This book was fun to read. Moreso than many of the other zombie books I have read recently as I have gotten more and more into this genre. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed most of the stories I have read, but this one just hit me the right way I guess. I like the narative approach. It is certainly not something I want with all my books-a "Dear Diary" route, but it works quite well here. It gives the author a lot of latitude with how the story flows and even the grammar, etc. After all, this is a story that is being told by someone in a very high pressure and terrifying situation. I wouldn't expect him to be a master literary artist in telling his tale.

Using this device is perhaps limiting in that you get no other perspective, no real sense of some of the other characters and what they are going through outside of the eyes of the correspondent, but we all live our lives seeing things exlusively through our own eyes. We can attempt to "empathize" with others but in the end, it is all shaded by our own experiences and biases. So we see what this character sees and only that, shaded by his experiences and biases alone. It is one persons view and one person's reality. It keeps it clean and concise, which I felt worked really well for this story.

I guess I also like the fact that the book is so personal and is not overly grand in scale. Just a guy who hooks up with some other folks trying to survive and is doing the best he can. It seems to be comparable to Walking Dead series in that regard. Given that there is to be a sequel, I am looking forward to it as much as I am Volume 5 of the other series.

I like the common sense of this character. So many stories about zombies center around the arrogance of mankind; how foolish we are. We watch a tale unfold and we end up siding with the zombies because so many of the characters in a movie or book are just plain dumb, clueless, or show how evil they really are. The stories usually can claim that we deserve a grizzly fate due to our failings and our general lack of concern for the terrible things we do as a society and as a race. I am not opposed to morality tales, in fact I think that zombies serve that purpose tremendously well. Romero has done a wonderful job of making each of his movies a very inciteful social commentary on our culture and what he believes is wrong with it. But sometimes, you just like to see the humans actually behave with a bit of sense and succeed in avoiding becoming lunch meat for the undead. Go humans!!!

A fun and quick read that I recommend for anyone wanting a enjoyable story in the zombiverse.