Zombie Apocalypse! Endgame

I was really looking forward to this final book but was disappointed. It was not nearly as engaging as the other two. I did manage to get through it rather more out of ' how will it end' curiosity than a gripping read. It was as though they had all run out of steam and left with remnants of ideas none of which really worked as a whole. A pity as the other two are well worth reading.

the journal pages are almost illegible on a kindle. print is to small and as they are images you cannot enlarge. I won't be buying any books that are not just regular type from now on.Loved the book though but would advise anyone to buy the print version (as I did for the earlier books in the series)

very good read

Good thanks

The final instalment of Stephen Jones's riveting trilogy is here, an illustrated mosaic-novel from 23 contributors presented once more in the form of newspaper articles, emails, handwritten letters, text messages, online accounts, official medical, military and government reports, diaries, transcripts of interviews and much more.There's a fundamental problem with using zombies as a monster: if they're just mindless, shambling eating machines then very quickly the whole thing becomes rote. You don't have an engaging villain you can become invested in: the zombies, like in The Walking Dead, just become background noise - always there, annoying, but not really adding much in the way of story.'Zombie Apocalypse!', then, offers up a different kind of monster: sure, you have your bog standard dumb-as-a-stump zombie, but remember this whole affair started off with the Human Reanimation Virus and as such affects - infects - people in different ways. Most become mindless eating machines, but others evolve. Intelligent, vocal, a new species.And none of it's an accident: science fiction supremo STEPHEN BAXTER, over a series of ten contributions, shows that the whole thing was planned forwards and backwards through time by multiple iterations of one 'Thomas Moreby'. From diaries dating from the mid-19th century telling of 'Mőbius'; from the mid-16th century and an assistant of Leonardo da Vinci telling of his master's meetings with 'Tomas da Morbi'... the name constantly recurring throughout history: Morbius, Moerbitz and more.Throughout all this are the usual frontline testimonies, but not just from survivors or those humans fighting back but also from the intelligent, vocal zombies who know what's happened to them and are trying to comes to terms with it. Many can't come to terms with it, though, and go insane... others, still, gleefully embrace this New World. And it's a dirty war, where the intelligent zombies are used as bait to lure humans out into the open. After all, this person's calling out to me - talking to me! - so they can't possibly be a zombie, right?! You have GARY McMAHON telling of his never-be-more-than-average writer and how he copes with his born-rich-bitch wife. MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH's smartphone apps designed for this New World we find ourselves in with functions such as 'Single Zombie Sighted' and 'Secure Location', or how about Count Down where you know you're gonna die so hey! text that love one now and tell 'em you love 'em, or - for the new zombie species! - appEtizers.BRIAN HODGE reveals more of the 'Thomas Moreby' grand plan, telling of Lady Cecilia, one of Moreby's Well of the Seven that was entombed with him. She's one of the new intelligent species who has lured hapless human Malcolm Morris into betraying the human race.LOU MORGAN tells of the confusion, madness and heartache of becoming one of the 'turned'.PAUL KANE and NANCY KILPATRICK tell of victims of the dirty war, where intelligent zombies are used as bait.JOHN LLEWELLYN PROBERT's Dr Clare Fremont shows just how much the new species has evolved, how they are communicating over distance without vocalising... and of how they can control human's in the same way.ALISON LITTLEWOOD explores the true origin of the word 'zombie' and PETER CROWTHER gives us a series of snapshots through police dispatch conversations and telephone calls.ANGELA SLATTER is in the barren outlands of Australia and there seems hope here, through Dr Maisie Perry's discovery... if only she can get it back and out into the world and PAUL McAULEY gives us more excerpts from Dr Alison McReady's journal.And PETER ATKINS channels Joe R. Lansdale in a terrific tale of rescue 'n' revenge.PAT CADIGAN gives us more insights into the zombie military while THANA NIVEAU breaks your heart with a tale of friendship across the barricades.CONRAD WILLIAMS gives a brilliant account of a man and a woman trapped on an island and LISA MORTON packs in the action with Kevin and young Maxi's adventures in pleasant Peetersville and its decidedly weird community and Pastor.What's so rewarding about these books is precisely the fact that you're NOT given all the answers, but fragmentary and tantalizing snapshots, encouraging the reader to read between the lines. These are terrific, fun books and happily it's not over as there is a series of spin-off novels set in the same world. The first two, 'Horror Hospital' by Mark Morris and 'Washington Deceased' by Lisa Morton, are already out and a third from Alison Littlewood is scheduled for next year with, I believe, a fourth from John Llewellyn Probert.

Sadly a book that whilst being the third and final part of Stephen’s series was one that completely failed to deliver on the titles synopsis promise from the publisher. It was sadly flat, spent way too much time filling itself with unnecessary filler which when backed with an incredibly slow pace as well as unanswered questions all round left me feeling heavily disappointed. Not a book that I’d recommend to anyone and if you have to read it, borrow it from either the library or wait for it to appear in the pound shop to save yourself a few quid.