4.5/5 Eggs
After reading the snippet of this book provided on Amazon, on a break at work, I knew I just had to buy it. Told in first person, the heroine (Serena Rouge) is the bad-ass that every woman should be able to relate to. I've always been a huge fan of kick-butt females, that shoot first and ask questions later and of interesting zombie tales, so this was a huge win-win for me!
What knocked it down half an egg for me, was that the way the zombies came to life and how it was explained wasn't very clear in the beginning of the novel. It was like it was very quickly explained so the reader had some idea what was going on, but it seemed a bit muddled. Having the virus relate to something that the real world deals with, threw me for a loop. (And not initially in a good way.) Since it wasn't explained very well it left me very confused. Later on in the story it is explained better though. Since most zombie tales happen in a world where pop culturally "zombies" don't exist, (thus they end up calling them things like, undead, walkers, living dead, etc. ) it threw me off the narrative of the story when the virus was a mutated form of something that exists in real life.
At an Amazon estimate of 249 pages, and selling for $2.99 currently on Amazon, this book is a steal. I found myself reading it on all my breaks, and at night a little too late in the evening before having to put it down. It is action packed from beginning to end, and if the explanation of the zombie virus confuses any readers, I recommend to just keep reading as the story gets much-much better from there. It seems that the book was left open for sequels, and I would definitely buy the next in the series to see what was going on in Serena's world. She is an interesting character, and the way she looks at things is greatly entertaining.
~H.C.
After reading the snippet of this book provided on Amazon, on a break at work, I knew I just had to buy it. Told in first person, the heroine (Serena Rouge) is the bad-ass that every woman should be able to relate to. I've always been a huge fan of kick-butt females, that shoot first and ask questions later and of interesting zombie tales, so this was a huge win-win for me!
What knocked it down half an egg for me, was that the way the zombies came to life and how it was explained wasn't very clear in the beginning of the novel. It was like it was very quickly explained so the reader had some idea what was going on, but it seemed a bit muddled. Having the virus relate to something that the real world deals with, threw me for a loop. (And not initially in a good way.) Since it wasn't explained very well it left me very confused. Later on in the story it is explained better though. Since most zombie tales happen in a world where pop culturally "zombies" don't exist, (thus they end up calling them things like, undead, walkers, living dead, etc. ) it threw me off the narrative of the story when the virus was a mutated form of something that exists in real life.
At an Amazon estimate of 249 pages, and selling for $2.99 currently on Amazon, this book is a steal. I found myself reading it on all my breaks, and at night a little too late in the evening before having to put it down. It is action packed from beginning to end, and if the explanation of the zombie virus confuses any readers, I recommend to just keep reading as the story gets much-much better from there. It seems that the book was left open for sequels, and I would definitely buy the next in the series to see what was going on in Serena's world. She is an interesting character, and the way she looks at things is greatly entertaining.
~H.C.