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vikingwolf's review
2.0
I find myself being a bit baffled by the way the first story was set out. Half of it features Eddie's flight history as a pilot, life story, seeing a rapper hit a photographer in the airport, bitchy comments about the girlfriend he cheats on his wife with, the girlfriend's sexual partners, checking into the hotel, his married life woes...that was all very boring. It did improve when the zombies finally arrive and he has to escape the airport on his plane, but all the dumb waffle leading up to it wasn't needed. I decided not to read on after other reviews suggested the same format for each short story.
roseayyy_reads's review
3.0
Sagliani is a talented writer, and because of that, and his zombie topic of choice, I fully intend to check out his other novels. However, I didn't care for Undead L.A. 1 as much as I thought I would.
In the description, it says there are six stories, told from different people's view of what happened during the initial zombie outbreak in Los Angeles. As an avid reader of zombie books, having the opportunity to read what happened during the start of a zombie apocalypse from different perspectives was interesting to me. However, as I read on, it became apparent that the stories seemed less about the zombie outbreak and more about what happened in each person's life leading up to the outbreak. More often than not, I got lost in the reading and ended up forgetting I was even reading a zombie novel!
Though the writing was good and I loved the attention to detail of each character and how every story connected with the next one, I was disappointed in the book as a whole. Based off the description, I expected each story to be all about the initial outbreak and each people's view of it. Instead, I got mostly back story with just a few pages of zombies. That is why I had to rate Undead L.A. 1 only 3 stars.
In the description, it says there are six stories, told from different people's view of what happened during the initial zombie outbreak in Los Angeles. As an avid reader of zombie books, having the opportunity to read what happened during the start of a zombie apocalypse from different perspectives was interesting to me. However, as I read on, it became apparent that the stories seemed less about the zombie outbreak and more about what happened in each person's life leading up to the outbreak. More often than not, I got lost in the reading and ended up forgetting I was even reading a zombie novel!
Though the writing was good and I loved the attention to detail of each character and how every story connected with the next one, I was disappointed in the book as a whole. Based off the description, I expected each story to be all about the initial outbreak and each people's view of it. Instead, I got mostly back story with just a few pages of zombies. That is why I had to rate Undead L.A. 1 only 3 stars.
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