Poor Maggie is a normal
Mum and housewife who tries to ensure the safety and care of her family, then
she must witness their harsh deaths and change into the undead, and so begins
the plague.
Dana Fredsti has a real
down to earth, tongue in cheek humour in her writing that I couldn’t help giggling
at even with the grossest of subjects spewing out at me.
DF is clever in her
explanation of why our heroine misses her fatal flu bug jab, and this route of
infection is often, but never directly, implicated.
Totally love Ashley;
she has depth and a reality charm to her. Finally some needs to piddle during
the zompoc!!!
The other characters
are plausible if a little cliché but then this is fiction, zombie apocalyptic
fiction, and needs its main stay characters! But DF puts her own little
feminine swing on them.
Professor Simone
Fraser, the kick ass matriarch with a secret past that knows all about
pandemics. Gabriel the totally gorgeous
military dude with another secret! Nathan the secret loner/ex-military/extreme survivor
was, for me, fantastic. His way of living is how I spend my day dreams
planning. All I will say about general
Heald is what an asshat! You have to have a character you love to hate.
I enjoyed the little interspersed zombie PoVs
it really added a different dimension, and brought a quality to it which I thought
made the zompoc “human” and not just some throwaway function for gore, splatter
and horror. DF made her victims real.
The little geek killing
squad are some eclectic characters and I really started to bond with them, so I
hope that the next book gives a bit more history on them or at the very least
expands their relationships with each other more.
The secret society
element and historical explanations were unique (to me) and I thought a really
good edge and underpinning storyline, so I hope this continues to further books
in the series.
Finally a zombie writer
that likes, no LOVES cats!! Go to the top of fav’ author list! Yes I’m fickle.
The movie references
were far from out of date, soon to be forgotten pop culture references as suggested
by other reviews. I found that the movies quoted fit with the story line, gave
a good grin and are actually now classic movies, not mere whims of the author
and flashes of her (factual) past.
Focusing on a small
town gave it an intimate feel which changed dramatically with the ending and
gave a brilliant cliff hanger and total jaw dropper moment – glad there is the
next book (Plague Nation) to jump straight into (although compared to other
indie authors I do find the price a little high, but possibly worth it).
I should probably not
comment about the female author and her excellent weaponry knowledge and fight
sequences but I will. She does not over egg but allows for enough information
to be interesting without boring me to death with ammo knowledge. Her real life
is an amazing adventure according to her bio’ and this shines through with her
brilliant descriptions of sword play and choice of weapons.
Over all I really
enjoyed the protagonist being a feisty woman, not many authors go that way but
personally I think woman are better equipped at surviving mentally and
physically, if only our need for cuddles and sex didn’t get in the way! But this
is fiction and supposed to be fun and escapism.
DF certainly ensures
you get your giggles with your gore in this novel. Make sure you check out her novella
“Mans Gotta Eat”, which introduced me to this talented
author.
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