Red is a woman who needs or wants no one, it only
complicates life. She is travelling east to find her brother, fighting zombies
along the way. A plaque has hit the country, possibly the world but Red can
take care of herself. The trouble is, after running into Trace at a saloon, she
is no longer alone and she doesn’t really know what he wants from her. As they
continue to travel, they pick up more and more people, all of whom discover why
she is so good at killing zombies.
Angela Scott writes with a lovely descriptive piece of work,
in fact the image of the baby in the cot stayed with me when I closed my eyes. I
liked the feisty MC, she takes nonsense from no one but as the story continues
and we learn of her horrendous life, we get to see her softer side. Trace is
more of a gentleman than cowboy but again it works in the relationship between
them.
The idea of treating zombies as a plague has intrigued me
for some time and unlike recent books about the apocalypse there are no bombs,
weapons of mass destruction that can wipe out some of the numbers, here you
just have a gun, a sword and they are greatly outnumbered. What I like about
this book is the change in Red and what grows within her and wondering whether
it will take over.
It is nicely written, paced well and good strong characters.
I will be reading the second book.
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