Well as i Reviewed the First book "Plague of the Dead" i felt like that book was lacking and it didn't keep my interest as i thought it might..but i read the second one anyway; "Thunder and ashes". I have to say i definitely enjoyed this book much better than the first i thought that the first book was a lot of explaining and people fighting other people and little Z action, However the second book has a really great mix of both People and Zombie action. I enjoyed how they ran into other people and sometimes they were friendly and sometimes they weren't. and i also liked how the setting was changing because they were on the road compared to the first one where the first few chapters they were on a boat ( like so many other zombie novels)I also enjoyed that it switched from dimallio's story line to sherman's. HOWEVER, there is a little third story line that the author adds in at the very end of the book, which i didn't understand why he did that all, it was frusting because 3/4 the way through the book he added another group of people on the way to Omaha and i was like WTF, Who the f are they and why should i care!! but then your questions are answered in the epilogue...which i think he should have done the whole little extra thing in the epilogue.