Review: really good first book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
When I read that this was a first book by an "average Joe" :-) written about his life,  family and friends, and what they would in the event of a zombie apocalypse I didn't expect much.  I was pleasantly surprised.  I think all of us hooked on the zombie genre wonder how we would react in the event of such a world wide disaster, well this author actually put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, or stylus to...you get the idea.)I kind of expected it to be pretty corny, filled with unreal heroic gestures and grandstanding from the author pertaining to his character.  Hey,  we are all the hero in our own fantasys.  It was nothing like that.  He was a pretty humble main character.  I guess what I am trying to say is that it was real, as far as any zombie book can be.  It was exactly what he said it was going to be; a story about what a real guy (see average Joe reference) and his friends and family would do.  The cause of the zombies was an unusual one.  I have spent most of my summer with the zombies, in books anyway, meaning that I have read a lot of zombie books and this was an unusual format for zombie infection.  Other than that he stuck to the standard open arms,  moaning Z's which I liked.  I don't mind a little evolution for the zombies but I think it is important to stick pretty close to the standard, otherwise they are not zombies, right?All in all,  a good read.  I am looking forward to the next book.