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Greeting my shambling shuffling friends.

I had to break into the United nations and steal a secret notebook from the World Health Organization in order to give you this next review.

That notebook is called The Zombie Autopsies, written by Steven C. Schlozman, illustrated by Andrea Sparacio and brought to us by Grand Central Publishing.

Steven C. Schlozman has done alot of painstaking research to bring this book to us, and that research is very intelligent. Covering the autopsies of rotting shamblers, he has introduced us to the anatomy and effects on organs that the virus(es) have upon the body and the progression of the infected from simple flu like symptoms to rotting hungry worm buffets. The medical descriptions were spot on, as well as the medical terminology.

The illustrations by Andrea Sparacio were beautiful, professional and deserving of a place in Gray's Anatomy.

The story is in the format of a medical journal written to help solve the impending destruction of all man kind by an airborne and bite spread pathogen that is turning the world to zombies. The medical staff are all infected and are racing against the clock before their research comes to an end and their hunger becomes unending.

I do like The Zombie Autopsies and will be proud to have it on my book shelf next to World War Z, the Day by Day Armeggedon series, and The Morning Star Strain series.

But this book was missing something, and that was the emotional human element. It is written from the point of view of a scientist, amongst other scientists, who are consumed by their research. No emotional ties or big heartbreaks, no emergency situations that had me turning the pages to see what happened next. I enjoyed the realism, but I could have been reading a technical manual in medical school. I did not feel for the characters as they succumbed to the virus(es), nor did I mourn their conversions. In fact I was happy at their zombification because I wanted them to wreak havoc, and pick up the pace of the story.

But the medical descriptions and the anatomical illustrations were superb, and I found myself flipping back through the book after finishing it to look at the drawings again.
This book can be put up there on your bookshelf next to other greats and admired even if it is more of a medical journal and less of a story.

So let me ask, will the scientists make a last minute break through that could lead to a vaccine and save the world, or will they and their remaining test subjects become nothing but crab buffet?

You will have to read The Zombie Autopsies to find out.

You can find The Zombie Autopsies at Amazon.com.

Thanks for reading, and until my next post, I will be shuffling along with the lost.

Jimmy Blue Eyes
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