It was definitely not what I was expecting when I decided to read a book about a Zombie War. The book was eerily realistic throughout - perhaps that was because Brooks chose to write the book "ten years after the war" and as anecdotes/interviews from survivors with first-person accounts. It was at times scary, either because the zombie interactions can be quite gruesome, or human reactions are a little too real. I also liked how the story contained a lot of subtle inferences to what may or may not have happened, and sometimes I couldn't help but think of the worst scenario. It's a book that made me think of what my own reactions would be in such a catastrophic, global situation and if I would be a survivor or end up reanimating. Either way, yes, it's a story about fictional monsters, but it manages to provoke basic human psychology. In the end, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and it made me think far more than I thought it would, and for that deserves five stars.