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The Last Mailman: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Zombies (2011)

by Kevin J. Burke(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Permuted Press

review 1: Until now the primary association with post apocalyptic mail delivery service has been a very heroic (self directed to look so) Kevin Costner. Burke gives us D(don't call him Donald)J(don't call him Jeremy) and DJ is awesome. This is his story. Nowadays, it is with great reluctance that I read zombie novels, the genre has been overdone to (pun alert)death. This one however was surprisingly refreshing. And no, Burke, didn't turn the genre upside down or spun it into something incredibly unique, he merely did the formula well and with a sort of joy to it, as in the book maintained a certain degree of levity and humor consistently throughout despite the prerequisite amount of gore, guts and zombies. Having charismatic compelling cast or miscast of characters certainly helps t... moreoo. There were some abrupt perspective changes toward the end, slightly confusing because of the maintained first person narration, but overall the book was tons of fun to read. Very entertaining quick read. Recommended.
review 2: With a title like this I kinda expected it to be like Kevin Costner’s ‘The Postman’ but with zombies. In a way it is, the character of DJ, The Last Mailman of the title does indeed fill that role somehow and the book starts off with him doing what every good post-apocalyptic postman should be doing, delivering good news and bad, to the last bastions of humanity. Burke ups a gear by having DJ delivery a human cargo to the outpost that makes up the survivors of Atlanta, who want fertile young women in exchange for a supposed cure for the ever-present zombie virus. All seems to be going well until a disaster put our hero and his motley crew out amongst the ‘Wilds’ of North America. From here the action really kicks off. I really enjoyed this, Burke injects some genuinely funny moments that had me smiling as well as apt homage’s to The Evil Dead series as well as alluding to the typical Romero Zombieverse. With more than enough inventive deaths to sate the thirst of the gore fan and some nice one-liners there is no reason this should sit of the zombie lovers shelf. But my only gripe would be after a while, the endless zombie killing grew tiring and if a good 20-30 pages had been trimmed off of the ending I would have easily awarded this 5/5 for what it could have been; a fantastically paced zombie action novella. Not quite first class, but not entirely lost in the post. less

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