Time Well Wasted...

I've got a habit of deciding which books to purchase by how good the covers are, or by entrusting what is written on the back of the book, this time I followed this tradition.

I've been a fan of traditional zombie stories for some time now, and by traditional I mean "proper" zombies, slow dumb ones, not these fast running zombies of recent films.

I was rather sceptical about another one of those mediocre post-apocalyptic America stories, but this one had a good twist, a zombie with a concious mind.

I have to agree with some of the theories passed in this book, the major one being that nations with a history of violence such as some of the African nations would be the best survivors in a global zombie invasion, due to firearms being commonplace in the society. Obviously, this is not a statement to say that Africans spend all their time shooting each other, its merely a viable suggestion that nations with large stockpiles of firearms would do better than those without, such as the British.

Another interesting theory is the notion of a concious zombie, ie one that is able to think and react, and to also communicate. It is said that the time between when a human dies from a zombie bite, to the time they wake reanimated as a zombie, there is no breathing done, meaning the brain becomes almost completely dead. However this novel introduces a character that is able to connect himself to a ventilator after being bitten and is fed oxygen through the transformation, thus retaining his conciousness.

Not wanting to go into the depth of the story too much, as that is the whole point of reading yourself, this is a brief overview of what happens.

A group of Somalian fighters, along with a UN weapons inspector travel to New York City in the hope of finding drugs for the ill warlord back home. They come across this Doctor Zombie and end up shooting him in the head. He regenerates, called by his master and builds a huge zombie temple in the middle of central park by calling on the hundreds of thousands of NYC zombies telepathically. The good guys battle with him and the story concludes, I don't want to give away the ending.

Anyway, this is my first review so I hope you have enjoyed it, and feel free to let me know what you have thought of the book!

The sequel and prequel sound very enticing