Chaos

This is a book I would not have read had it not been written by a local author (zombie tales just aren't my thing), so I can not be trusted to write a meaningful review. But I will say this. It is very much fun and a little unnerving to read a zombie apocalypse that takes place literally so close to home. The main character drives past my grocery story, and I am pretty sure I know right where he lives. As for the writing. ... Well, I wish he O'Brien had had a merciless editor to whip the manuscript into shape. Some of the sentences made me want to cry. This is something one expects from self-published books, unfortunately. On the one hand, several times I thought, “OK, I'm done. I'll stop reading now and move on to something else.” But I never stopped. I read through to the end and was glad I had done so. The story is exciting and, considering the action apart from the sentence structures, is well written. It was compelling enough to keep me reading. In real life, I would have no desire to make the protagonist's acquaintance outside an emergency situation, but in the book I cared about him and those whom he loves, so I give the author that praise.