S. Lyme H. (Lyme) reviewed on + 6 more book reviews
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Not sure why this has such a high rating, because I thought it was pretty terrible. Essentially a zombie apocalypse book following three survivors over the two weeks after it happened. The characters are all pretty one dimensional: Guy 1 is grieving over the loss of his wife and child, Guy 2 is kind of a loner who 'takes charge', Girl is a medical student - these are their defining characteristics and we don't really learn much else about them. They bicker constantly, to the point of making each and every character unlikeable.
And boy, are they dumb. Almost all the drama in the book comes from them making terrible decisions. Example: 5 zombies in the parking lot of a grocery store? Let's avoid them by... ramming our van though the glass doors of the store! Surely *that* won't draw the zombies who are drawn by loud noises... and then of course the three 'heroes' are promptly swamped by dozens of zombies. What's worse is this little bit of plot device is used twice in the book.
After reading this, it's hard to believe that this book got the following that the introduction claims had when it was published in totality for free on the Internet (how come I never heard of it, then?). It's not surprising at all that it took 10 years to be published, though.
One of the reviews on the cover calls it one of the best/scariest survival horror stories since Matheson's I Am Legend. Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree. Not only that, the book isn't particularily scary, intense, or innovative (you can see every 'twist' coming a mile away), but all the characters will annoy you and leave your eyes rolling. At least it was a quick read.
And boy, are they dumb. Almost all the drama in the book comes from them making terrible decisions. Example: 5 zombies in the parking lot of a grocery store? Let's avoid them by... ramming our van though the glass doors of the store! Surely *that* won't draw the zombies who are drawn by loud noises... and then of course the three 'heroes' are promptly swamped by dozens of zombies. What's worse is this little bit of plot device is used twice in the book.
After reading this, it's hard to believe that this book got the following that the introduction claims had when it was published in totality for free on the Internet (how come I never heard of it, then?). It's not surprising at all that it took 10 years to be published, though.
One of the reviews on the cover calls it one of the best/scariest survival horror stories since Matheson's I Am Legend. Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree. Not only that, the book isn't particularily scary, intense, or innovative (you can see every 'twist' coming a mile away), but all the characters will annoy you and leave your eyes rolling. At least it was a quick read.
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