Paperback: 51 pages
Publisher: Smashwords
Publication date: 07 July 2013
It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation. It turned out to be the complete opposite...
A camping trip in the mountains of Vermont is interrupted when a group of friends discover there has been a zombie outbreak. Having been disconnected from the world for the past week, and one of their group already bitten, the friends have to make their way down the mountain and find safety.
Can the group cover miles of dark woods on foot while trying to avoid getting overtaken by the undead? What caused the outbreak? Are there any other survivors?
Just a little mini-review because it's just a little mini-story. I don't know why I keep trying these serial stories... Oh wait, I do...The first parts are free!
51 pages. It's like a couple of chapters worth and not very satisfying. The story itself had potential but too much of my reading time was spent picking out typos and tense slippage and wishing ill luck on the characters as they were tstl.
Ok, so imagine this - You're a guy and and you and two of your spooked guy friends are being chased down a mountain track by a pack of zombies. There are probably a couple dozen of them and they're only 5 minutes behind you on the trail. You stop for a second to catch your breath and a stray zombie stumbles out of nowhere and knocks you flat and tries to eat you. Your friend takes a hatchet to it and eventually stoves it's head in. It's all good but when you get up off the ground you notice there's zombie gunk on the back of your jeans.. Oh noes!. It's stinky and messy!
Do you:
- a) Say "Whatev's" and keep running down the mountain because you just wasted 4 minutes of your 5 minute lead while fighting off the stray one?
- b) Strip off your pack, your hiking boots, your jeans and your socks, root around in your pack for clean jeans and barely get your new pair of jeans on before you see the minute lead that you had on the zombies has actually now dwindled to about 10 seconds which results in you taking off barefoot to complete the last 9 miles of the mountain hike to the bottom?
Our MC chose poorly. He went with option 'b'.
Yeah, I know... Give me a break!
It just goes downhill from there (no pun intended) and I stopped caring about how stupid it was because I knew I only had about 5 more minutes until it was finished.
It'll come as no shock to hear that I won't be buying any further into the series.
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