Synopsis:
A new flu strain has been spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Disturbing news footage is flooding the cable news channels. People are worried. People are frightened. But Zed Zane is oblivious.
Zed needs to borrow rent money from his parents. He gets up Sunday morning, drinks enough tequila to stifle his pride and heads to his mom’s house for a lunch of begging, again.
But something is wrong. There's blood in the foyer. His mother's corpse is on the living room floor. Zed's stepdad, Dan is wild with crazy-eyed violence and attacks Zed when he comes into the house. They struggle into the kitchen. Dan's yellow teeth tear at Zed's arm but Zed grabs a knife and stabs Dan, thirty-seven times, or so the police later say.
With infection burning in his blood, Zed is arrested for murder but the world is falling apart and he soon finds himself back on the street, fighting for his life among the infected who would kill him and the normal people, who fear him.
My Review:
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3 1/2 Platypires for Slow Burn: Zero Day
This was an enjoyable read. I thought it was pretty fast paced and I was immediately hooked from the beginning. While I did enjoy the story, I found quite a few similarities with other previously read zombies books. Especially with the character Jerome, who was very similar to a well known Walking Dead character. To the point where I already knew his big secret after a few paragraphs after his introduction. Luckily his story-line didn't drag or it would have changed my outlook for this novel.
I also rarely mention grammar mistakes but I did find Slow Burn to have quite a few typos. Noticeable mistakes to the point where I had to re-read sentences and it slowed down the story flow.
Now all that being said. This was a fun read. I love a good zombie story. I would recommend this to any zombie fan and I do plan on reading the next book in the series.
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