Book Review originally published October 17, 2014
How this got published is beyond me. How Mr. Patterson allowed his name to share any space with this circus is boggling. I picked it up and forced myself to finish, because the concept was unique. Sadly it read too much like a script and was far too expositional. A lot of telling rather than showing. The novel transitions sporadically, bouncing from place to place, from POV to POV, in each chapter, and the most laziest bit of all: jumping several years mid-story. Overall, this was the slowest zombie-zoo apocalypse with spotty scientific reasoning. So much squandered potential. Skip it.
Update (9/24/20): I recognize that Mr. Patterson is a power house and a force. He has a library of books to his name and the list keeps growing. Though I didn’t much care of this book, I believe it’s spawned short story sequel and a tv series. I might give the series a try and see if the story translates better on the small screen. The story is unique and definitely a page turner, but it wasn’t for me.
Stay ghoulish.