Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel)

It took me a while to pick this book up on Amazon for a couple of concerns. Firstly its cover looks like a piece of crap, I'm sorry but it does, and although I know the old adage 'Don't judge a book by its cover' that one doesn't always ring true, check out you local store's bargin bin. Books that the publisher have no faith in usually get stuck with lousy covers.

The second worry was that the book being in a diary format would end up being a little dry. Social commentary's great and all but what about the need for ghouls being shot in the face? In any case neither of those concerns came true. Day By Day Armageddon is a highly enjoyable read, the story is a little soft in places but its style is fantastic, you really get inside the narrator's head and are placed in his shoes. The survival techniques are brilliantly demonstrated (Making it a must-read for anyone crazy enough to believe the zombie apocalypse is actually coming, like, y'know, me.) And it certainly isn't short on the action side of things either.

This is a well writen book that is done in a diary set up which was enteresting. The book does a good job of staying with the old rules of the zombie which is what i liked about it, but he also puts a few minor but very good twist of his own when it comes to the undead. I am a huge fan that the charicter is a servicemember which makes for good tactics and use of skill. Also the fact that the author is as well shows in this book i realy respct that. I would tell anyone who is a fan of zombie's to pick this up and i am realy looking for the sequal.

First of all, English is not my mother tongue, even so, this what i think.
Facinating book, great read, at the end I feel so scare...
I was not trilled at the book cover, but just reading the introduction, it hook me in, the characters are well develop, and the history is fluid and credible.

Nothing really new or groundbreaking in this book. The only interesting idea, without hopefully giving too much away, was the affects of radiation on zombies.

Being written in a journal format makes it easy to read an entry, go do something else, come back and read another, go do something else, repeat. I finished the book in two hours while scanning some documents. While books like World War Z and the Morningstar Virus books spank this one, I have come across some zombie stinkers much worse than this book.

I have some issues with the fictional author of the diary being military and spending his time cleaning guns and lamenting his situation instead of modifying his environment or making more use of the knowledge that fire will kill the zombies. If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

I've read a bunch of zombie literature over the years, and I accidentally stumbled across this gem! Written by active military J. Bourne, the book takes the form of a action-packed diary written by a survivor of a zombie plague. Some very interesting plot twists and scenarios, and the fact that it's contemporary, well written and a good read combines to make this a sure classic in the making! The second volume is due out here sometime in 2008, so support the author and pick up a copy of volume one - you won't be disappointed if you enjoy zombie literature.