse does it. It’s a mixture of a few highly positive portions mixed with two complaints I want to throw in. So let’s go.We’re given this tale of a world gone to Hell from the perspective of 5 different people and each of these stories are split into two which are quite easily a beginning and an end.For how short the novella is T.M. does an amazing job at portraying them in a way that really gives you an attachment to who the characters are and what you want to see happen to them. From the President hiding out in Russia where the zombies are slowed by the cold to troops on the ground you get a range of the types of characters you’ll be reading about.Now the first downside is one that I mentioned above – the shortness of the novella. With the number of stories that you alternate between mixed with the writing style this probably would be in my highly suggest category (even with my second complaint) if it was a full length novel. I really did enjoy the writing style and what was fed us in the space allotted. The problem was that there wasn’t enough development that we could be given with the length. (T.W. if you read this please revisit Undead Winter and make it a full length novel so that you can really flesh out the story.)My second complaint is the zombies. While I loved almost every description of the undead going after their base need to feed there was another base need that was thrown in as well. Apparently sex was high up enough in what was left of their brains to want to have sex as well and there was a couple descriptions of undead on living rape. Not my personal thing but it was contained in small enough of a portion to not really become annoying compared to how much I loved the rest of this one.