Since I share the four and five star reviews, I guess I should share my three star review as well.
Quote:
|
This book was an entertaining read. The author did a good job of recreating the feel of a classical text. The premise behind the book is a faux historical account of a zombie attack during the classical Roman era. The original text has been "restored" and presented to the public in the form of a scholarly paper complete with scholarly footnotes. The presentation is what makes this story stand out from other zombie horror books. You really will get the impression you are reading a long lost piece of history. Unfortunately, the book is too short. I read this in under two hours. A lot of details were never fleshed out and at times the author forgot that the reader may not share his frame of reference in terms of the "historical" facts. So there are these wholes in the story that can be annoying.
|
I actually have to acknowledge that this a fair criticism. I came at this project with a desire to write "A Penguin Classics book...with zombies" and one of my "inside jokes" was a poke at the Penguin editors' notorious habit of footnoting some very basic things ("Gladius - a Roman short sword") while occasionally failing to footnote more esoteric material. That has the potential to occasionally annoy, I'm sure. But at least the reader was entertained, right?