It is not the usual linear narrative, instead it is a collection of interviews with key players who survived the events of the zombie plague.
At first this felt like a collection of short stories but after a little bit I started to get into, not so much the rhythm of the book, but how each interview would raise questions in my head and succeeding passages would go to answer them.
This was my first zombie book, I'm not usually a fan of this kind of thing. I have to admit that this novel is a step up from the, "Man meets zombie, man runs from zombie, man gets eaten by zombie" type of thing. If you take the "idea" of a zombie plague and run with it a bit; how would society react and deal with such a calamity? Would law and order survive? How would our daily lives be affected? Would there be an economy left behind? Would functioning governments maintain order and power?
What's fun is that the solution is very easy - kill the zombies. It's not like waiting for some lab somewhere to discover an antidote will end the conflict. Each person has the power to "remove" the infected.
What humanity had to deal with was the overwhelming numbers of infected and this was made more interesting by showing how individuals dealt with a loved one who'd fallen to the disease.
If you get over the whole zombie thing, then you are reading a fantastic mental exercise that intelligently delves into serious matters while being a ripping good yarn at the same time.
Looking forward to the re-imagining the movie will present.
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