First when I saw this, I thought that this is just rip-off from The Walking Dead, but now I´m glad that I was wrong. Crossed is a hundred times more violent and more nihilistic. There´s no hope.
This starts just like another zombie invasion. People are turned through bite or saliva onto flesh eating freaks, but this time the virus (or whatever is the cause) makes people loose their inner inhibitions and act violently. The one really gruesome aspect of this is that the virus also makes the infected do sexually deviate acts like necrophily, masochism and pedophilia. No sexual or violent deed is too much for these crazy people.
Beyond all the depravity there´s a inner meaning to all this violence. My interpretation of the story is that people of today dont care about anything anymore. Everything they see on TV about global warming, population explosion etc...they just shrug it off. They dont feel anything because the Internet has made them emotionally detached from reality. AND then comes the virus which is a slap in the face. Face it or DIE.
I understand that these books are separate stories and this one tells a story of a small group who tries to stay alive amidst all this chaos. There are quite a bit of shocks and turns in the story that make you gasp for air...so I don´t recommend this for the faint of heart.
Although this lacks the depth of characters like in Walking Dead, this is a gruesome slap in the face to me too (but in the nicest way possible)...
I give this 4/5.
