Title: Death is Only the Beginning

Genre: Horror

Quick Summary: There's a zombie on your lawn...

Thoughts:

I see this is in the midst of being editing. It could use another round of it. Tenses here switch so fast that it gives me whiplash. The sentence structure is... awkward. There's so much filtering I feel like I'm trying to drink Brita water. The point of view is... oftentimes confusing. We move from person to person a LOT in a scene. And then chapter six we... go back in time for some reason?

The idea here in general is interesting, though... but it's not really my thing. Zombie stories are hard because, if there's no means of plot, it's just horror slice of life, and slice of life is not my thing. I did like the prologue of sorts about the fisherman and his wife as a means of introducing how the outbreak started.

But otherwise... There's no real plot here aside from "four people try to survive zombies". But really, when you think about it, zombie survival plots can only end with everyone dying or a cure magically being found, somehow. I stopped at chapter eight, I believe, so I'm unsure which way this book is leaning, but I don't particularly care enough about these characters, these zombies, and this "plot" to find out which ending I'll be handed. 

I didn't even really feel bad when the one soldier - whose name escapes me - got mauled to death by zombies. It sucks, sure, and I bet it hurt, but the narration was so distanced that I just really didn't care. "Oh, this guy died. Moving on"

That isn't how I should be reacting, in case you were wondering.