Review: Oh, Tommy....don't do it
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 16, 2011
As this is my second review of one of Robert DeCoteau's short/parallel stories related to his Don of the Living Dead book, I really want to reiterate that I generally abhor short stories with a fiery, stinging passion.The concept of the "Zombie Tales" books, perspectives (in separate novellas) of different residents of an apartment building set in the Don world during an impending zombpocalypse was such a novel (heh, novel, I made a joke!) concept, that I overlooked my general dislike and decided to take a chance.Not only was this very well written (some minor editing complaints, though), but it was surprisingly well done in so few pages.Robert DeCoteau has written his main character, Tommy, superbly well in such a small space. Tommy is a loser, slacker, pothead, stuck taking care of his elderly mother, who (in her head) is living in the past. There's not a lot of good going on in Tommy's life, but he's just trying to muddle through.So, of course, everything in his life WOULD go wrong on the same day as the onset of a zombie apocalypse...