stinkerbellen's Reviews (1.02k)

It was different from all the other zombiebooks/-movies I've come across. I liked the book, but I do enjoy pretty much anything swedish, but it had a few (minor) flaws, bits and bobs that I felt were missing. I'm a big fan of 'why?', the book didn't give many answers to my questions, but then again that wasn't the point. The point was the characters, all somehow affected by death. The book had it's tearjerking moments, the biggest of which for me was Baltasar :( I totally saw that coming and somehow wanted to ignore it...

Yeah......

+ for the conclusion, I hate when things are left hanging

% can't decide if either a plus or a minus: the book had a feel that it was written 'realistically' as in "what would I do in a zombie apocalypse". When thought of that way I thought with the scavenging etc I would imagine that is what would happen with survivors, but when thought in a way "this is a book not reality" it gets quite boring to read about finding different supplies page after page. I wanted more action and more depth to all the character. As nice of a thought it is to make the book a journal I dont't think it worked that well.

- the way the main character tells the story feels a bit arrogant and superhuman
- from the beginning made me think of Nat Geos 'Doomsday Preppers' way too much (not the writers fault...)
- too much guntalk of which I basically just understood AK-47
- the end was pushing it too much on the mushy side
- some phrases really annoyed me

There's a reason I don't like book series. Even if I didn't like the first book (in this case I have liked the books) I feel obligated to read the sequels, because I'm a big fan of closure. And now I have to wait for who knows how long for the next book which I'm quite positive will be published someday, 'cause this was left hanging. In a way I liked this book more than Flu, although I think a lot of this book could've been corporated in the first book, then it could've been a two-parter. A lot of stuff was just dragged out. I thought Flu was more character-concentrated than this. But I liked how it all was in parts and it made sense from moving one thing to another.

Spoiler

I hoped that there would be at least a happy ending for Lark, Geri and Brina. I was really disappointed that Lark got infected.. I'm still waiting to read a zombie-book with a little bit of romance, it doesn't have to take away from the horror of it all

I couldn't put the book down. That's why I'm still awake at 5am. It did seem a bit superhuman though and I really did not agree with the protagonists romantic interest at all.. If the love part had played out as I would've liked, I'd given this 5 stars ;)

Prefered this over Alison Hewitt is trapped. I'm actually sad I'm finished, I wish the book had gone on just a little bit more... or a lot.

Kinsella just never fails me. Though in the beginning I was a bit annoyed with the leading lady, but in the end I got what I needed from this book. A happy ending for a warm-hearted romance book. Thank you very much indeed.

I liked that it was short. I liked that it was a bit different from the movie. I liked that I'd seen the movie before this, so I could make the characters in my head to be Kat Dennings (love her) and Michael Cera. And now I'm happy to move on to the next book....

HNGRHHH!!!! I want resolutions! Happy or sad, resolutions PLEASE! Or a third book (read spoilers, that the second book won't give anything away either..) ASAP! kthxbye.