Do Zombie Dogs Infect?

Matt greets his neighbor, a hunter, who comes home with a stag with its head busted in. He tells him it just wouldn't die, no matter how many times he shot it, and that he had to bash its head in with his rifle to finally put it down... Also, it bit his hand. Want some deer steaks?

The next day Matt is awoken by the most horrible screeching sound, and after investigating it he finds his neighbor and family have become zombies, which causes an epidemic that very quickly spills over into the city...

This is action-packed and very fast-moving. The characterizations aren't very deep, and it also follows back and forth with a military base and all the typical soldier type characters and scientists that are working on making a cure that often felt like filler since they pretty much have the same conversation over and over but differently worded. It's always fun otherwise though, and man those action scenes are great. The zombies were done pretty well too, with both descriptions and just the general danger they always pose throughout the book.

It actually opens with one Dr. Blake, the creator of all this nonsense trying to steal some of his materials away after his project is shut down. He crashes his car after the earlier mentioned stag crashes into him, starting this whole mess. They only say at the very end what his project was actually about and it caused me to roll my eyes, how ridiculous!

Matt during his misadventures in the city eventually meets up with Melissa, a pharmacist who also has combat training, because it's a zombie story so of course, she does. Their back and forth banter is amusing and provides a lot of humor in between the over the top action scenes. Neither are great characters, but they are personable and enjoyable enough.

Will Mat and Melissa make it to the helicopter with the antidotes without it crashing? Will thing after thing go wrong for the pair as they try to make their way to the military base in time? Will the military base still be a safe place when they do finally arrive? Do things ever end well in a zombie story? Do zombie dogs infect? You know the answers to all these questions without reading, but it's still a fun book.