Review: Interesting, BUT frustrating.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2012
Overall, this little story of impending apocalypse is well written and engaging... to a point. Somebody needs to tell the author that reading three page chapters, each one ending in a cliffhanger that is resolved by turning the page and starting the next three page chapter, gets really, REALLY annoying after about chapter ten. The characters are interesting but the plot, which revolves around people who apparently become homicidal maniacs after consuming contaminated beef, and I say apparently because the brevity of the book-- novella, really-- and of the chapters, doesn't seem to much lend itself to a decent or very detailed explanation. The author would have been much better off to eliminate half of the artificial chapter ending cliffhangers, which only serve to chop up the narrative flow, and just tell the tale in a full, book length format. Ultimately, the readers would have been much better served by that as well. I sense that there's a really good book in here yearning to get out, but it needs a decent editor to help mold it into what it could be.