Allison Hewitt Is Trapped by Madeleine RouxMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Time taken to read - 3 days on and off
Pages - 340
Publisher - St. Martin's Griffin
Source - Amazon
Blurb from Goodreads
One woman's story as she blogs - and fights back - the zombie apocalypse"
Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits. Allison reaches out for help through her blog, writing on her laptop and utilizing the military's emergency wireless network (SNET). It may also be her only chance to reach her mother. But as the reality of their situation sinks in, Allison's blog becomes a harrowing account of her edge-of-the-seat adventures (with some witty sarcasm thrown in) as she and her companions fight their way through ravenous zombies and sometimes even more dangerous humans.
My Review
Azombie apocalypse with internet and blog entries capturing Allison Hewitt's struggle to survive and all the issues she faces. Working in a bookstore you are very limited in your options when a zombie apocalypse kicks off, that is what happens to Allison. However we follow her journey, with a handful of other survivors as they slowly adapt and try to stay alive. As living conditions worsening, time is dragging on, it is clear they need to move on to stay alive.
I really liked the kick off for this, the blog aspect was new for me, as you know have read more than a few zombie books. We go through many avenues of emotional reactions, meltdowns, personal growth and all updated with her blog and some comments from other survivors and their plights. We see how different folk react, the dangerous interactions with not just the zombies but other survivors. Love, loss, bravery, humanity both the good and bad and the strength of humans to prevail and keep going.
Whilst I did enjoy this I didn't like the abruptness of the end. As I was nearing the last few chapters I got a bit nervy of how it would wrap up. I am sure some loved it but I felt it should have been a good bit longer and more closure. There is another book after this one, I don't think it is any of the same characters though. I will buy it because I do love a zombie book and I did enjoy the authors writing style plus blog entries and a new spin on this genre, for me anyway. I just wish there had been more, sure they say a good author always leaves their audience wanting more, I would have just liked more closure, 3.5 stars out of 5 for me this time.
I love when a zombie book can also be funny. So even if the ending isn't as good as you hoped, I'm still going to have to give this one a try. :D
ReplyDeleteI don't think Zombie books are for me. Although the only one I have read was The Girl With All the Gifts and I did like it.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy a good zombie book as well and this sounds like it has some unique aspects to it . . . although the abrupt ending has me nervous!
ReplyDeleteNot sure what happened there. Apologies, you may get two or more of the same comments from me.
ReplyDeleteThough somewhat tired of the whole vampire/werewolf/zombie genre, mention blogs and libraries and i'm right there. Away to add this to my Wanna Read list, thanks Llainy