OK,,, I have been thinking about how the hell I was going to review this book. First of all, I will tell you that I HATE zombies! In fact, I am a bit phobic about them. But, I had to give this book a shot since my GR friends all loved it. Although the whole zombie thing continued to sort of get in the way of my enjoyment of this book, it really was more than that. I like mystery, I like a little dystopian darkness, but what I also want in a book is something positive to happen. I'm not one of those people that likes the really depressing movies about losing your kid, or losing your spouse without something good coming out of it. I don't mean every book I read has to have a happy ending, far from it,,, it just can't be devastation after devastation. 
 For me, this book was at first boring, then, a downer. The first 45% of the book was a snore (and a little icky and scaring for me taste - again, the zombies). I know that Grant was trying to set up the "world" of 2040 after the Rising, but all of the news, blogging, computer mumbo jumbo, and the political stuff,,, just didn't do it for me. 
 Now, one thing that Grant was able to do was to write great characters, Georgia and Shaun specifically. You could feel the love and devotion they had for each other, which made the heartbreaking parts that more heartbreaking. So, for that, and for the shear creativity of it, I give the book 3 stars. However, I won't be reading the next in the series. Sorry guys...