Review: Recommended read with a few problems.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2011
Ever have one of those days where it feels like every one's out to get you? You get called in on your day off, get a ticket on the way to work, and every customer is trying to kill you with their bare hands?Oh, wait. That last part isn't your day. That's Mitchell Roberts' day.Andrew Mayne gives us a whole new incarnation of the zombie story with his book Public Enemy Zero.It's so nice to talk about a zombie story that isn't post apocalyptic! With a likable main character! Where the characters actually care that they're killing people who can't help themselves. The action in this book is great, the story is fast paced and the punches keep coming. Mitchell is an easy protagonist to like and the villains are believable, but not complex, so they're easy to hate.There's a couple problems though. In a lot of spots the writing seems.. off. The perspective shifts oddly sometimes, so you're not sure who's viewpoint you're standing in at that moment. There's a few tiny spelling checks, easily ignored.It's not as easy to ignore the tree hugger in the room. There's a subplot, or maybe a macro-plot that has to do with a tree and some dude tripping on what must be some awesome shrooms. I'm still not sure what he was doing, I'm only a little sure of who he was, and I know that his subplot added nothing to the plot. Whoever he is, he would have been more entertaining, and made more sense to the story, if he was just another government shill.All in all, ignoring the weird subplot, it was a great book. At 0.99$ it's more than worth your time.