Review: Not what I expected
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2012
I loved this book. Granted I like zombie tales only if they have a viable plot and with the zombie and dead craze saturating not only the realm of books but television and cinema as well, we're on overload! So when I got the chance to find and read this little gem in the rough I could not put it down! READ IT!It starts off simple enough and from the beginning we get an idea this may be about an old lady that might have been driven insane because of the zombie epidemic and all the horrors she faced. And while some of this is true, the woman is hardly insane, a crazy or even the anti social she is made out to be. May is a true survivor of the darkest period in her life and humanity. She is credited for truly bringing the world and human race back from the brink of extinction.This small lone and lonely woman surviving the hordes of dead yet able to stay a step ahead because of hard learned lessons is the beginning of a great adventure. One can only imagine what she is going through as she carries the fight against thousands in a very intelligent and methodical way. Her journey is one that will get you thinking and wonder if maybe you would have the courage or even the will to continue to survive in a world gone mad. Yet survive she does. And while the first half of the book is about her and how she has managed to survive the second half does not disappoint as other survivors chance upon her. It is the lessons she imparts upon them that sparks the beginning of hope and the initial rise of humanity against the dead. To say this book was a pleasure to read is not giving it enough credit.May is a wonderful character and the author weaves a sad and lonely tale around this woman who survives at any cost. He also tells a tale of courage, perseverance and survival although I think he should have developed the secondary characters a bit more. It still works. I don't care for trilogies too much because I feel it is just a way to continue to sell books when many an author has nothing more to say and try to weave too many characters and plots that should end with the first book. In this case, I was sincerely sorry this book did not have a second and even third installment. May is the kind of character you would love to follow as she travels the country in her lonely and very effective war against the dead.Maybe the author will one day see fit to give us more tales of May and her trials and tribulations against a world that has lost all hope..until May arrives.