Review: Fun horror read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2013
I really enjoyed this book and I'm not a huge zombie fan (though my husband is). I believe those who are zombie fans could really like this story. There are a lot of good disgusting descriptions of death, various forms of undead, and injuries on (live) people. There are some good people and there are some people you hope you would never meet either because of their stupidity or downright meanness as characters in this book. I like that not everyone is a great shot with a gun, a fantastic hero-type, all goody-goody nicey-nicey because LIFE isn't like that and PEOPLE aren't like that. The events that take place in this story are believable and that just might scare some people.The characters and how they interact are written well. It was interesting the author had written the story from several different viewpoints. It was mainly from the viewpoint of Josey - somewhere around half the book or so is written from Josey's viewpoint and the rest is from several other viewpoints or things happening. What I thought was different was when the author wrote from the viewpoint of an animal - like a rabbit, a rattlesnake, Boris the dog or Cha-ka the monkey. That didn't happen a lot but it was different. I enjoyed the interactions between the characters. Most of the time, people weren't very welcoming and many times there are mistakes of live people thinking another live person is one of the undead. People were brave and they were scared and they felt like none of this can be real because it only happens in movies and videos games - all quite believable reactions. The only very small part (near the end) that I felt was a bit unbelievable was a [slight spoiler] budding romance between Maria and Josey. Though I always think things like that shouldn't belong in books such as this. There wasn't a lot of mushiness on that front and I figure Maria must have initially been suffering from hero syndrome. Josey's just a man who was lonely and probably quite horny.I do want to note two things that have nothing to do with the writing and more to do with the formatting of the book: #1 other reviews mention grammatical and spelling errors. These have been fixed by the author and I did not notice any on my read (purchased in Dec 2012).  #2 it was sometimes difficult to know when there was a character viewpoint shift. In many areas there were larger than normal spaces between paragraphs usually when the character viewpoint was going to change (good indication to the reader) but there are some areas where the character viewpoint remains and the spaces are there or the larger space between paragraphs is simply not there at all. Not a huge deal but something worth noting for those readers who perhaps have a difficult time when there is a character viewpoint shift.