Review: Each "Episode" improves greatly on the earlier entries.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
I've noticed that many of the 1 or 2 star reviews for this product are from people that gave up after reading partway through the tale. I can understand and respect that. If you check over at the product page for Episode 1 you will find my own 1 star review for it and I'm not one to trash someones writing efforts. I'm just grateful that I didn't quit and decided to stick with it. I got episode 1 as a freebie and picked up the rest of season 1 as a Kindle special that made it cheaper by far than buying the individual pieces. I found episode 1 to be confusing, and cluttered with way too many character introductions. It was almost impossible for me to keep track of the various goings on because of the authors' tendency to jump from one group of characters to another for chapters at a time.HOWEVEREpisode 2 was when things started to make sense. People began coming together so the gaps between chapters involving sets of characters began coming together and easier to keep track of as things went on. The creatures, although never identified as zombies manifested enough similar behavior that they may as well have been extras from the Walking Dead (one bite and you're infected/doomed etc) so even without full explanation their activities became understandable. In short, questions and answers started to have at least a nodding acquaintance with one another.The remaining 3 episodes went by in a rapid blur because I quite frankly couldn't put my Kindle down. I didn't so much read the rest as I INHALED the thing. I'm now halfway through the second season omnibus and it still keeps getting better. I would suggest that ANYONE that gave up on this series early go back and give it another try. Not only will you understand a bit better why people compare the quality of the narrative with books like "The Stand" you may find yourself drawing similar comparisons. It could be that such an effort represents too much work to you. I understand that, but believe me, it's your loss. I've already invested the money to purchase everything these guys have written to date and eagerly look forward to the time I'll spend enjoying their full catalog of tales.You will quickly find that you can do a lot worse than this omnibus. I believe you will also find that it will be exceedingly difficult to find much better. This truly surprised me considering the very poorly written first episode, but this is among the best "independent" works I've read in the past 2 years.