I thought it was a pretty good book overall! I was pleasantly surprised that it was a zombie apocalypse book. I love apocalypses, and I love zombies.

The characters were pretty well drawn too, I think. My favorite wound up being Dr. Caldwell. How can I sum her up? She's The Villain Who Saves the World Or At Minimum Figures Out What's Going On. She's a jerk, she's hyper-focused, she doesn't see Melanie as human, she puts her work — saving the human race — ahead of ethics, and she does all sorts of questionable things.

Oh, and she carries the sting of being a second rate scientist. Being second rate saves her, but it also obligates her to push herself to do the work the first rates weren't able to do before dying.

I don't even like her. I'm glad I don't like her. I'm glad she'd multi-dimensional.