And in a nice pacing, the book does have sub-stories involving other characters that play an indirect part in Jim's journey. The bulk of the story though is about Jim Thurmond who is trying to travel across states to get to his ex-wife's house and rescue his son.
Their main limitation is the usual zombie slowness. While being zombies and still wanting to kill the living (mostly so that their brethren can come through and take over the body), these zombies are intelligent and can shoot guns and strategize. And in a nice tie up, this becomes an issue near the end of the novel. The zombies appear because souls or beings from another dimension are making it through a hole or a dimensional weakening created by a scientist. And THE RISING falls into that same category.
Or at least I'm glad that all the zombie books that I've been picking up have been well written. I'm not exactly sure when zombies came back into vogue but I'm glad for it.
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