The Survivalistas: Indiana (The Survivalistas #1)
“Citizens are warned not to eat any meat products.”
Indiana is the perfect daughter girl-girl for her mom and tom boy for her dad. While spending the weekend at her fathers survival school, she returns to find the world in the grip of a bio-terrorist attack.
Terrorist have infected several meat packing plants across the US. People are getting sick and dieing… then coming back.
With her best friend Suzie and Redneck Hottie Ryan in tow she has to put her survival training to the test in order to keep them alive, in a world filling with zombies… who are trying to infect them.
~ Goodreads
Fluttering Thoughts:
That’s sweet: This is an intriguing short story project first published on Shandy Jo’s blog as a serial and then as a full length copy on Smashwords. This first book throws you into a world we know rapidly changing into a nightmare and how Indiana and her friends try to deal with it. The world building seems pretty realistic to me:
At first everything seems to be normal and when Indiana comes back from a weekend at her parents survival school a virus in meat changes humans into Zombies. Shandy describes how fast order can change into chaos when unusual circumstances arise. She however does not hang on to it too much. It is not an unbearable gory situation. Rather an objective description of what might happen.
There is romance obviously under difficult circumstances. Maybe quickened by the circumstances, but certainly not unrealistic. In my opinion the characters are pretty interesting as they are not too much a stereotype. And I love that.
That stings: The next two books are not published yet. I would love to know how the zombie apocalypse goes on.
And the honey of it all?
All in all this was a very pleasant reading experience. It was over much too fast for my taste, but luckily Shandy Jo has started the second serial on her blog: The Survivalistas Lyric. The idea of the series is to show the different main characters way of dealing with the zombie apocalypse in short story form but I think this is stuff for a fully grown novel. Besides learning how all three girls deal with the difficult situations I would love to know where that virus induced meat scandal ends.
But I have a feeling I find out more about that in the other books.
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lol well that sounds fun. Not generally my genre but might have to give it a go. Bummer the next two aren’t already out for ya!
anna@herding cats & burning soup recently posted…How to School Your Scoundrel (A Princess In Hiding #3) by Juliana Gray
It’s not my usual genre either but it was a great read as the emphasis is on the girls development and not on the zombie stuff. Well, she is doing really well on her blog :-). Thanks for commenting
Bee recently posted…Lean against…and listen ~ The Source
The book needs a cover redo, the current one is doing nothing for me. I love the title though, very catchy and obviously you loved the story so it must be good! I hope they release the next one soon!
Braine Talk Supe recently posted…Year 3.1: Ruin Me by Jamie Brenner – A Mother, Her Heiress & Bad Boys + Giveaway
True that nearly made me stop going for it but the story is worth it and the title is great in my opinion. Thanks for stopping by and commenting
Bee recently posted…Lean against…and listen ~ The Source
Oh a new zombie story? It’s intriguing. I haven’t read a lot of them lately and it would be a pleasure to try. I didn’t know this one but even if it was short but it looks like you had a good time with it. Thanks for the review!
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You are welcome and thanks for commenting 🙂
Bee recently posted…Lean against…and listen ~ The Source
I always do like a good apocalypse
blodeuedd recently posted…Talk to Me – Jules Wake
Good for you 🙂 Just try it I am sure you’d enjoy it. Even though the emphasis is not so much on the apocalypse I am afraid to say 🙂
Bee recently posted…Lean against…and listen ~ The Source
You had me at zombies! I love the sound of this one, even if it was a little fast going.
Jennifer Bielman recently posted…Review: A Beautiful Wedding by Jamie McGuire
It is indeed. I wished a few times while reading it it would be a full length novel. Thanks 🙂
Bee recently posted…Lean against…and listen ~ The Source
It’s official! I’ve caught the zombie apocalypse bug, so thanks for bringing this book to my attention. When I first saw the cover, I’d expected something completely different. I really must learn to start reading blurbs. LOL Great review!
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You are very welcome. LOL I had the same experience with the cover but there is a reason why they say: Never judge a book by its cover ;-). Take care
Bee recently posted…Lean against…and listen ~ The Source
Bee thank you for the wonderful review. I’m glad you liked it and are enjoying book 2. I’m working hard to get it out. 🙂
Ladies thank you all for commenting, if anyone has any suggestions on how I can make the cover better please let me know your free to email me at momofjandc@gmail.com