Review: HIRE AN EDITOR!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 13, 2013
What get's me the most about self-published author's is fact that most of them try to get their work out onto a kindle or printed book as quick as possible and seriously neglect their editing duties. Enter Robert Paine's The Dead Road. It has typos aplenty and there's no real excuse for it when you consider it's about a 150 page novella. Typos aside, is there any author's out there that have anything new to contribute to the zombie genre? Paine certainly doesn't. Standard boring cookie-cutter premise. Why have I given up reading most zombie fiction? Because there's no drama in it. Nothing to drive the plot, except mindless blood and gore or trying to get from point A to point B with poor character development. It gets really tedious when the author has the characters of the story counting off how many zombies they're taking out.The Dead Road's plot is very lacking. Like I said before, it basically boils down to three guys trying to get down a 10 mile or so road to a vehicle and then getting to another town and then getting to a store for supplies and then rescue a girl, whom you don't really care about you have no emotional attachment to. That's how it is in The Dead Road, wash and repeat with hardly any character development and nothing dramatic happening. By the end, we know hardly any more about the main three characters than we did at the start. What makes The Walking Dead tv series so great is the characters and the drama surrounding them. With the typos and poor plot this just isn't worth the current price. Maybe a buck. Maybe. The ending was pretty decent and is really the only thing that saves this from 1 star. I hate to be harsh, but I'm really fed up with all of the redundancy, mediocracy, typos, and tediousness of zombie stories being released nowadays.UPDATE:TGI: Well, there's a difference between my grammar usage and the author's, as you seem to have failed to realize. The author is publishing a professional piece of work. If I were going to do such, I think I would want to know my English, well, or at least hire someone who does. I'm not a professional reviewer and do not review for any monetary gain, but merely because I enjoy it. Yes, my grammar may not be the greatest, but I don't claim it to be nor am I presenting it professionally. You harping me because of my review is not professional, when it's not intended to be, is just being an arse. I'm not Gene Siskel! However, TGI, since you're such a renowned user of the English language maybe you and Paine can get together and you can give him some pointers. Just a thought.... since you like to flaunt.