Emergency broadcast
Grab your backpack and head for the hills.
Something is happening. No one seems to know what. Or if they do, they ain’t telling. People are going crazy in Witherton and though no one is saying it, the Z-word lingers in the imagination of the reader from the word go.
This book has some good pacing. There’s no chapter that doesn’t have tension, and dealing with different characters and their points of view kept the whole story from being pigeonholed into a standard Z-word story.
As for the characters, there’s a lot of them. Be prepared to take notes to remember who’s who. That’s probably the one downside of this book, there’s a lot of characters. The reader cares for them at different levels and wants each to survive for different reasons.
Morality takes its place in the story as well when characters are given choices they have to make and watching them struggle with what to do is a good part of the tension.
Overall, the book handles a multiple POV quite well. It keeps things hopping and keeps the reader guessing what’s going to happen and who’s going to be around to talk about it.
A good Z-word book. I’m looking forward to the next in the series.