This book starts out okay, or at least not terribly—the staff of a upper-midwestern college town bookstore trapped in the break room and living off vending machine food while watching the zombies on the security camera is mildly amusing. However, it quickly deteriorates into a bland, generic post-apocalyptic mush which reads like it was plotted on the fly, NaNoWriMo style, and never adequately reconsidered or even considered. The "Black Earth Wives" subplot is particularly ill-thought-out and the ending is preposterous.