eBook Review: No Easy Hope (Surviving the Dead)

Yesterday reader Tim H. yet again recommended a book I've recently finished and loved: James Cook's No Easy Hope (Surviving the Dead.)

No Easy Hope is a take on the 'survive the zombies' genre I hadn't seen before; society only sort of collapses. With a bit of a weak set-up revolving around Eric (the protagonist) and Gabe, his ex-military, zombie killing mentor building bunkers under their homes "because." When the zombie horde begins to spread across the southern US (where they are coincidentally located) Gabe discloses his long-held knowledge about the zombie infection and a manual he has written from his time in the military where he was part of a team used to create zombie killing techniques.

Eric emerges from his bunker and goes to find Gabe but is side-tracked into joining a good sized group of survivors for several months. The characters are real and develop well; their reactions and emotional states were believable. I felt fear for them when bad things happened, enjoyed the clever solutions they'd find to both simple and complex problems.

Cook left this wide open for his second book and I am looking forward to it. I bet Tim H. is too…

No Easy Hope (Surviving the Dead) by James Cook