A doctor returning from the mountains of India unknowingly brings a deadly virus to the western world. The nightmare begins.
Society crumbles...
Alex Harley is hiking with three friends when all media channels shut down to be replaced with the Emergency Broadcast. Civilians are warned to stay in their homes. Isolated and afraid, the four friends begin a fight for survival.
The end of the world is here...
The military sets up Survivor Camps to separate the infected from the uninfected. As a U.N. rescue mission is put into operation to save survivors from the clutches of the zombies, Alex and his friends must deal with the undead and power-crazed soldiers.
But while they fight to survive, the authorities consider drastic measures to rid the world of monsters..
My Review:
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
1 Platypire for Rain by Shaun Harbinger
I'm a huge a zombie fan and thought I would enjoy Rain. While it did have a great cover, good synopsis, decent editing and based in the UK, this book was just not for me.
In the beginning I felt the pacing was just off. Everything happen really quick with not much of an explanation. One minute a stranger on a hike came out of nowhere with an attack and the next morning the world basically ended. The characters weren't that likable and kept making bad decisions. Alex the main lead kept knowing everything just based off zombie movies & TV shows which he kept referencing all the time.
There were also quite a few unbelievable moments that I just couldn't get pass. For example, I am not sure how the military works in the UK but I found it hard to believe they would chase after a group of people just to rescue them. I just couldn't imagine them being that determine. Personally, I live in one of the most populous cities in the US and have undergone a mass evacuation due to natural disaster and know they leave those who decide to stay.
The big kicker for me was the fact that zombies didn't want to get wet. I think I should have stopped reading but the book was so short. I basically wanted to see if it could get worse. It did. The whole time I was reading the book I kept picturing the fact I could fight zombies with a water-gun. Yet for some reason the characters never thought of it.
Overall this was a bad book and I can't recommend it to anyone.
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