Review: Great children's story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2012
Zack & Zoey's Alien Apocalypse is a children's story about three students: Zack, Zoey, and Sunny, and their plight against an invading alien force that insist on devouring humans. The aliens can communicate with humans and with their overwhelming force they begin taking over the system, casually feeding on humans. Zack and Zoey's school is one of many easy-feeding grounds as the principal obliges the alien force's request to fatten up their students and place them out in the open as much as possible, making them easy targets. In response, the students find a quirky way to combat the aliens, which only angers them, making them come back armed with more than their hunger and end up kidnapping a lot of the students. So Zack, your narrator, works with others to perform a daring rescue.The characters are all very typical for your average children's tale. You have: Zack, who's the brave hero, but in result he's rather bland; Zoey who is the romance-seeking preteen heroine; Sunny, as no group would be complete without without the intellectual that has the solution for everything right? Plus for a couple of your adults you have the ruler-snapping tyrannical teacher (that secretly cares for her students), and the pants-wetting cowardly principal who sells out the children to save himself. However their roles all fit in well and with it being a children's story, there's little need to do anything different to impress the target audience.The only thing I feel that's really missing in the character setup is the lack of parental intervention. I mean, with aliens eating everyone and the school system setup to purposely feed children to their predators, I don't see parents sending their kids to school every day.Overall, I believe it's a good story for children. You've got an entertaining plot and setup. The story is well-written and memorable and the only question marked I raised is the absence of parents until the very end of the story. Any way you look at it though, I can see this being read multiple times by children hooked to the adventures of Zack and Zoey.