I Wanted To Love This Book
2.75 out of 5 stars
Zombie Infestation tells a story about your typical mom and writer. Oh wait, she does what at night? Hunts zombies? Okay, you have my attention. The opening of this book hints at this a little bit but it’s not until a little while in that we’re given this actual information. It did jump into action almost right away, but then sort of faded back into a slow-paced zombie story.
I wanted to love this book. It has everything that I like in it but I just could not get into it. I can’t tell if it was the specific writing style of Bushman or what but I had a really hard time getting into the plot of this book. Sure, on the surface it sounds super intriguing and something that I would enjoy but once into the story there were some scenes that just felt a little bit clunky and others where it felt like the story was being drawn out from novella length into short novel territory. I think this story would have been much tighter if it’d been a novella.
I went and read some other reviews (there weren’t too many which shocked me to be honest) and it sort of felt like you either really liked this book or didn’t I sort of fell in the middle, leaning slightly towards not liking it. Which is unfortunate because the audio quality and performance by Anneliese Rennie were great. I honestly finished the book on her strong performance. She was able to put in the right amount of emotion to keep me invested.
Overall, an average book that is a little bit too long narrated by a great narrator that was able to keep me listening.
Also, I’m not usually picky about covers usually only mentioning something that I love about them – but for some reason the woman on the front of this cover did not seem to fit with the story. My mental image of Serena wasn’t quite this Lara Croft-esque woman on the cover. But, that might just be me.
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