Apex
By Glyn Gardner
First let me
say I love zombie books. I was really
anxious to read this one since it is written by a nurse and I am a nurse. First of all it passed on one of my pet
peeves. Glyn was very realistic when
describing medical procedures and how the nurse character, Jen, is afraid when
doing them. She must make some hard
choses to work way beyond a nurse’s knowledge or people will not survive. As a nurse I understand that watching and
assisting a doctor is a world of differences than attempting to do it yourself. It would be scary to know that someone’s life
rested in your hands and you don’t have accurate training to accomplish what
must be done. Do you try anyway, because
if you don’t, they will die.
I liked the
other character in the book also. Jen’s
husband Mike is good man and tries to protect the people he cares about. They help save the kid next door and we get
to see her quickly develop into a responsible young adult who can take care of
herself. The first two military guys
they join forces with to escape the zombies are great. Ssgt Brown and Private Jackson take the duty
of defending the people with them very seriously.
If you are
bad person in this story, you had better beware. Gardner has gruesome ways of weeding out the
undesirables. The one fault I found with
this book was that I really didn’t read anything different from most zombie
novels. The redeeming part is that the
characters haven’t gotten very far in their journey when the first novel comes
to an end. I will read the next book in
the series because Apex is well written and keep my interest all the way
through. I read another review where
someone was complaining about spelling errors. What I have to say to them is
“get over it.” That is not how I judge a
book. If it is a good story and I like
it the errors are trivial. In this novel
the characters are well written and I found myself really rooting for the
heroes to make it and in some cases for the villains to get eaten.
