IF YOU HATE WORMS DON'T READ THIS.
It's not HOTD but it's pretty solid. You still have typical idealistic MC, a betrayal type person, super OP dude, convenient character connection, or how smooth things went, you also have the usual 'a god-like' character that can moves wherever they want or know what's happening in the background. They also played with politics and science, which isn't bad. Some people thinks it's bad some will think it's good.

But I feel like some part is more realistic than HOTD. How the government respond to an unknown epidemic or how untrained character react to death early on or how romance slowly developed over time.