Review: 2.5 stars
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2013
The review by Christopher T. Owens was spot on. I too am ex military and found the jargon tedious. I skipped through a lot of pages of unnecessary equipment descriptions trying to get to the story about the English isle as perhaps the last human outpost in the world. Unfortunately, that story appeared in only a few paragraphs.I'm hoping for more character development in the next book, and less of a lecture series on equipment/command structure/jargon. The stilted dialogue between people who've been working together for years doesn't ring true. There's a verbal shorthand that people who know each other use. Explanations can be given in much smaller doses during many more action sequences, as in "I grabbed the scope from his pack, while we scrambled up the stairs with Zees hot behind us." We don't need the technical names of the scope, the pack or his boots to know what's going on.I want to know how the tier-1 characters are coping now and who they're coping with. Balance the testosterone with some estrogen please. They can't be completely mired in the past or they would've offed themselves by now. Also, why aren't the civilians taking a more active approach in zombie killing. Even those who are growing crops need to know how to work together to kill any threats. Hopefully, things will get better in the series.