Review: I'M SURPRISED I FINISHED IT.....
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 16, 2012
Well, at least it's only .99 cents now. That's still a ripoff. I think I paid $4 for it when it first release, so for a buck it might be worth it to you. But first let me dissaude you.... There are multiple problems I have with this novel. Some quite profound. I'll number them, like a list.1. THE PLOT OF THE STORY - This literally has to be the silliest and stupidest idea for a story I've ever heard. After a plague strikes(actually it hits all of America but Seattle is ground zero) a man's hometown of Seattle, his wife and son are killed by a zombie(this was a person he knew in life) and this man(our main protagonist) decides to seek revenge against this zombie. Yep. That's the whole point of the story; him to travel across country(Chicago to San Fran by plane and on foot from there to Seattle) to kill one zombie out of vengeance! That is absurd. Why bother? The zombie is a mindless being. I could maybe understand if you just happened to randomly encounter it along the way and say what the crap, let's kill just for the sake of killing it. But going out of your way, risking life and limb, all for something so retarded as vengeance against a mindless shambling zombie. I could see this happening if the main character was insane/mad, but in this novel he wasn't. And btw, the synopsis for the book says nothing about seeking vengeance against a 'cough' zombie or I would have skipped this badboy and save $4 smackers.2. TYPOS - It seemed liked the first half was worse than the second half, but that could be a result of me doing so serious skimming of pages in the second half. I mean really people why release a professional publication if you're not going to spellcheck. It gets tiresome and ridiculous after a while. There's nothing worse than to be totally engrossed in a story and then be pulled out of it by glaring typos. I hate to sound brash, but there's really no excuse. If I can catch that many on an initial read, then someone is asleep at the wheel.3. REALLY DUMB SCENES THAT ARE NOT LOGICAL - One scene in particular really chaps me. When the main character is in Seattle and he opens a storage container and finds civilian zombies(zombies are called droolers in the book) had been locked up in by who he thinks is a commander/captain of the military whom he had met up with earlier. This main character thinks this is unfair for civilian zombies to be locked up because the commander didn't do that to his fellow military people. That's ridiculous! What does it matter? These are mindless shambling zombies who have no higher brain power. They have no feelings nor is there anything inhumane about it. Why get so upset about it? Give me a break. There are scenes like this in several locations and this is just one example. If I had more time and space and I'd spill some more beans.4. BORING - If you like narrative, then you are really going to dig this. There is literally a stretch of about 1000 locations(which is 25% of the book) in the second half where it is 99.9% narrative(by that I mean the narrator does all the talking to the reader) and there is about maybe the equivalent of 3 or 4 kindle pages of character dialogue. It's basically just the main character escaping from one implausible zombie scene after another and it goes on for a long time. Very boring. I mean seriously. How much of that can you take? I like a little dialogue from time to time. In fact, in the second half there is very little character interaction/dialogue spoken, except towards the end.5. THE ENDING - Oh goodness. It was bad. Really realy bad. I won't say much about it in case you haven't been dissauded from buying this crapfest yet. Let me put it this way: It is one of the top 5 worst endings I've ever read and I've been reading a long time.This novel is a serious stinker and I say avoid it at all cost, even at .99 cents. But some may what to give it a try. However, I'd wait until the price hits zero. How did this one ever get published? Oh, wait, I know. It's called self publishing. Bad idea all around. This would should have been scrapped from the get go. I say, unless you're really desperate for a zombie novel, then avoid this one like it was a plague zone.