Review: The Perfect Ending Sealed the Fifth Star!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2012
First, the bad.There are obviously formatting errors. The mention of the tense problems seem like a formatting issue to me, since it is very common throughout the book for the "ed" to be missing from places it should be in and added in places it should not be. This bothers people to different degrees, but I got used to it early on and just auto-corrected in my head.Second, the good.The story starts believably and with a character that I didn't necessarily "like" too much right away but I grew to understand and respect. I think that's important and you can see where the main character is going and what he's trying to be/do and WHY.The support cast is great with some good ideas played up well and most of the characters get to have decent depth for support roles. In general I think the mix of survivors in the group is really important and even if some are more or less likable or more or less effective, none of them are saddled with perfection of utter vilification.I found myself really enjoying and believing the action scenes and love that the main character actively works through ideas from zombie films in order to asses the situation and react. A lot of writers act like people have never learned anything from the long history of zombie fiction in mainstream society.I read through the story fast and was really liking it and thinking it was a very solid four stars the whole time. Then I came to the ending and it sealed the fifth. It's hard to come up with anything resembling an original ending to a zombie story, but I really enjoyed this one and actually found it refreshingly inspiring. The epilogue is also good and comical too.I highly suggest this for all zombie fans and those who are zombie curious or general horror fans. I'm Reading another of his works right now and love the Primrose Court Apartment stories. If anything is holding you back from picking this up, purchase the Apartment 205 story for a mere 99 cents to get an idea for his writing and a three or four chapter sample of this novel(the sample is in all three Apartment stories - I just liked 205 the best and suggest it as the start and then going up the apartment building in order 205, 305, 502, but I'm sure others would have differing recommendations on best reading order).Awesome zombie tale!Oh yeah, the zombies in this book are for the most part, traditional Romero zombies, but the insights and additions made by the writer were really well done and also help to update the classic model a bit.