Title: Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

Author: Manel Loureiro

Publisher: Amazon Crossing 2012 (original text in Spanish 2007)

Genre: Zombies

Pages: 324

Rating: 3/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Zombies; TBR Pile

How I Got It: Library Loan

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. Bur he never expected that his anonymous blog 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, a lone survivor will give mankind one last chance against…

A random find from the library, but it turns out that I had originally had this book on my Goodreads TBR shelf.  Imagine that!  This is a bit of a run-of-the-mill zombie survival book.  Nothing too new or exciting, but it did keep my attention for a day.  The book started as a blog published in Spain in 2007.  It was translated into English and published as a novel in 2012.  While the action scenes are nice, some of the writing seems very detached.  I don't know if this is due to the translation or just how the passages were written in the first place.  I was not super impressed.

Apocalypse Z

• #1 The Beginning of the End
• #2 Dark Days
• #3 The Wrath of the Just