I listen to a lot of books on tape (CD) due to driving too much for work. This week is a YA oriented anthology "Zombies v Unicorns" every other story is either a zombie story or one about unicorns. The stories are okay I guess, but one thing annoyed me.
So for the Zombie story, Children of the Revolution, the protagonist is a college student in England who is being 800 pounds to watch the five adopted children of a famous actress (sorta Angelie Jolie) for one night. The kids are in a closed space and the girl is not allowed to have face to face with them. This "mystery" goes on for 80 percent of the story. The girl does not know what is wrong with these kids. So over an overwrought section, she frees them and they bite her.
The part that annoys me is that this is set up as a surprise, as a long reveal, but we know the reveal. They are zombies. How do we know the children are zombies before the writer reveals it? Because we are reading a zombie story is a zombie anthology. Did the author not know where this story was?
Where is the fun reading a twist y ending tale when you know all the twists before you crack open the book? This is lazy writing. Find a way to write it where it is still interesting and surprising, even though we know what the creature is. We are readers who read zombie stories, we have read a lot of them, please be kind to us and not expect us just falling off the turnip truck.
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