The first two books in the Morningstar strain were great. I was eagerly awaiting the 3rd book and was crestfallen to hear about the author passing away (my thoughts go out to his family and friends). When I heard that the 3rd book was still being written I was torn. I was happy that the book was going to be finished, but scared because past experiences have made me very weary of ghost writers.

After weeks of staring at Amazon's preorder link, my curiosity won out and I had to know how it ended. The storyline was solid and moved at a constant pace. Some characters acted just how I remembered, some seemed a little different, and others seemed to be there for cameo appearances. Character differences are things I expected, I can only imagine how hard it would be to take over writing a story with so many characters.

The only thing that put me off was that the "zombie process" seemed to change from the first 2 books. Previously, someone infected could take days to show signs (unless they were bit, then it was a much faster process) and become a sprinter. After they were killed, if it wasn't a head shot, in an hour or so they would rise as a shambler. In the third book a few uninfected characters died and became shamblers in minutes.

Please don't take the above 2 paragraphs as negative, they are just things that I noticed. All in all, Survivors wasn't a bad piece of work. Kudos to Thomas Brannan for giving all Z's fans an ending to an epic series.