Review: If you are a fan of Jesse Petersen's zombie infested world you'll enjoy this
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2011
I've read and enjoyed Married with Zombies and Flip This Zombie, so when I saw this anthology by Jesse Petersen I knew I had to have it. There are 9 short stories in this short anthology, all of them set at the beginning of, or during, the zombie apocalypse, but it shows what happened from the viewpoint of characters other then the ones in the author's main trilogy. None of these characters appears in the main trilogy, so this can be read independently, but I would recommend at least reading Married With Zombies first so that you are familiar with the world building. I didn't miss Sarah and David from the main trilogy at all, and the tone of these stories was not snarky the way Sarah's narration from the main trilogy is. I thought the anthology was a great idea to flesh out this world and I'd love to read more stories or to see some of these expanded. Some of the stories are hopeful, some are not, but the only thing I disliked about the collection as a whole was that the last story was one of the not hopeful ones and I wish it had ended with something else instead. I'd highly recommend it to fans of the series, and it's a great bargain for $0.99.