Zombie Fallout

It all started with the flu, or the flu vaccine to be more precise. H1N1 was tearing the world apart, until the scientists thought they found a cure. The public was so desperate for a remedy that the scientists didn’t go through their usual trials, but rushed the vaccine all over the world. People lined up, but all to soon realized that the vaccine that was suppose to save them all was really going to doom the world. One of the side effects of the vaccine, the only side effect of the untested vaccine pushed onto the pubic was a spiked fever within days of inoculation. A fever that got worse and worse until the person collapsed and died. They didn’t stay dead though, that would make for a boring story. They got up again, this time with a taste for human organs and blood.

These creatures, or Zombies as the public called them, ransacked the land, killing any and all things they met. Within a few days of the H1N1 vaccine being distributed, there was almost no humans left. That is where Mike Talbot’s story starts.

This seems like a good, hard-core action packed zombie book so far right? Well, you would be wrong, so wrong. It reads like the writing of a fifteen year olds journal. The human isn’t just “guy humor” filled with stupid puns and sex jokes, but rather the humor of an adolescent boy who hasn’t had sex, or even kissed a girl yet. The main character is a weak pathetic excuse for a man, trying to act macho when really he is a spineless git. Even during battles he takes time aside from, you know saving people and his family, to think about how the zombie might have looked before the infection, and how they might have looked naked. Mike groans on and on about how he’s a “survivalist,” but really he has no idea what to do.

I had this novel on audio book, and it was so difficult to get through, it was written so badly. It took me months, literally months to get through it because I found it just so painful. Don’t read it, there are better zombie novels out there. Heck, there is better Walking Dead fanfiction.