(Some spoilers ahead). This book was a work of a dilettante. He tried to make it a beginning of a unique and "cool" series, but all he ended up with was "trying to hard" and "did you miss chapters? or maybe sentences?" It left me with an impression that the author reread the book too many times, in order to rewrite it and make it perfect, but as a result he got desensitized, thus leaving things out, thinking they were understood, when in fact - they weren't.
Zombies, in this case "revenants", are loose in the city and it's kind of neither news nor a known fact for the personages of the book. It seems that people kiiiind of know about the plague, or do they? But if they do, then why aren't they really scared? I mean, the writer tells us that the masses are scared of it, but then why aren't the main characters? The plague is simply there, it's a part of the story, without the story actually acknowledging the fact.
The two main characters became closest friends within a week, without
any precedent. If Mann would have explained that there was a spark or
some other chemistry happening between them, or maybe an event, through
which they bonded... but he didn't. They were two strangers and, boom!
they are the best of chums.
And my question always is "Why in the world would anyone write about zombies at ALL?" Mindless, characterless, colorless, pointless force of nothings who aren't able to offer anything at all except mindless, characterless, colorless, pointless nothing. There is no aesthetic pleasure like with the faeries or at the least the philosophy of the already-becoming-boring vampires.
Besides, the book was too predictable. And not only the story, but the minor details as well were very unoriginal and used.
1 star.
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