Zombie Fallout Volume One by Mark Tufo

I have been reading quite a bit of post-apocalyptic fiction of late, some of which involves zombies destroying humanity, so it becomes difficult for a novel or series to stand out from the pack. This is even moreso when you add in television shows and movies. Zombie Fallout takes place immediately after the government lets loose a cure for H1N1, which unwittingly destroys much of the human race. The main character is Mike Talbot, a former marine and father of three, who is a bit unhinged at times and often falls back on sarcasm and wiseass remarks. After getting back his son and daughter, they hunker down in his housing development, where they have created a wall to keep out the zombies. However, Mike knows it’s only a matter of time before things collapse and the zombies come in.



The writing style is pretty easy going and the novel moves quickly. I thought there were more issues grammatically and stylistically than I would have liked to have seen and it could use some stronger editing. The characters were fairly well developed. One thing that distinguishes this novel is that there seems to be a sort of supernatural element to it, both in the character of Tommy, a huge teen who has premonitions of the future and the zombie, Eliza. The problem was that so much of the novel has no supernatural component that these things stick out. So, I wasn’t quite sure where the author was going with it, and in this novel, these issues weren’t fully resolved. I’ll be interested in seeing in what direction it goes in future novels. All together, this was a fun novel that I would recommend.