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I have not cried so much while reading a book in years. This book sucks you in, making your pulse race as zombies break through barricades and the mystery slowly enfolds. The writing is so gripping and entertaining, making the book hard to put down. While the pacing is not fast-paced, the action moments bring the reader back into the story.

I did listen to about the first 30% of the book. There are two narrators, one for each sibling, but since most of the book is told from Georgia's point of view, most of the book is that narrator. I felt she did a good job voicing Georgia and getting her personality across while making Shaun sounds almost too stereotypically like a surfer dude. I thought Shaun's narrator was also really good at expressing his character, although I did not hear much from him.

The story is much more political than the book synopsis may lead one to believe. Besides that surprise, the book had very good flow. Even the politics became interesting. I was more interested in the political campaign in the book than I have ever been in real life. The inclusion of every day problems (abortion, etc.) along with how to deal with zombies was almost surreal.

The main characters in the book are Georgia and Shaun with Buffy being almost to the main character point. All three were quite different with no chance of being confused. It helps that they all had different types of jobs (Newsie, Irwin, and Fictional). Even the side characters were very distinguishable, expect for the security guards who I sometimes got confused with.