The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

In the blurb she is described as the reluctant leader. Oh perhaps he was too busy getting these sick patients to a safer place in the hospital, rescuing YOU and tending to the dying, you selfish bitch! Now she decides that she should be in charge as she is so much better than everyone else and knows what to do. She yells at him for not making an effort to find more food. She then throws a tantrum when the doctor, who has the patience of a saint dealing with her, admits he isn't telling everyone that food is low because he doesn't want to start a panic. Instead of saying sorry for lying, she sulks. Her next sulk occurs after she kills a couple of zombies, proving to the doctor that she never needed the drugs. Finally, when she decides she wants to know what is happening, she demands answers and throws her weight around. And how does she contribute? She pretends to be in pain so she can get morphine, which will be in short supply, depriving real patients who need it. She wakes up and starts behaving like a whiny, spoiled brat, sulking about being stuck in a basement as everyone hides from the zombies. Oh if only that were true! She refuses to shut the hell up, endangering everyone, and the doctor drugs her again to the blessed relief of everyone. Is Orissa grateful to be alive? Does she thank her rescuer or ask what happened to the fire and what all the screaming was before it? No, she launches into a tirade about being imprisoned and drugged against her will, and starts screaming that the doctors are in a conspiracy to murder her. She becomes trapped in the exam room by a fire and passes out, waking in the safety of a basement with other patients and the doctor. At a follow up appointment she is in the hospital waiting to be seen, moaning her head off as usual, when the zombie apocalypse breaks out.

Orissa begins our story drunk, coming in late to her worried relative's house and then ends up in hospital needing emergency surgery on her appendix. All of my dislike towards the book stems from the fact that our beloved MC heroine, Orissa, is a whiny, moaning faced, rude, obnoxious, self obsessed noron who I hated so much that I wanted to climb into the book and bite her myself. It was a mixture of poor editing, a dreadful bitch of an MC and a plot that neither excited or entertained me. I really didn't like anything about this book.

The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin