Review: One of my favorite zombie novels
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2013
As stated above, this is one of my favorite zombie novels.  This is actually my second read-through (I'd just bought the second book and wanted to refamiliarize myself with the first), and I realized after I was done that I had forgotten to write a review for it, and it deserves one.  The writing is solid, the characters are engaging and, more than anything else, there's a ring of plausibility to it.  One of the most common tropes of the zombie genre is that you don't know what has caused the dead to rise -- the theory being that the "why" isn't really important, it's what happens afterwards that is.  What Cordyceps manages to do, however, is base itself in enough real science to be scary as hell.  So many zombie novels turn into just a guide to survive the apocalypse, and they forget to let you get invested in the characters (likely because they want you to think no one is safe), but I've found that if you don't give the reader something to get invested in you run the risk of the book being really forgettable.  Cole and Shelley don't really allow you to do that, I found myself rooting for them the whole way through.  If you like the zombie genre, this book should definitely be on your reading list.