I really, really wanted to like this book. I mean... boats and zombies, right? What's not to love? Problem is, I'm not entirely sure the author knows all that much about either one.

For example, there's a major plot point that hinges on our hearty band of survivors hopping from their sailboat to a ferry, to obtain "an alternator" so as to repair the one broken on their boat. To a mariner, this is somewhat akin to the thing in Independence Day where the hero uploads a virus seamlessly to an alien spaceship using a MacBook. There is literally no way this could work the way it's written, and that jarring note just ... ugh.

There's also the problem that, although our plucky heroes literally swim through rotting zombie deathsoup, none of them seem to contract zombie death. I have zero idea how that could be possible, with any of the ways in canon in which one becomes zombified.

I get that it's "season one, episode one" but it'd be cool if backstory was covered a bit more. How did these folks end up together? How come they're on a sailboat but no one thinks to sail it?

I really, really wanted to like it, and I'm really, really sad I couldn't. I'm hoping the author hits their stride somewhere in the series. ( )