Review: Superb Zombie Apocalypse Genre Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2013
There are a couple of reasons I found this book excellent. The writing is very well done with no errors that I could find. Also, we experience this apocalypse through the two of our military heroes and a couple of (I think) CIA computer geeks. the book is written in the style of Tom Clancy, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn (RIP to a very talented author who was taken from us way too soon).The story starts in the safe house set up in a little town in Somalia called Hargeisa. This safe house is a sort of spinning door for the military as they completed missions in this area. ********SPOILER ALERT******** The story is told from the perspective of a young technician named Zach who actually frets a lot about what he knows is the coming apocalypse and is treated like a cute little puppy by the people who come and go. However, one day it happened. And as the safe house is about to be blown to bits, Zack, a Navy Seal, Bob, a second Navy Seal, Dugan and Baxter, the other technician barely make it out of the house in their well equipped Chevy Tahoe. If you aren't already on the edge of your seat, your teeth clattering on your fingernails, then you haven't been paying close attention to the story.What I liked most about this book was getting a bird's eye view of how our military units become like family in a short time when under extreme duress. They worked long and hard to stay alive as they flee this declining little city which is falling literally to the ground in a very short time. Once free of the city, they discover that rebel factions on either side of a very volatile situation in Somalia, have banded together and are as deadly to their existence as the diseased humans are. In all of the intense action, a strong bond forms amongst the men and real life heroes are born (and die, much to my sadness).From the moment I read the first sentence until I read the last sentence, I was completely enthralled by this book. Ask my son and his fiance who are visiting us for the 4th of July week! And since, as soon as I finish this review, I am going to go buy the other three sequels, I'm thinking my son will get a taste of not having Mom's full attention for the first time in his life, thus showing him that despite what he believes, I am far from pining for him since he moved away! (Another good thing about this series ;-).I know we have found the next author to climb the wrungs of the self published world to a bona fide agent and publishing house. Mr. Fuchs, this is stellar material and it is worth every one of the five stars I gave it. It might seem to some of you that I give out too many 5 stars to my book reviews. Not really, I simply don't review the books I don't like. I do major research before I choose a book to read, so I have been very lucky so far to have read truly talented author's stories which, if you have a Kindle as I do, are very affordable!There is some gore and blood in this book and a fair share of cursing, but not nearly as much as in other zombie novels I have read. I would not let youngsters read this, but for a great story, some geology of an area we rarely hear about and the excitement of being close up to how our men and women in uniform work together, I would definitely recommend Genesis Arisen to upper teens to younger 90s and up! I cannot encourage you enough to read this book (I still have three more in the series to read so I can't speak to them yet) if you like thrillers, and love to read!