The Beginning of the End
Apocalypse Z, Book 1
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The Beginning of the End
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Narrated by:
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Nick Podehl
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The dead rise…
A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news - it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men.
Humanity falls…
A lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy. But he never expected that his anonymous blog and journal would ultimately record humanity’s last days.
The end of the world has begun…
Governments scramble to stop the zombie virus, people panic, so-called Safe Havens are established, the world erupts into chaos; soon it’s every man, woman, and child for themselves. Armed only with makeshift weapons and the will to live, this survivor will give mankind one last chance against…Apocalypse Z.
©2012 Manel Loureiro (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.Continue the series
It is indeed a cracking read, right from the start you love the main character and his faithful feline companion. I like the fact that his sidekick is a cat, cat's are unpredictable, they cannot be trained and in a tricky situation they can be relied upon to disappear in an instant. In an apocalypse situation, I would imagine a cat would be a constant source of annoyance and greatly add to the already considerable danger of everyday life and in this story, the narrator is determined to look after his cat [Lucullus] come what may. This adds a real human touch to the story and adds much interest and danger to the story. he has to keep him fed, carry him around, call him, without actually making any noise, comfort him and talk to him to keep himself sane. It could so easily be a dog, a dog could be a hindrance too but would have many plus points like warning when it senses danger and protecting his master, maybe even laying down his life for him, with a cat, this is never going to happen. If he want's to keep his cat, he has to work at it and he does.
I have read in other reviews about this books predictability. Once you know the story is about the Zombie apocalypse, surely you expect certain things to happen. Most people die and return as the walking dead right? That's not a spoiler and certainly not unexpected is it? Stay in one place, you eventually run out of food & water and the Zombies will almost certainly find you, you will have to move on. You will have to do things out of character, you will learn new skills, you will do anything to survive and the Zombies WILL keep coming. Predictable or simply expected?
If you like Z stories, there is nothing here that will disappoint you. I highly recommend this one.
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Some lazy writing but very enjoyable story...
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not a bad read. worth taking the time out.
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What did you like best about The Beginning of the End? What did you like least?
This book is really poorly written, Day By Day Armageddon isn't the best series of books ever but I have would really recomend it over this if you like the idea of a first person narrative Zombie story. This seems to hinge on descriptions that try really hard to be graphic.There are some really really great ideas in this book. The fact that the protagonist is an average dude. The fact that the question of sanity and PTSD is explored and setting a book like this europe was an interesting way to handle it. However the story doesn't carry them off well at all. I feel like this may be because it's translated into a second language but that doesn't help those of us who don't speak spanish sadly.
The second half of the book is frankly agonising, if this is a conscious choice on the part of the author then considering the content ( I will avoid spoilers) then it's fair, but I found it incredibly hard to listen to.
Has The Beginning of the End put you off other books in this genre?
I wouldn't stop reading Z-fiction but I think I'm pretty happy to let this series go. Like I said, some good Ideas, and a sold narrator but overall it's a poor retelling of other Ideas from better stories.Any additional comments?
Listen to DBDA and the new Version of WWZ if you feel like some zombie stories. If you're looking for another DBDA then please keep looking, this isn't it.A bad story read well.
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