Review: Fast Paced Zombie Slasher Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
This type of story is meant to just be fun. No, you wont learn any useful zombie survival tips from this one, but you will probably be entertained by the idea of a 15 year old Japanese schoolgirl wielding a samurai sword and hacking zombies apart. Like I said, a fun read.For a story of short length the main character is fully fleshed out, something I appreciate as many short stories lack character development. I also liked the inclusion of the viral video element of the story.There were a few things I didn't like. Mainly, the deus ex machina style ending. Plus, overall, I had a sense that things went way to easy for a 15 year old girl with a sword slashing her way through hordes of the undead. She could take on big group of them, and one sentence later she is standing in a pile of dismembered zombies.Despite this I still found this to be an enjoyable read. Better than many of the zombie tales out there (even just for the fact that it has a non-traditional female protagonist,) I recommend this story to fans of the zombie genre as well as casual readers who enjoy the idea of a 15 year old girl becoming a modern samurai amidst the zombie apocalypse.