A review by nerdese
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks

3.0

Fun Fact! I'm doing a sort of swap/book club with the fiancé where we both picked a stack of our favorite books that the other hadn't read yet so we could dive a little deeper into each others' heads and tastes and whatnot. He's a big fan of Max Brooks, and wanted to start me off here! (For the record, my first pick for him was Maggie Nelson's The Red Parts.)

This was fun, and definitely not the kind of book I'd pick up on my own. I'm admittedly not a huge fan of zombies...I just don't buy into the possibility of if all. This was a cool breakdown, though the earlier, actual "survivor guide" was a bit dry for my taste. I also found a lot of the guides and breakdowns contradicted each other as the book progressed. The second part (recorded attacks) was much more fun, and really made this feel creepily like non-fiction. The details are just so that for a second, you feel compelled to search for names and dates and evidence of the events. So job well done there! I'd be open to eventually reading World War Z, arguably Brooks' more famous title.

Next up in the fiancé book swap? Neil Gaiman's American Gods!