hyperashley's review against another edition
I'm not going to lie here, I try to always be honest in my reviews - the whole first half of this book bored me. There were times that I wanted to stop reading because it was very repetitive at the beginning. It was just Leah, working, and trying to get around after her "joke" came out and lets not forget about her crush on Jake.
Leah has a crush on one of her coworkers and in an attempt to make him laugh she accidentally sends an email to her boss, instead of Jake. She sends her boss a phony zombie attack, which turns out to be true and turns her whole world upside down. Now they are under lockdown and all wanting to figure out what happened to their families.
I liked some of the characters, like Michelle. She was a funny character that seemed real and likable. Leah was another one but there were times that she annoyed me. The only character that I was wary about was Mike. I think that's because of how he was introduced, I always get annoyed in zombie books when people are too trusting.
The last part of the book saved it for me, that was a plot twist that I did not see coming for some reason. It's something that I probably should have known was going to happen but didn't. It was surprising and that reason alone is why I will read book two.
Leah has a crush on one of her coworkers and in an attempt to make him laugh she accidentally sends an email to her boss, instead of Jake. She sends her boss a phony zombie attack, which turns out to be true and turns her whole world upside down. Now they are under lockdown and all wanting to figure out what happened to their families.
I liked some of the characters, like Michelle. She was a funny character that seemed real and likable. Leah was another one but there were times that she annoyed me. The only character that I was wary about was Mike. I think that's because of how he was introduced, I always get annoyed in zombie books when people are too trusting.
The last part of the book saved it for me, that was a plot twist that I did not see coming for some reason. It's something that I probably should have known was going to happen but didn't. It was surprising and that reason alone is why I will read book two.
kimily's review
2.0
I started out enjoying this book, but the beginning seemed to drag out forever. The middle picked up a little, but then the end was in sight and it was clear how things were going, and any enjoyment I was having was lost. I won't read any more of this series.
kimily's review against another edition
2.0
I started out enjoying this book, but the beginning seemed to drag out forever. The middle picked up a little, but then the end was in sight and it was clear how things were going, and any enjoyment I was having was lost. I won't read any more of this series.
pixiejazz's review
4.0
Lockdown is the first book in the AM13 Outbreak series.
It starts out pretty normal, with main character Leah browsing the internet for a video to "prank" her crush with rather than doing her job. However, she accidentally sends this video to her boss, who then begins to take it more seriously than she expected. And when she starts getting hounded, she starts to freak out. She has no idea why this prank has gotten so out of control. Until things start to spiral into a hellish nightmare.
Leah and her co-workers are stuck in their office during the government sanctioned lockdown while things are supposedly "taken care of." Leah, however, doesn't want to be stuck inside. She and two others decide to ignore the lockdown and try to find their families to make sure they're safe instead.
What starts out as a pretty simple journey turns into a fight for survival when Leah and her co-workers realize the lockdown really was put into place for their own safety. Do they make it to safety? Do they find their families? Read it and find out.
I found Lockdown to be a bit slow at first. Leah was kind of frustrating, mostly because she was a little on the immature side. She really only thought about herself and what her crush would think of her. She just wanted to impress him. And she spent a lot of the book questioning why her prank video was being taken so seriously. She questioned why her name had been released with the news report involving the video. And she had moments where you kind of wanted to shake her and tell her to wake up. That her prank video wasn't just some fake thing she found on the internet, and that she'd best start believing in zombies.
Leah did get a little better later on in the book. She wasn't as frustrating once things got going. And her friends/co-workers, Michelle and Jake, were two characters you found yourself liking more than her on occasion.
The one thing that bothered me was that there was no real closure for one of the characters. I don't want to spoil anything, but one character disappears at one point, and by the end of the book, you're still unsure what happened to them. Did they get bitten and die? Did they somehow manage to survive? Unless I missed something, that's never resolved.
Overall, though, Lockdown is a pretty good start to a very interesting zombie apocalypse/horror trilogy. It's definitely a book that will hook you and make you want to read the other two books in the series.
I give it 4 stars.
It starts out pretty normal, with main character Leah browsing the internet for a video to "prank" her crush with rather than doing her job. However, she accidentally sends this video to her boss, who then begins to take it more seriously than she expected. And when she starts getting hounded, she starts to freak out. She has no idea why this prank has gotten so out of control. Until things start to spiral into a hellish nightmare.
Leah and her co-workers are stuck in their office during the government sanctioned lockdown while things are supposedly "taken care of." Leah, however, doesn't want to be stuck inside. She and two others decide to ignore the lockdown and try to find their families to make sure they're safe instead.
What starts out as a pretty simple journey turns into a fight for survival when Leah and her co-workers realize the lockdown really was put into place for their own safety. Do they make it to safety? Do they find their families? Read it and find out.
I found Lockdown to be a bit slow at first. Leah was kind of frustrating, mostly because she was a little on the immature side. She really only thought about herself and what her crush would think of her. She just wanted to impress him. And she spent a lot of the book questioning why her prank video was being taken so seriously. She questioned why her name had been released with the news report involving the video. And she had moments where you kind of wanted to shake her and tell her to wake up. That her prank video wasn't just some fake thing she found on the internet, and that she'd best start believing in zombies.
Leah did get a little better later on in the book. She wasn't as frustrating once things got going. And her friends/co-workers, Michelle and Jake, were two characters you found yourself liking more than her on occasion.
The one thing that bothered me was that there was no real closure for one of the characters. I don't want to spoil anything, but one character disappears at one point, and by the end of the book, you're still unsure what happened to them. Did they get bitten and die? Did they somehow manage to survive? Unless I missed something, that's never resolved.
Overall, though, Lockdown is a pretty good start to a very interesting zombie apocalypse/horror trilogy. It's definitely a book that will hook you and make you want to read the other two books in the series.
I give it 4 stars.
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