What is the fascination with zombies? Or in this book, “Hungries”? Of all the monsters out there flesh eating dead or a hybrid thereof just never did it for me. O.k. I do love Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” but those animated corpses are just out having a good time, they aren’t eating the living. Funky, rotting dead things that seek to chow down on human happy meals just aren’t appealing to me, though a blood sucking vampire is certainly a turn-on, blame it on my Romanian roots, I have my standards. I surprised myself picking this title given the subject matter, but, all in all, the story is very well-written. Kind of a knock-off of the “Walking Dead” but this story is told from a completely scientific/military setting rather than civilians dealing with “Walkers.” Zombiefiles will really like this story and me as a non-Zombiefile thought it is a good story if a little overdone – geez! Zombies are everywhere from Musicals to toys to t.v. to the Internet and all the many books, comic books and media in between. And Mr. Carey did a fine job with telling his take on zombies, viral afflictions and the military response in a world gone rabid. Well done.
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