Review: Excellent zombie book, get it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2011
This book was great and makes my top ten.  Keep in mind I read a lot of zombie books. (over a hundred and counting from Amazon)  One of the things I especially liked about this book is that it is about four times longer than you average zombie book.  I love an author who takes the time to write a detailed book.  I feel like with most books, by the time I get good and absorbed into a storyline, it ends.  I guarantee, most authors would have broken this down into three and called it a "trilogy".  The author also writes great detailed descriptions of battles fought on a large scale, like when a large military unit engages a large zombies group. I can't tell you how many stories I have read skip a large battle description over and simple say something like "the military could not hold them back and the city fell."  I used to like the details of battles in Clancy novels when I read them and I am glad to see them well described here to.  I like knowing the strategy and blow by blow of an engagement.The book has a great storyline and is well written.  Yes, there are the occasional misuse of words like "weather"  and "bye".  I suppose spell check can't do everything.  I don't mind that in a book.  I don't think it takes away from the story from my point of view.  I know some of you out there can't stand it.  My only criticism is the frequent use of the "f" word. In fact, given the nickname of the zombies the word  appears on just about EVERY page.  In my opinion this book could appeal to a wider audience if the nickname of the zombies was changed to something else in the next revision.  That is the beauty of e-books.  Overall, an outstanding book and I can't wait to read the next one.Spoilers Spoilers SpoilersIf you don't want to know about the storyline stop reading! For those who like to know what a book is about before you get it (like me) here is a brief summary.  Wow, where do I begin?  This book has zombies, aliens and occultists in a three way tug of war for dominion of earth.  At first glance, this sounds like to much to squeeze into a book, however, the author wove the interconnected adversaries together in an excellent way.The story starts out with your standard zombie apocalypse, well written and fun to read.  We find out much later that aliens are responsible for the zombies in an attempt to soften up the earth for invasion.  They can even control the zombies if the aliens are near the zombies.  It makes for a deadly combination.  I have the zombies as part of the three way struggle even though they technically "work" for the aliens, because, when the aliens are not around (which is most of the time) they are your traditional zombies and just want to eat everybody and have no agenda.The occultists come in as another group who are aware of the aliens and are trying to take over the world for themselves.  I can't say enough that this is an excellent storyline with the aliens and the occultists being "behind the scenes" pulling strings in an attempt to have things go their way.  Towards the end of the book when the three groups and our surviving band of humans come together it makes for a great suspenseful time.  I could not tell what was going to happen and who was going to do what to whom.Now with that said some of you hardcore zombie purists will not like some of the zombies in the book.  There are some, so called superzombies, that are hard to kill and shoot guns.  I don't mind them in the book for several reasons.  First, they are not that intelligent and even though they can shoot guns and yes, briefly drive a tank, they are simply hell bent on destroying humans, no intelligence other than what I said.  Second, they don't talk or express themselves. They don't sit down together and have a cup of coffee discussing how hard of a day they had at work.  Third, there are so few of them around that their sudden appearance in battle adds to the excitement of the moment.  If you are not bothered by that, than this is the book for you.