Review: Technically a 3.5 star read. It was different, but had it's faults.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2014
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I mostly like zombie books. But I tend to stay away from them as they are all seemingly the same. Pockets of the Dead is a bit of a different kind of the zombie story. First, there is no story as to how the zombie virus came to be, it just is. Second, how the main character kills the zombies is a bit unorthodox. Actually, it's a bit far-fetched. However, since it is a zombie book and end of the world book, I let that slide in my assessment.I would have liked more of the story about the virus and where it came from. Some of the writing was a bit oddly worded and seemed unpolished .The story was frustrating at times as the main character is supposed to be in college but sometimes she sounded like a teenager and other times she sounded like the sociology major she was supposed to portray. Some of her reactions to certain scenarios were abnormal and not typical of what you would think she would do. However, I did enjoy the overall story and was intrigued by the outsiders and what was going to happen once they breached the village. I didn't like the cliffhanger ending either, but who does?  I give this story 3.5 books.