Zombies again.

I couldn't help it. As soon as I saw something about zombies in the blurb, I was sold. This was a quick, very quick read. I started reading it in bite-sized pieces before bed. This morning, I woke up, hit school and read all through my classes. It was a good book. The main character is your normal tough guy protagonist, except he's a vampire and he gets his ass handed to him on a platter about 5 times in the novel. Which is fine with me. There was one part I didn't find too creative. You remember in the old Batman tv show how the bad guy would always tell the good guy his whole evil plan before killing him? Did that ever work or was it just lazy writing? I believe the latter. A good author can find a better way to tell readers the motivations of the bad-guys, or they can leave us guessing. Outright telling a reader is kind of insulting.

I did really like the book, though. I don't read much for mystery-ish-vampirey-stuff, but I picture it as being pretty close to the top of the heap. I did read the Anne Rice novels in middle school, but that was a completely different cup of tea. The vampires/zombies in this one are infected with a mysterious virus. It's not groundbreaking, but it was a breath of fresh air.

Well, short book, short review. This one wasn't on my "coming soon" list, because I didn't think I'd finish it so soon, but there it is :)

Coming soon: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Emma by Jane Austen, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald