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The Zombie Chronicles: Outbreak
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It was the start of another ordinary day at the office for Max, he was emailing a friend when one of his other early morning co-workers called for his help, someone was having a heart attack. Rushing to the aid of his fallen co-worker Max knew one thing, it wasn’t a heart attack. Heart attack victims didn’t bleed and didn’t start chewing on anyone they could catch either. Once the victims died they came back to life with only one goal; to consume the living. Now Max… More >>
The Zombie Chronicles: Outbreak
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May 17th, 2010
@ 10:10 pm
This is the story of a regular work day at the start of a zombie apocalypse. After getting a sample, I was hooked on the story. The zombies were really different. It still has the shambling zombies, but the story also contains “smart” zombies. Each time a zombie feeds it regenerates and gets stronger and smarter. Also some zombies had some pings of humanity. I do not usually like this in my stories. I usually really like the old fashion romero type zombies, but the author did a good job with it so it did work for me. Not bad for an independent book. This book really is in some bad need of editing! I would have given this story a much better rating if not for the mispellings and errors. It is so distracting.
Rating: 3 / 5
May 17th, 2010
@ 11:48 pm
Did anyone proofread this story? Multiple typos on a page often times. As far as the story goes, I prefer traditional non speaking zombies. Nevermind some of the things the authors have them doing. Laundry? Good God.
Rating: 2 / 5
May 18th, 2010
@ 1:58 am
When I first started reading this e-book, I really did not think I would finish it. The story resembled something written for young teens, the characters flat, the story rushed. Luckily I was bored and had nothing else to read so i stuck with it. Once they got out of the building the character’s personalities grew as did the story. It bloomed out dragging you along by introducing a new form of “smart” zombies but kept the “shamblers”. The “Smart” zombies kept their thoughts and personality from before they were changed, grew smarter, could talk and became stronger the more they fed, and the “shamblers” were just your traditional stupid, non talking “brainnnnnns” type. Even though i am a die hard “brainnnnns” fan, I liked the new smart zombies. I liked how it showed the story from the zombies point of view. It was more of “evolution” than a “invasion” of zombies. Its about time zombies became as smart as vampires and take their place as something that could form its own society to feed off the weaker humans. Its soooo nice to see them as something other than a monster to just fear and bash their heads in. I can see great possibilities for the story to grow out to a new world order type thing where the zombies become the dominate species and humans battle for a spot to live and not be food.
The typos and mis-labeled/named characters were distracting and confusing. There is a part where Nancy is slapping Jimbo and it says Fred. I had to read that section several times to understand it. And then there is a chapter that ends with just the end half a sentence hanging. It makes you wonder what you missed.
Over all for the price I paid to read the story, it was totally worth it. I am intrigued and off to buy the others by Mark Clodl. I totally recommend it as a read, just take the errors with a smile, no one is perfect.
Rating: 4 / 5
May 18th, 2010
@ 4:49 am
I found this book to be a VERY interesting take on a very old subject. I most defintaely could have done without the typos, but I enjoyed the story very much.
Rating: 4 / 5
May 18th, 2010
@ 7:25 am
I have read all of Mark Clodi e-books, fun and entertaining. Not high-works of art by a long shot. Enjoyable would be the word. He does need to have someone proofread the books before he e-published. Having someone proofread his books would help fix the misspellings and other issues that sometime get in the way. One example is he used the word “class when it should have been glass” in “About a Woman”. However, you can easily read pass the errors.
Mark I am not a writer but if would like you can send me your books I would be happy to proofread them for you.
I like how he ties all the books together, with people that show up from time to time in each book.
I would recommend all of his books including his new one that he is working on.
Rating: 4 / 5