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I'll confess that I got this book because it was really cheap, maybe even free. I liked it well enough that I immediately bought the second in the series at full price as soon as I finished this one.

The author has put together a good group of characters. They're smart, well developed, and come across as real people who don't always make the right decision but their track record is pretty good. Most are likeable, a few not so much. The zombies are good old fashioned Romero type shamblers.

The book doesn't waste time and jumps right in with the onset of the zombie uprising. It starts with Kasey and Ben, two people who have become friends online (bonding largely on their mutual love and knowledge of zombie lore) but have not actually met. They had a plan in place from way before about what they'd do if the unthinkable\inevitable happened, a plan that involved Ben making his way to Kasey's well-supplied house out in the boonies of West Virginia.

The snag with this plan is that Ben won't go without his best friend Jake and Jake is trapped in a classroom with a small group of other people. As it would be rude to tell them they'll have to go off and die on their own, Kasey somewhat reluctantly agrees to let the whole group come.

I'm not going to go into further plot detail. As I'm sure you'll have guessed, there are many adventures within. You can't get too comfortable reading this book as you can never be certain how things are going to turn out.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who, like me, loves a good zombie book with characters that can hold your interest. It's not a nonstop zombie gore fest but the scenes with zombies are good. I thought the ratio of character interaction to zombie fighting was nicely balanced.


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Roads Less Traveled The Plan C Dulaney 9781934861998 Books Reviews

Kasey has a plan for the ZPAW - which makes perfect sense to me since I do too. The story revolves around Kasey and Ben, a friend from the InfernalNet, and their plan to survive the apocalypse. Like all plans this one changes with contact with the enemy, aka the shambling, moaning undead hordes. The author doesn't delve into the causes of the plague that reshapes the world but rather in what the characters are going through as they deal with day to day events. That is the crux of a good tale - it is always the people.

Previous reviewers have given many of the details of this tale and I'm not a fella to kick a dead horse so I'll leave that to them. My take is on how the characters really do seem like real people - who do stupid crap and brave crap and everything in between. Kasey has done the majority of the effort to prepare and plan for surviving what may come and we never really know why. That was a plot point I'd like to have had a little more flesh on its bones (zombie pun for the win!).

Okay, joking aside, I found that the folks who inhabit this tale do pretty good for themselves, but haven't quite really come to grips with the changed reality that others live in. Since they live in an isolated place, after their various travails to get there, but those were initial and against the undead, they hadn't come up against many people from the outside. The story shows this very well in some of the byplay that occurs in the middle, but mostly in the final events that unfold in the book. Human treachery, avarice and malicious destruction show that maybe the plan was a little too narrow in its focus, such that the characters paid dearly.

I know that a second and third part of the story are coming from the Permuted Press forums and I for one am eager to see what changes have been wrought in the survivors and the plan itself. I highly recommend this read for the character challenges and a great alternative to the gun pr0n that often gets tossed into these tales.
This is the 1st book in a good while where I actually finished the book and wanted to go right back to the beginning and read it all over again. If it hadnt been 430am when I finished reading, I just might have done that.

There were a few things that bothered me. I am going to go and re-read just to make sure I didnt read so fast that I missed some stuff. I have no idea what some of these people look like, or how old they are. I know that most of Jake and Ben's crew is in college, and that Zack is a little older than Jake. Also that Zack is taller than Jake's 5'5. Ok how old is Kasey? I assume she is older than the others since she has a job and her own house and such. We need some more descriptions of characters. This and the fact that there was no romance was the reason I docked a star. There was everything you needed to throw us a little side action with characters and we didnt even get a kiss out of it.
It was slow going for a while. Yeah there was some Zombie action, but it was kinda hard to get into it till everyone came together at Kasey's house.

Kasey and Ben met on the internet and became friends. Kasey is a recluse, she prefers solitude and doesnt have many friends. They put together a Zombie Plan incase the zombie apocalypse actually happened. Ben's friend Jake was eventually brought into the plan. Ben and Jake would leave college together, pick up Jake's grandparents, and meet up at Kasey's house. As always plans seem to change last minute, so they had some extras along for the ride.

I like the personality of the people in this book. Most of them meshed well, and tried hard to make the best of the situation. You always have your bad apple of the bunch and in this book it would be Kyra. I would just like to say this to Kyra, Karma is a b***h.
******SPOILER****** If you hadnt decided that you wanted Mia to die, and then went and hid the antibiotics that she desperately needed, then you wouldnt have been kidnapped. If you hadnt sought vengeance just because you didnt like someone, everyone would have been fine, inclulding yourself.******END SPOILER******

As if the zombie apocalypse wasnt hard enough dealing with the undead, you get your criminal aspect as well. Not all humans are good, the the people in this book learn this the hard way. The convicts from a nearby prison have broken out and started raiding houses killing men and kidnapping the women.

Overall I really enjoyed this book, and I hope I am right in assuming there will be a sequel.

Will I recommend the book? Yes!
Will I read it again? Yes!
Will I read the next book in series? Absolutly!
I'll confess that I got this book because it was really cheap, maybe even free. I liked it well enough that I immediately bought the second in the series at full price as soon as I finished this one.

The author has put together a good group of characters. They're smart, well developed, and come across as real people who don't always make the right decision but their track record is pretty good. Most are likeable, a few not so much. The zombies are good old fashioned Romero type shamblers.

The book doesn't waste time and jumps right in with the onset of the zombie uprising. It starts with Kasey and Ben, two people who have become friends online (bonding largely on their mutual love and knowledge of zombie lore) but have not actually met. They had a plan in place from way before about what they'd do if the unthinkable\inevitable happened, a plan that involved Ben making his way to Kasey's well-supplied house out in the boonies of West Virginia.

The snag with this plan is that Ben won't go without his best friend Jake and Jake is trapped in a classroom with a small group of other people. As it would be rude to tell them they'll have to go off and die on their own, Kasey somewhat reluctantly agrees to let the whole group come.

I'm not going to go into further plot detail. As I'm sure you'll have guessed, there are many adventures within. You can't get too comfortable reading this book as you can never be certain how things are going to turn out.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who, like me, loves a good zombie book with characters that can hold your interest. It's not a nonstop zombie gore fest but the scenes with zombies are good. I thought the ratio of character interaction to zombie fighting was nicely balanced.