Review: Equal Parts Hilarious and Horrifying
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2013
Just when you think everything has been written about the Zombie Apocalypse, a little gem like this shows up.  Our narrator is a chubby computer geek who decides to ride out the ZA with his much more practical wife, Ruth Ann, in their custom built concrete castle.  I laughed out loud at some of the comments about his series of battles with the Homeowners Association, and I cringed at the descriptions of what a zombie horde in the millions might look like as the mass moves through a neighborhood.The book is more than a horror story, though.  The protagonist starts as a mean-spirited Silicon Valley jerk but by the end he regains his humanity as so many around him are losing theirs.  Thanks to his computing skills and the datacenter in his basement, he manages to aid the remaining government forces and society in a number of innovative ways and makes their home, codenamed Christmas Tree, into an important node in the battle against the walking dead.This is a fresh look at how the survivors might be forced to do battle with the millions of undead, and I just hope we see another book from this interesting author.