THIS WAS TRASH (no offense or disrespect meant to the author - these are just my opinions)  

This story is set in 2014. An apocalyptic world where a zombie plague has taken over human life and everything it contains. We follow 3 young rising bloggers whose job is to uncover the origins of the disease and those responsible for its manifestation. The plot focuses on the world of journalism and how these bloggers use their platform to expose the corrupt leaders within the American government and their sinister role behind the plague. 

I am going to say it as it is. I hated this book. From the cover and blurb of the book, I was so intrigued to give this a go and really excited as I am such a fan of anything zombie related. The idea of surviving in a dying world alone, where both the living and the dead are after you is such an insane and entertaining concept and so my expectations for this book was really high. But oh my god. No book in the last two years has ever disappointed me as much as this one. The storyline is so amazing, but the book had such a slow start and middle. 80% of the book talked about blogs and journalism and updating websites like??? First of all, why is that relevant and why is majority of the book talking about American politics?? The focus of the book was journalism and literal politics which bored me out of my mind. The writing is extremely repetitive too with focus on very trivial, irrelevant things with very long chapters (one chapter was 100 pages long). 

There were some things I enjoyed about the book. I think the plot-twists in this were great and unexpected. The characters were also likeable with fantastic personalities but what put me off them were their cringe blog posts. The things their ‘blog posts’ talked about were so dull and tedious. Also none of their jokes made me laugh. I thought the ending was a massive plot twist and extremely heart-breaking. It was very enjoyable, and I did not see it coming which gave the book a sense of mystery as there were multiple ways the story could have ended. But really, the ending is barely 20% of the book. I had to be bored, tired and cringed out first in order to reach the enjoyable parts which does not make it an overall pleasant read. 

Unfortunately, the book really let me down in multiple ways which is sad because the plotline is amazing. But the repetitive writing, minimal action scenes and focus on irrelevant topics made me want to finish the book just so I could never pick it up again. For a zombie apocalypse novel, it had very little action and gore which does not fit into the category. Very disappointed with this read and I do not recommend this book at all. The covid pandemic did better than this book tbh (lol jk). 

(I want the ten pounds back that I spent on this book).