Review: not your typical zombie novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2013
While titled "The Zombies," there are very few. This is not your average end of the world zombie novel, but it is a great book.It focuses on the lives of several teens as they deal with the usual problems, while a contagious infection slowly spreads thru the country.Though the characters are teens, I didn't dismiss it as a teen novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it.There is a strong undercurrent of social commentary running through this book. The virus that infects people will eventually turn them into "zombies" if not caught soon enough and treated. I put the word "zombies" in parenthesies because it is the equivalent of a racial slur in this book. There is a lot of correlation to AIDS and the issue of ones privacy of his or her medical records.Anyway, those that are positive for the virus are required to have a tattoo on their neck identifying them as infected, which leads to all sorts of discrimination. And there is also a militia group running amok "relocating" and killing the infected.I can't wait for the third installation of this series. The characters are so well thought out that I'm surprised a publishing company hasn't snapped it up..