Review – Dead Road Vol. 1 by Robert Paine

Ok, so imagine this – You’re a guy and and you and two of your spooked guy friends
are being chased down a mountain track by a pack of zombies.  There
are probably a couple dozen of them and they’re only 5 minutes behind you on the trail.  You
stop for a second to catch your breath and a stray zombie stumbles out
of nowhere and knocks you flat and tries to eat you.  Your friend takes a
hatchet to it and eventually stoves it’s head in.  It’s all good but when you get
up off the ground you notice there’s zombie gunk on the back of your
jeans.. Oh noes!.  It’s stinky and messy!  

Do you:

• a) Say “Whatev’s” and keep running down the mountain because
  you just wasted 4 minutes of your 5 minute lead while fighting off the
  stray one?  

Or:

• b) Strip off your pack, your hiking boots,  your jeans and your socks, root around in your pack for clean jeans and barely get
  your new pair of jeans on before you see the minute lead that you had on the zombies
  has actually now dwindled to about 10 seconds which results in you taking off
  barefoot to complete the last 9 miles of the mountain hike to the
  bottom?

Our MC chose poorly.  He went with option ‘b’.  

Yeah, I know…  Give me a break! 

It just goes downhill from there (no pun intended) and I stopped
caring about how stupid it was because I knew I only had about 5 more
minutes until it was finished. 

It’ll come as no shock to hear that I won’t be buying any further into the series.

Rating

Characters	☆☆☆☆☆
Plot	☆☆☆☆☆
Pacing	☆☆☆☆☆
Writing	☆☆☆☆☆
Overall	—