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(Slight spoilers below)
I barely could get through these books. Other than the glaring plot hole that other reviewers talked about (where was the rest of the United States/world when only the southwest states were infected and massive casualties occurred??) there were so many misspellings and grammar issues. For example, early in the book one of the infected is described as "her pupils turned black". Oh, really? Well, unless you have cataracts or bleeding eye trauma, pupils ARE black since it is the opening through which you see. A mass of infected was described as "clambering for flesh". I had to look up clambering and it means "climbing over something". I am pretty sure the author meant CLAMORING since the infected was coming towards them on a street. And another character was " bleeding like a civ". WTF is a civ?!? Instead of phonetically spelling something, try looking it up in a dictionary or using your MS Word spell check (The word you were looking for is "sieve", BTW).
I also was so tired of the main characters constant running, shooting their way out of ambushes by the infected/agents/murdering survivors (because really, when 95+% of the world as you know it are killed the first thing you want to do to the other few remaining survivors is kill or rape and then kill them, right?), running again, repeat. There was nothing interesting or different about the scenarios. Some of the other mistakes others pointed out were corrected (or maybe they just didn't read it thoroughly enough- the financial backing for infecting the masses was sort of explained by "overseas investors" and one of the main characters getting shot at just by poking his head into a lab was explained by him leading with a gun but you have to figure that one out since it wasn't stated outright).
Overall I had a very hard time slogging through this book and only finished this set out of sheer determination to not leave it unfinished. I had to stop reading so many times out of boredom and it was almost painful to pick it back up again. I will not be continuing the story because frankly, I can't take more of the same. I hope for the sake of other readers that the author has gotten a better editor, uses different plot devices, and stops relying on the deus ex machina that seems to end every tense situation where the characters get trapped.
March 2015 · Books · verified purchase