Review: I had my doubts...but was won over.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2013
Zombie RunAmucks are just not high on my to do list when looking for my next "must read".  I try to read some classics, some best-sellers, local writers, historians, and everything by a handful of favorite writers I have met or gotten to know in other ways.  SciFi is rarely me.  I get Orson Scott Card's stuff because he's local, you can ask him questions in the carpool line at school and he doesn't treat you like a dink...and he is descriptive.This story hit on my high points...avoid excessive blood and guts.  My imaginationation fills in the empty places well enough, thank you.  Assume communications will be less than perfect.  I hate these weather people who must be beachfront for a category 5 hurricaine making shore.  Uh...It will be wet, windy, above normal high tides, stuff will be flooded and utilities are expected to fail.  Get to higher grounds with more evacuation routes, access to medical centers and backup plans for these events.  Don't fly a kite on the outerbanks where you need a MILESLong bridge or Coast Guard run Ferries to get you on/off that strip of sandbar...when you know bad stuff is headed in.Props for a love story/family caring...instead of brutality being the main course.  This brought back memories of tracking family on 9/11.  My church lost a flight attendant in PA.  My sister had been at meetings in the Pentagon that week.  My best friend lived in a commuterberg for many in NYC.  I attended her close knit church on visits North.  It was days before we knew travelling coworkers were safe, and weeks before we knew how we could help the faith community of this small town.  Our characters are too fresh to their pain for these questions to even hit them yet...Much less where does that sports career playout now.I really was drawn in and look forward to more.