I used to love this series SO much... but lately it seems like they have lost that strength and agile narrative I liked so much...
This one in particular has to be the slowest ever. Here we find the aftermath of Angel's addiction to V12, seen in the previous book, which ended up with a killed mutated zombie thrown into the bayou. Now it seems that the epidemic with the mutated parasite is spreading, all due to some zombified gators.
Angel and the members of the Tribe are hands-on studying it to try and put and end to it before it spreads. But here is where things go sloooowly. They go to the bayou to get samples from the gators, they find one who is clearly infected - the other one is taken by their enemies -, and instead of making sure it's dead, they go away leaving it roaming free to bite more people... Don't get that one.
And how sloy the story is building up is another handicap for me. Looks like there is no action involved, no moving forward.

At 82% of the book I decided to drop it. I used to love this series, but as I've said they began to lose steam somewhere and I was pushing through this one out of how much I enjoyed them and out of respect for the author, but I just can't keep reading something that zombie walks more than moves through the pages. It seemed like the book picked up: the pandemic was going viral and everyone went to the Tribe base and bunched together to work things out. But then I began not to care about the characters, the pandemic or what happened with the plot. Maybe if it had been faster... or the characters spent less time talking and more doing things, or if we knew how Kang could keep himself hidden away, or if not so many different people came to juggle things... or maybe if I had read it at another time... who knows exactly why, but I couldn't care for this one.