Review: Good story, but not without faults
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2012
Overall, this was a decent read with likeable characters and interesting zombies. However I did have some issues with it, some minor and some major.There are a decent amount of grammatical errors. Not quite as many as I've seen in some other self published books, but definitely enough to be pretty noticeable. I do tend to be somewhat of a stickler for this, so it's entirely possible it only stands out so much to me. I still feel it's important to mention in a review, though. Some of the mistakes were small, like the occasional missing comma here or there. But there were many instances of skipped words, improper punctuation and the like.Something I had difficulty getting over was the constant switching of viewpoints. I feel this story could have been much better if it was told through three, four or maybe even five characters. Instead, the author chose to go back and forth between characters, with very little to separate the story lines. In one instance, the point of view started with one character and switched to another in the same paragraph. I found this more than a little confusing, especially in the beginning. Had the story been told by fewer people/animals, I think the readers would have been able to better identify with the main characters and it would have seemed slightly less tedious. I counted upwards of twenty different viewpoints. Because of this, many of the side characters seemed like they had too much significance placed on them and I feel some of them could have been written out entirely and the book would have been much better, with a faster pace that would have kept me on the edge of my seat.There were a few instances where the characters mulled over previous events near the beginning of the book that were confusing. I wish the author had made it more clear what was past and what was present, perhaps by using italics. This wasn't a very big deal, but would have been an improvement, in my opinion.I also found a few characters to be terribly cliche, and I spotted a romance the second one of the characters was introduced. It's something that happens a lot in these kinds of books, so it's relatively easy to get past, but it does irk me and I can't imagine I'm alone in that.All in all, a good read that could be greatly improved if the author could cut it down and edit some more. Quality over quantity.