Customer Reviews

The Zombie Chronicles: Outbreak

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and unbelievably lame dialogue make this book too painful to endure. What is a "Lugar"? Not a German pistol, that's for sure. The story at least starts out well, but I had to quit about 15% of the way through the book, when the urge to have one of the undead chew my eyeballs out became too strong to ignore...

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.

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.

I really liked this book! There are still editorial errors but not so much that it`s painful. The story is so different than the ones I`m used to! Reading the next one now and can already tell the editing is much better.

At first, the book seem`s pretty stupid. As you get farther in, some of the outcomes may be upsetting, which is a good thing. There ARE a few things that go against many zombie movies and guides.

I personally loved Mark's twist on the zombie. No one complained when Zack Snyder and James Gunn made George Romero's zombies run in the Dawn of the Dead remake. I loved the creativity, suspense, and to be honest, this book and the series scared the crap out of me. I always recommend TZC to my friends and always will be a big fan of Mr. Clodi's work. Keep up the great work, Mark. I'll continue buying and promoting! :)

The blurb for this series says...

"The `Zombie Chronicles' universe, where the zombies don't stay mindless, shambling adversaries. Instead they grow smarter, faster and stronger as they feed on the flesh of the living."

...and to that statement I would add, "And where zombie-fighting humans begin to suspect that they, too, are changing as they struggle to survive in this bleak world."

Author Mark Clodi distinguished The Zombie Chronicles by coming up with the very novel idea that Romero-type zombies could learn and grow as they feed. The human survivors in the Zombie Chronicles world therefore have to content with both types of zombies as they try to survive.

The first three Zombie Chronicles books center upon Max, his best friend Bill, a cop Jane Steward, and a great supporting cast of minor characters -- both human and zombie. Interesting questions are raised: Can a thinking zombie still care about humanity? Could zombie and human work together to overcome the common evil? What qualifies as humanity? There are some grammatical mistakes in the series, particularly in the first book, but for me those faded in significance as I was caught up in the unique "smart zombies" premise, the multidimensional characters (it was particularly interesting to see the world through the eyes of the smart zombies), and the action as Max and friends try to stay alive.

In book one, Outbreak, Max meets his first zombie at the office, and fights his way home to his family.

This book is a great book. You read the first page and it is impossible to put down. On the downside, the characters curse way to much, and it looks like he didn't even bother to have someone edit it. So, if you can put up with tons of cussing and bad editing, then I recommend you read this book.

I love Zombie stories and this one adds a new twist to the old slow moving undead. As mentioned by others, all the typos, grammatical errors, and punctuation mistakes were fairly painful. The author's note claims that most of them were corrected, but I beg to differ. I struggled through these issues because I liked the story. Mark - Please get a competent editor for the next book. I like your story lines. I think this book is well worth editing.

This book was a little hard for me to get into but once I did and finished it, I immediately went on-line to the kindle store and bought the second one. The beginning is a little slow and it seems like it is going to be a normal crack the head zombie book but it is all that and more. There is a plan by the people that started the zombie outbreak and there are many twists and turns in the book. Buy this one and you will not be disappointed.