Dayna B. (DaynaAlyson) reviewed on 8/21/2013 + 31 more book reviews

This was my first foray into an apocalyptic zombie world and overall I liked the book and would recommend it as a good read. For me, the first half of the book was definitely more interesting and a faster read than the second half. The book is not really a novel in the traditional sense, as there are no real characters that the reader becomes attached to. If it were a movie, it would be a documentary (even though the content is fiction, obviously). Every chapter, some as short as a few paragraphs and few longer than 10 pages, is told by a different person in interview format. Although I initially enjoyed this narrative technique, by the end of the book I was over it and wishing for a traditional narrator to just tell the story chronologically, but the book still kept my interest to the end.

With that said, the author, Max Brooks, is an amazing story teller. He covered how the zombie apocalypse affected the world on every level: social, economic, and civic repercussions. I'm not even sure how one person could have such a good understanding of the people and governments of so many different countries to be able to tell this story so realistically. In short, I think Max Brooks may be a genius.

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