This book is like some kind of sharpened nightmare
By Christian Hamilton on October 3, 2015
Format: Paperback
This book is like some kind of sharpened nightmare, filled with giddy turns, the outcome of each impossible for a reading mind to predict, yet its violent grip morphs into some kind of lulling, hopeful embrace. It’s a contraction in many ways; an exciting adventure story – a genuine zombie horror - and yet more of a cleverly subtle lesson on the pernicious effects of cruelty. Protagonist Indy has me simultaneously cheering and rooting for her while wanting to look away, like turning from some sort of tragic accident. The strength of this 15 year-old girl matches that of any existing, highly lauded male hero, yet she surpasses as a truly unique character, developed through the long suffering we are able to witness of a patient, sensitive genius. Its hurt wanted me to put it down, but its action and astute observation would not let me.
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction... Oct. 4 2015
By Tracy B.
Format:Kindle Edition
Mark Twain once said that truth is stranger than fiction, in that only fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't. What apocalypse the memoir manages to execute so fiercely is the bloody blurring of those lines between truth and fiction. The reader is immediately and inexorably dropped into a plausible, albeit, cruel life situation. Following in the visceral footsteps of a teenage girl's summer journey across America in search of her father, things rapidly, and quite literally, decay. As the subtitle indicates, world's first real zombie book, this novel is not for the fainthearted. It is raw, violent and gruesome. It's putrid and perverse. It is both tragic and heroic.
Along America's infamous Route 66, the reader becomes privy to a series of disturbing events, as symbolically and metaphorically retold by the author within a zombie apocalypse context, that leaves the reader questioning, did any of these horrifying events really happen? What nauseating pieces of this memoir are real, and what aren't? For Twain, and perhaps for many other readers too, fiction has to make sense, but life doesn't. Ultimately, it is up to the reader to reconcile what makes sense, and what doesn't; truth or fiction. What is real, however, is a truly compelling read...
