Keep Your Crowbar Handy

Keep Your Crowbar Handy is unique. It's zombies, for sure, but the characters are intriguing and unique. Do-good journalist, Jake is standing in line at the pharmacy with his elderly neighbor when a woman starts berating the employee attempting to help her. Jake steps in and gives the woman a verbal tongue-lashing in defense of the blue-haired Asian girl behind the counter. Kat sets him up with her roommate, Laurel, the Irish redhead, and it's love at first sight. Don't worry about Kat, though, the sexy vixen hooks up with Jake's daredevil best friend, Allen.

Lucky for Jake, his ex-military landlord George is prepared for everything, including the zombie apocalypse! Durnin does a great job starting out with action right off the bat. The tension builds parallel to character development until the two meet in a clash.

I also enjoyed the fact that there is no pussyfooting around. The character's first reaction to the chaos is 'zombies'. They don't question what is going on, or try to come up with any cockamamie excuses. So there is no time spent in denial.

The first thing I did upon completing Keep Your Crowbar Handy was ask the author how long I had to wait until the next book. That, in my opinion, is the true testament to a good book. It engaged me enough to keep reading straight to the end and left me wanting to know what happens next. The characters are solid, the plot is well-structured and merely pushes at the boundaries of realism, making it just believable enough that the zompoc could really go down that way. Oh, and the zombies are plentiful.

If you enjoy fun zombie fiction with just a hint of a military feel, and want an easy read, Keep Your Crowbar Handy is the book for you.