A Girl and Her Cat

by William D. Collins

Life has been reduced to survival as civilization collapses under a mysterious force turning people into rage-fueled killing machines and the walking dead. Former Marine, Jack Williams, is making his way to the mountains when a strange little girl, Thalia, and her cat cross his path. In their fight for survival, Jack finds that more in the world has changed than just the undead as Thalia grows into a power that even she doesn’t understand. In their fight for survival, Jack struggles with his own demons brought home from the war as they face off with a threat far more dangerous than the living dead.

Genres: Fiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 17, 2011

About the author

William D Collins was born in 1970 in Youngstown, Ohio. He has been writing since he was ten years old but somehow got distracted from publishing for 30 years. He joined the Marine Corps when he was 17 and spent his eighteenth birthday in bootcamp at Parris Island. He served in Panama and Desert Storm and wrote stories by hand in his little notebook even then.

Since getting out, he has worked many different jobs including being a (not very good) Real Estate Agent, a (miserable) restaurant manager, and a (pretty happy )Private Investigator in the Washington DC area.

He now lives in a tiny town on Colorado's Western Slopes with his wife and two cats. He escaped from the Washington DC rat race and retreated to the mountains to pursue the writing career he always dreamed of.

"A Girl and her Cat" is his first novel but will be just the first of many. For more information check out his website at http://www.WilliamDCollins.com.

Reviews

[J. Kendrick Allen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This novel had an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse by utilizing an urban fantasy explanation rather than taking the tried and true angle of science fiction. Collins also layered in concepts exploring religion and the fall of modern ideals in the world post-apocalypse. All in all, Collins had a promising plot and good ideas, but he fell flat on the execution. I did finish the book, and I actually enjoyed the more promising elements in the second half of the book, but this novel would have benefited greatly from more editing and polish prior to its publication.

[Sally · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the initial premise of this book. It's a great story idea. But I think the characters could have been better developed, and the story fleshed out a little. There were quite a lot of grammar, punctuation and spelling errors, which isn't a huge deal, but it can be quite distracting.