Dying to Live Life Sentence

Released: 2008
Horror
Author: Kim Paffenroth
Pages: 210

In a series of three books, this is the second one.
The first book was told from one main characters perspective, shortly after the end of his world and the beginning of the zombie era.
A major virus, or infection has caused the entire world, presumably, to fall ill, die, and become zombies.  After he finds a baby and father on a roof top one day he helps them into his community of survivors that helped him.

This book picks up from the grown up baby's point of view.
The baby grows up in the community and only knows a world where the walking dead are always a threat, learns how to shoot and fight to survive and carries a handgun at 12.
Someone else in the group tries to learn more about zombies as he grows up and finds out that a few of them are not like the others.  Some zombies are intelligent and can remember some things from their past life.

The book is now told from two very different points of view, one human, and one zombie.

I didn't think the first book was anything special, it was just ok.
The second book is down right ridiculous with the introduction of the idea that some zombies could somehow think and have memories, to even be friendly towards people and suppress the urges to eat them.

At best, zombies capabilities should end at being able to pick up a rock to use as a primitive weapon to break something.  That's a rational idea for a zombies intelligence and where it should end.  A zombie keeping a journal is something all together hard to swallow.

I realize the author is trying to make up some different stories here, but this is pushing it way too far.
Zombie lore has kinda' been set.  You get ill, or bit, you die.  You get reanimated as a zombie and want to eat people.  You don't think.  You must get shot in the head, or destroy the brain to put down a zombie.  You don't fall in love as a zombie, you don't talk, you don't type on a computer, and you certainly don't write journals.

This book was unintentionally funny at times, but I finished it.  Overall, it was way worse than the first one.

Do not waste your time on this book.
1 out of 5 for outlandish ideas, even by science fiction standards.