Rating: 3.5
Autumn returns home after a long shift at the hospital to find her finance, Luke, acting strangely. He becomes violent, causing her to flee in a panic. She decides to get out of town with her loveable dog, Daisy, and stops the first evening at a quaint Bed and Breakfast a few towns away. She meets some lovely people there, including a gorgeous man named Leland. Shortly after her arrival, sickly looking people come shuffling toward the B&B and one of them bites the owner of the place. It soon becomes a fight for survival as Autumn, Leland, and Daisy head back to Autumn's family.
I will admit that this is the first actual zombie book I have read besides I Am Legend (crazy, right?). I am a HUGE fan of The Walking Dead and movies like Daybreakers, though. This book was different to me in that we got to see what happens at the very beginning. It is always interesting to explore how different people react to a zombie apocalypse. Will they be too scared to shoot the zombies? Will they be able to find shelter or enough food? Autumn was lucky in the fact that her family had a place to hole up. I found it interesting that the power stayed on for so long. Cell phones worked much longer than expected. We didn't get an ACTUAL origin for the virus except for a fascinating and chilling epilogue that makes me really want to read more to find out what happens.
The characters were fairly well done - we got a few really emotional scenes. I think, this being the beginning of the apocalypse, that the action hasn't really started much. I am sure things will get pretty sticky in the next book as more and more people are turned into zombies.
I appreciated a lot of little things in this book. Autumn remarked about the smell of the zombies a few times - I always thought that the zombie apocalypse would just be ridiculously rank. I know that survivors would get used to it at some point. There were a few great visuals - the scenes at the B&B were quite idyllic.
Some of the dialogue was a little cheesy (I always have to remark that I don't read a lot of romance so I tend to not really like the mushy gushy romance parts. Sometimes the way things were worded seemed a little unrealistic.)
Interesting take on the zombie apocalypse! I am glad I have book 2 waiting for me in my kindle!
Grammar/Editing: Needs Work - There were a lot of issues with this book. The wording in many sentences was off (like subject/verb disagreement, fragments, etc.) There were tons of tense shifts throughout the book. There were a lot of punctuation errors. "Him and I" was used when "Him and me" was needed in some cases, etc. Cleaned up, this book would be much better!
Profanity: Mild - This book was really clean. (No F-bombs or things of that nature)
Violence: Heavy - I mean, you HAVE to have violence in a zombie book, but does it really count as violence? People got bitten, and zombies got shot and axed in the head. Other than one violent scene with Luke in the beginning, that was about it.
Sexuality: Mild - There was some passionate kissing, but no sex scenes. Autumn mentioned "indecent thoughts" but nothing ever happened, even though she and Leland were clearly sexually attracted to each other.
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