Review: Decent Zombie romp
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2012
Not sure I could be as grounded as Nathan if a dead friend shows up at my door, especially since I read zombie books.  It would be attack first and listen later.  Or in my case, go into a catatonic freakout.The book stepped out a bit from the normal virus and use a supernatural/alien? concept to explain how a zombie apocalypse can occur quickly worldwide.  I appreciate this as it usually makes no sense as to how the world can end so dramatically in most apocalypse books.Pros:  Good writing and decent plot line.  Descriptions by the author are well drawn out and the fighting/survival tactics are realistic and reasonable.  The teenagers reactions are typical of how normal kids would react.  The author's experience with teaching school helped with this.  There weren't any glaring deux ex machina devices to move the plot along.  The length of the book is decent vs. other zombie "books" that are basically a few chapters.Cons:  The book desperately needs an editor and some proofreading.  The grammar is good but there were a few proofreading mistakes.  The major problem is with the characters mix up.  The author constantly mixed up his various characters, Jessie & Trina and Nathan & Jeremy.  This was incredibly irritating as the point of view or action was being assigned to the wrong character. i.e. when Trina started a worry monologue about her brother, Nathan - they weren't related.A rollicking good tale would screech to a grinding halt as you, the reader, try to figure out what is going on and who is actually talking.  This would happen for a good two paragraphs each time.  I would recommend getting an editor and fixing those issues.  Other reviewers tend to downgrade dramatically for such basic errors.If you like zombies, it's still a decent buy.  Just keep in mind that the focus is on young adults so the perspective will be on the teenagers.  It's still a fun story.