If this was some kind of more serious suspense/character based-type horror novel based on the impact of a mostly unseen threat, this could be an interesting take on the genre. So our first person narrator does not actually lay eyes on a zombie after the first chapter until almost the end of this overstuffed book. There’s another chapter where two of them are being chased through the halls of a government building, but they only HEAR the zombie behind them, never see it. The characters flee a major city right before it gets firebombed due a zombie outbreak. We don’t get another actual zombie encounter until over 500 PAGES later. There’s an opening chapter here with our intrepid heroes escaping a pack of zombies that ends on page 18. Compared to Deadline, that one now looks like The Night of the Living Dead. When I reviewed the previous book, Feed, I noted that that there were very few zombie attacks in it despite it being called a zombie book.
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