Review: Good Zombie read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2012
I enjoyed the book, good premise, zombies had some twists on the canon yet were still "zombies"I like the use of SF troops, usually they are all powerful, unstoppable killing machines, I think the authors did a good job of describing the personality type that operators usually are and they, like real life, didn't always have everything they needed fall into their laps, never get hurt and get out of every scrape unscathed, like happens in most zombie novels.The authors didn't over-burden us with useless, page filling, techno babel, describing every detail about equipment and tactics, this is one of my major pet-peeves with zombie fiction, that and the "heroes" always having everything they need, or always catching every lucky break.The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of their inclusion of a female SF operator, note to all authors, I know you wan't to be politically correct, but in case you didn't know, there are NO FREAKING FEMALE operators! It's not sexist, it's biological.  Women don't have the upper body strength to complete the courses required for qualification, end of story, no discussion. In my opinion it's more demeaning to have a token female sniper and the stereotypical black guy, than it is to not include them.  Almost 100% of SF operators share the same background, 2nd and 3rd sons of middle-class, caucasian, families. This has shown to produce the narcicistic-psychopathy personality type that is conducive to successful operators, and though there are exceptions this is usually the rule.  I'm not even going to mention the problems that can arise to mix-gender/sexuality issues that can cause problems in small unit, tight knit, actions.Other than these very technical issues, the overall story telling was good.  The grammar and spelling were top-notch and the flow of the story stayed fast and on pace. I would recommend this book to lovers of zombie literature.