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Zombies in My Hometown
All Joe wants to do is go fishing. Little does he know that three days later, he'll be leading a ragtag group of survivors through a zombie infested town. Things will certainly get a tad discombobulated in Central Ohio. A mortician's skin treatment has done its job a little too well. Aunt Millie makes a miraculous recovery. The funeral turns out a little like weddings do when the bride has a change of mind, or gets one of those overwhelming cravings for a slider. Friends, relatives, the mortician and even the televangelist, Reverend Purswell, are left to sort out the leftovers. Nobody knows what the mess is all about until confronted with the exponentially born again. As more of the recently deceased munch the town, the police will have one idea about how to confront the zombies and the Reverend Purswell another. While everyone else is engaged with tom-foolery, Officer Sandra Anderson and Joe, get to the bottom of the horror, one grave encounter at a time. Not much of a first date, huh? What ever happened to dinner and a movie?
308 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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November 5, 2010
This story suffered from too many spelling and other contextual errors unfortunately. In addition, the story itself was fairly predictable in many ways, starting with the characters in it.
Our main character is ok as the average Joe who just wants to be left alone but gets pulled into an unpleasant situation. We have a bumbling Sheriff and his moronic son to contend with. Two "strong" female characters are a dominatrix lawyer and a crude, rude, and extremely promiscuous girlfriend of another character. The other main female role is that of another deputy who is so unsure of herself that she allows our main character, someone she just met, to basically take over her criminal investigation of what is going on around town with the dead. Add a typically overzealous tele-evangelist (who says not one single thing that sounded original at all but at least was creative in his uses of the zombies) and a odd mortician (what a shock that a mortician would be written as odd!) and you have a cast of characters that were interesting but had little depth.
The unique elements of this story are that a cream used by the mortician on the corpses is the element that brings them back to life, at least with the first one. Somehow his friend has snuck it out of some experimental government base or some such. It seemed a little thin as to how it got into the hands of this man given its potency, but regardless, he does have it. Another element that could have proven interesting was all the time spent where we are given insight into what the zombies are thinking. Unfortunately, there is little here except that they are hungry. We get several different terms describing what they see humans as-oversized sandwiches, turkey dinners, etc. Once was probably enough for that sort of description. I either personally prefer mystery or something more than just "they looked like a six course meal standing in front of him" sort of thing.
The story itself is alright and I could tell the author was having fun with the effort. With a good editor this story could have been much improved.
Our main character is ok as the average Joe who just wants to be left alone but gets pulled into an unpleasant situation. We have a bumbling Sheriff and his moronic son to contend with. Two "strong" female characters are a dominatrix lawyer and a crude, rude, and extremely promiscuous girlfriend of another character. The other main female role is that of another deputy who is so unsure of herself that she allows our main character, someone she just met, to basically take over her criminal investigation of what is going on around town with the dead. Add a typically overzealous tele-evangelist (who says not one single thing that sounded original at all but at least was creative in his uses of the zombies) and a odd mortician (what a shock that a mortician would be written as odd!) and you have a cast of characters that were interesting but had little depth.
The unique elements of this story are that a cream used by the mortician on the corpses is the element that brings them back to life, at least with the first one. Somehow his friend has snuck it out of some experimental government base or some such. It seemed a little thin as to how it got into the hands of this man given its potency, but regardless, he does have it. Another element that could have proven interesting was all the time spent where we are given insight into what the zombies are thinking. Unfortunately, there is little here except that they are hungry. We get several different terms describing what they see humans as-oversized sandwiches, turkey dinners, etc. Once was probably enough for that sort of description. I either personally prefer mystery or something more than just "they looked like a six course meal standing in front of him" sort of thing.
The story itself is alright and I could tell the author was having fun with the effort. With a good editor this story could have been much improved.
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