Feb 17, 2010: The writing in the first couple of chapters is solid. The main character is an exhausted male nurse coming off an 18 hour shift. He sees a bunch of Red Cross trailers in the parking lot, and people getting "free flu shots". His suspicions aroused, he goes to check it out.

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Mar 17, 2010: Corbin, the hero of this story, is a nurse. It’s not everyday that I run across a story in which a nurse is the protagonist – heroes are traditionally usually given more "prestigious" professions and are doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Corbin being a humble nurse (and a very capable one at that) is what hooked me into reading the rest of the story and differentiated Oasis from other zombie novels.

The writing is tight and I enjoyed how events in the beginning chapters of the story that served an obvious purpose at the time of their occurrence, popped up again in later chapters serving a secondary purpose I hadn’t thought of/overlooked.

The characters’ actions and words were believable, the setting was vivid, and the action was well paced. All in all, it was truly a pleasure to read this story and it was time spent that, even though I should have been working, was in no way wasted. The only complaint I have with the writing comes at the very end of the book. Rather than spoiling it for future readers, I’ll leave that criticism unvoiced.

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