It took me a small little bit to get into it, but now I'm hooked. The story is great and the characters are easy to cling to. Great start to a series.

Loose plot, inconsistent (zombie like) creatures and unbelievable characters who suddenly become expert marksmen and can put down seriously well trained soldiers. Three main characters disappear and without justification you just follow two others for the second half of the books whereas before you were switching between them. Not enough planning went in to this book.

*actual rating - 3.5 stars*

This was a pretty good prequel to the contamination series. I really loved the mystery surrounding the virus and the cryptic messages that we had a little taste of.

Quinn seemed like a really fun character and I'm looking forward to reading more about her in the coming books.

I love post apocalyptic fiction, but I do feel like it's hard to be original because there's so many of these books out there. From what I've read in this prequel, I think this series is going to be fun, and hopefully it will continue to be different from all the rest.

This prelude focuses on Dan Lowery and his daughter Quinn, and their escape from St. Matthew’s when the infection starts.
We’re introduced to the infection through “Patient Zero” Frank the town drunk. Now THIS is how you start a zombie apocalypse. Take out the police first. Or the hospital. Or heck, both!

Things get a little weird when the second cop is introduced, Howard. His position doesn’t really make sense at first. As the chaos ensues, Dan is in a rush to get home to his family. He is, then, confronted with his wife holding a knife in a catatonic state. His daughter, however, is missing. He sends Howard out after his daughter while he dealt with his wife, who attacks him.
While others would expect Dan to become a cop and subdue his wife, I saw a man afraid of who his wife had become and unsure how to stop it. He mourned the loss of her.

Now for Howard. He manages to find Quinn and rescue her, but receives a text which Quinn reads. It sends her running away again and we slowly learn that Howard is a sleeper agent who has a part in what was happening in St. Matthew’s.

When Quinn and her father reunite, Howard reveals himself and Dan leaves him to his fate with the zombies.

Now, there are some spelling errors in this. Some grammatical errors. But they aren’t terrible and do not deviate from the story greatly. It is a fun, zombie filled story that introduces you to the Contamination series.

It took me a small little bit to get into it, but now I'm hooked. The story is great and the characters are easy to cling to. Great start to a series.

ook zero starts and the reader is looking into the life of Dan, a police officer, who wants nothing more than to get home to his family. Little does he know that he and the rest of the town are in for a really big ordeal.

The audio for book one was amazing. The narrator was perfect and paced his words with enough pauses so my mind could wrap around the imagery. As I listened to Dan discovering his wife, just sitting in a chair, neither talking or averting her eyes, I knew something serious was going to happen, I just didn't know when. Fortunately for Dan, he had his spidey skills working and knew something was amiss. Unfortunately for Dan he did not know his wife was about to go all crazy up in their dining room. She did have the presence of mind to lock their daughter into her bedroom before she went all crazy zombie (not zombie though, just crazy).

What's weird is I really do not know what these people are. We do find out that it's an experiment on the town and how it is happening but not why. Book one ends on a massive cliff hanger, but not before lots of people get their guts ripped out. I only know that the people behind this "experiment" must be sadistic bastards because this was intense!

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This prequel to the Contamination series might have more impact if you'd read some of the other books first, but as a first introduction it doesn't really work all that well. The characters are thin, and the plot's basically just "the first night of the zombie outbreak" routine that should be very familiar by now. Nothing distinctive or innovative, no hook that made me say "oh, that's interesting".

Not enough meat here to tempt me to take another bite at the series.