Review: Looking forward to the next one
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2012
The First Zombies - Book One of the Dead Awakening has a fun beginning with the reader thinking they were thrown into the middle of a story with no background than all of a sudden the TV says "You are dead."  That's right our Hero David is a college student who loves playing Zombie Video games. He is stuck with his roommate Mark's girlfriend Gina waiting for Mark to come home from "Studying in the Library."  Mark arrives home and orders pizza and that is when the story really starts going with the dead walking the streets.The Author Josh Atkins paints a very simple yet fun beginning to the Zombie outbreak.  The First Zombie is a quick read of around 8,000 words but in those 33 pages you meet several different characters that have you worried who will die and who will survive.  Like all Zombie story there is an outbreak, this time it is a mutation of rabies and if you are bit you become one.  The First Zombie story takes a page right out of the show Walking Dead with the nail biting moments and amazing imagery that makes the reader sick to their stomachs.The author Josh Atkins short story has the reader desiring to know what happens next.  I personally hope the author can create a new twist on the zombie story that give the reader a new look at an old and sometimes over used genres with his next short story.