Living with the Dead: With Spring Comes the Fall

Living with the Dead: With Spring Comes the Fall by Joshua Guess

Joshua Guess 2010

ASIN: B004A14V7S

Available in e-book

 

The worst scenario in a zombie apocalypse: a.zombie's incessantly pounding at every entrance trying to eat your vital organs b.unending fear of your inevitable death or c.having to slice into the brain of the walking undead? Your answer would be wrong. Don't answer that question. Although all of those fears are truly horrific, nothing could be worse than having to fight, maim and kill your fellow human survivors for the right to live.

 

Josh is a die hard (sorry pun intended) zombie fanatic. He has read all the survival guides and watched every zombie movie made. When the epidemic started in Cincinnati, he was one of the only ones who saw it for what it was. Hell on here had arrived. For many people it ended quickly. For others, the term quickly was no longer applicable to them; they had been transformed into mindless zombies. Josh and his wife Jess had fortified their home and laid in wait for what they new was coming.

 

Scavenging, farming, killing, and back breaking labor is all josh and the collection of apocalypse survivors had to look forward to. When they thought they had moved forward at all, they ran into murderers, thieves, rapists, and cannibals. Then came the smarties, and we are not talking about a group of tasty treats….

 

This book wasn't all I was hoping for. I had read some great reviews and it came highly recommended, but parts of this book just stretched on and on. I loved the blog style writing to the book, and I know that the author tried to make it as authentic as possible, but I really think the repeating of certain things was, by definition, redundant. It made it hard in spots to continue to read.

 

The parts of the book that made me want to keep reading were often times glossed over because the blogger, Josh, was too worked up, stressed out, or distraught by the happenings. Zombies existed in this book that is titled "Living with the Dead", but the book itself really glosses over the zombie parts quite a bit until you learn of what becomes of these zombies. It captures your attention at the end, but for some, they may not have made it that far. So practice your patience, get out your zombie survival guide and prepare for the apocalypse…