Review: Nice try but.....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2011
I was disappointed in this book. So, I gave it three stars for average. The main problem is the character development. The author kills them off so fast you never really get to know them and have very little sympathy for them when they get killed. That goes for the bad guys as well. The baddest of which is apparently a serial killer or rapist but his character, while it could have really added to the story as a subplot (running from zombies and/with a psychopath) is not developed and the killings come totally out of left field.The story also jumps around a bit too suddenly. For instance we are taken from the zombie attacks to a secret lab in the hills of West Virginia and suddenly introduced to a new character. But how did she get there? Who is she, does she have a family, why was she selected to work in the lab?Then there is the gore. I know zombie books are supposed to have gore, that's one of the reasons I read them. But when it is repeated over and over again it gets boring. Zombies walking, trailing their intestines really only needs to be done once.I also took some star power away for believability. I know, expecting believability in zombie book is asking a lot. But to have corpses rise from the grave, without explanation, no matter how long or how deep they were buried really is a stretch. I mean does everyone who ever lived suddenly come back as a zombie? Then the discovery that the zombies are actually speaking, just pronouncing the words backwards. Maybe some of the "gore" was from Tipper? I was relieved to find that I had not been duped into reading some evangelical nonsense.Finally, there is the editing. Please someone help this author (and too many others) with the differences between, their, there, they're, no, know, to and too. There is one chapter that suddenly changes voice from past tense to present tense and then back to past tense, leaving the reader with a "Huh?" moment. The ending indicates there will be a sequel. There has to be since the reader is left hanging.The upside is the description of the action. I thought this was well done and the book is fast paced. The  author does know how to make you turn the pages. I didn't mean to trash the book. I liked it in spite of the flaws. It is worth the cost and still worth reading.