Product Description

Seemingly overnight the world transforms into a barren wasteland ravaged by plague and overrun by hordes of flesh-eating zombies. A small band of desperate men and women stand their ground in a fortified compound in what had been Queens, New York. They've named their sanctuary Eden.

Harris--the unusual honest man in this dead world--races against time to solve a murder while maintaining his own humanity. Because the danger posed by the dead and diseased mass clawing at Eden's walls pales in comparison to the deceit and treachery Harris faces within.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135635 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 268 pages

Review
Zombies. Guns. Chaos in New York. It's hard to go wrong in a zombie book where the hero is infected right from get go. --Bryce Beattie, StoryHack.com

Customer Reviews

Had potential, if it had been professionally edited
As others have commented, there are many typographical errors throughout the book. At times, it was like listening to a speaker who says "um" every 3rd word--you stop paying attention, and start counting the "ums."

Aside from the simple spelling/grammar issues, a professional editor would encourage a consistent style, pacing, and narrative flow. Portions of the book read as if they came from several different authors--vocabulary, style, sentence length, levels of detail, etc., are inconsistent.

I didn't find the non-linear structure particularly confusing (but can certainly understand the complaint.) The first few lines of flashbacks quickly establish themselves as being out of sequence with the preceding chapter/scene. I saw the flashback structure as perhaps a parallel of the hero's unraveling mental state. However, if that was the intent, it is muddled by flashbacks to events the main character did not witness or know about. Some of the flashbacks are unrelated to the main character, or even to the plot(some of the military/police scenes have little or nothing to do with the storyline.)

The book takes a new perspective of the usual zombie story, but doesn't follow through on its potential. An editor (or a better editor) could do wonders for the book, perhaps even make it viable for commercial, rather than self-publishing.

Must have for zombie fans
If you are looking for a down and dirty Zombie novel, then look no farther. Provided of course that you can wade your way through multiple typos. The author has created almost the stereotypical archetype of a zombie book. Masses of undead, survivors banding together, total government breakdown, slow zombies, fast zombies, loud zombies, good survivors and bad survivors - it's all here.

The timeline leaps back and forth starting from within the walls of Eden, a sanctuary from the undead back to prior to the outbreak, then through various scenes of the pandemonium that followed. Some may dislike this format, I personally didn't mind it. The characters are very real, human, and flawed. Some are tortured by the loss of loved ones, others must deal with what they had to do to survive. The zombies in this book are what many zombie lovers would consider "old school" mindless shambling hoards of the undead.

What is interesting is that even though there isn't a single aspect of this novel that has not been done or seen before, this book reads as an all new story. I would consider this a must have for your zombie library. When I previously referred to typos, and there are plenty of them they mainly involve a lack of spaces between words at times, and at other times the leaving off of the last letter of a word, example the word "took" turning into "too." If you don't mind that then I highly recommend this book to the 15+ zombie fans.

Rated R for gore, violence, language both profane and racist, no sex is shown but it is very strongly eluded to.

Disappointing...
First off, let me say that I am a HUGE fan of the Zombie genre of movies and books. I have been for many years. And after reading the description and reviews for this book (the majority of them being positive), I figured I was in for some good Zombie fiction, but sadly, I found this book to be riddled with grammatical errors & typos and very poorly written with next to no literary flow. As a matter of fact, it was the only Zombie book out of the many that I have read over the years, that I simply could not finish. There are others I did not enjoy, but I ended up reading them to the finish. This one just did not suit my tastes in any way. Pick up a copy of Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne if you are a fan of the genre and have not already read it because it is the best Zombie book in my opinion. Eden pales in comparison in every facet.