With the battle of the living dead looming over his shoulder Sidney redoubles his efforts to be ready for the fight. He brings in new technology from some of his favorite games to help with this threat. While working, he finds that the Undead Core is not idly waiting for the battle and is working on his own plans that make things more complicated for the future. With his community growing, so does all the pains of trying to manage it all. Will Sidney be able to turn all the tricks and tools he mastered as a Strategy game player into usable methods to keep his people alive? The Undead Core will be the test to find out.
My problem with this book is the huge tech jump. The author has blacksmiths building APCs, canon, and machine guns. This would be way out of any blacksmiths ability to make.
His hero undergoing days, maybe even weeks of torture without breaking is also way past realistic.
The world building is pretty good as I am constantly wondering what is next. The MC is good and the small breaks for a second persons point of view is well done.