This book was a bit of an impulse buy, largely made because I was told I could get a book for free as I had two from a 3 for 2 section. All I can say is that I am glad I effectively got it for free as opposed to paying good money for it.The concept itself is a good one, collecting an anthology of material from different authors and putting it all together like documents gathered after the event of the crisis. The effect was to be something along the lines of World War Z, and I was looking forwar...

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!, on first glance, is a follow-up volume to Stephen Jones' MAMMOTH BOOK OF ZOMBIES, a hefty horror anthology that came out back in the 1990s. I adored that book, but this is a different beast entirely: all of the stories share a world, telling one long-running story via various epistolary, modern-day means. So we get diary extracts, blog entries, tweets, social media posts, video logs, and medical reports. That in itself is a little gimmicky, but I still found it preferable to

I love apocalyptic stories in general and zombies in particular. They scare the crap out of me, but I love every Romero film, have been reading the Walking Dead since 2006, and will dump friends and disown relatives in order to watch a new episode of AMC's Walking Dead. Seriously. When the new season starts, just don't f***ing bother me or try to get a hold of me during air time.Zombie novels are like sex and pizza.Even when they're bad, they're still kind of good.With some exceptions, and this

Interesting concept, trying to transmit the "found footage" style we commonly see in many horror films to the printed media. Some parts of it where much more interesting than others. Media reports and emails about the origins of the disease, accounts of survivors and invesgigation by medical and research personnel, mixed with some more boring stuff like unsent letters to a mother or a friend. If you made it to the end you'll agre the final plot twist is quite... unique, leaving you with quite a

I saw this book on the shelf and my first thought was, neat cover! This was followed immediately with my second thought of, good Lord what a cheesy and pathetic name! I figured that I would give it a chance anyway since this appeared to be an anthology. Which I guess it is...kind of, but not really. Instead of multiple short stories about a zombie apocalypse its a bunch of short vignettes about different aspects of the same story, by different authors. I know, I know what you're thinking, "I swe...

This is a pretty solid entry in the new zombie genre. They're not very typical for the undead, which might bother purists, but I found it a delightful twist (though occasionally inconsistent-seeming). The shifting perspectives did rob some emotional depth as characters were killed off suddenly and unceremoniously -- often off-screen or by just not mentioning them again! There weren't many people, living or otherwise, to root for. I had hoped that the scientists exchanging emails in the first pag...

Shitfuck!! One of the best zombie books with the odd nice touch of humour. Which I think you need when the world is going to shit.

This is a great idea, similar to World War Z but mostly better executed. It starts off in a dystopian Britain (worrying prophetic signs of no-deal Brexit there), and gradually spreads around the world as a zombie plague strikes.It's interesting as it was written as a collaborative project, so the assorted diaries, blogs, emails, phone transcripts etc from different people all have a genuinely different feel to them. They come together very well in telling an effective story, with things getting

I bought this book expecting something like Max Brooks' World War Z, which is pretty much my favorite zombie book of all time. The reality of this book was much less.I get the whole "compilation" format, but given even that, it was poorly written. Some of the longer pieces were simply too boring to finish, and the writing was ridiculous. Seriously, who continues to type text messages as they're being attacked by a zombie? "Oh no, she's noshing on my intestines. Ouch! I can feel the hunger taking...

I was hoping for a book similar to World War Z or Dead Inside Do Not Enter Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse. Instead, I got a book that started off strong, then...kind of fell off the wagon.The book sets up its premise wonderfully: an ancient church is unearthed, which released fleas that carried the plague. Correspondences and reports fly back and forth to piece together a timeline of events, the reaction of the first on the scene, then the epidemic spreads...then you get to the second half of

Easy read! Even though it was choppy felt it was for more of a teen book. Ideal for readers first zombie book. I didn't like how it went from normal text to someone's email to someone's social media to someone's handwritten diary

Stephen Jones has done something quite interesting here - arranged for a group of authors to submit short stories in the form of documents (including twitter conversations, transcripts of police tapes, personal diaries and letters) to form a contiguous narrative of a zombie pandemic that erupts in London and the events of the following weeks.The 480 page narrative that results holds together well with good internal consistency and a tone whereby events are clearly out of the control of the prota...

The significant thing about this book is that, although there is a clearly defined sequence of events, they're told via a multitude of police reports, diary entries, office memos, newspaper articles, texts, tweets and other first-person accounts - all written by different authors. This all kept what could be argued to be a slightly tired genre an interesting and very easy to read chronicle of an end of a world. Excepting one or two recurring diary entries by specific characters, each character e...

Bleak and sad. That's the words I would use to describe this book about the zombie apocalypse. I guess you are asking, "Well, it is a zombie novel. What were you expecting?" That's a fair question, and, truthfully, I think I was expecting there to be some glimmer of hope and optimism. Silly me! Not that the whole doom and gloom bleakness of the book makes the book any less readable. This book is not so much scary but sad. Told over the course of several months, numerous characters through the us...

Ridiculously bland title aside (seriously “Zombie Apocalypse!” sounds like a super cheesy B movie from the 1950’s), I liked this book.Now, I will always be one the first people to side with others who complain that the zombie genre has become far too crowded with sub-par stories and writing skills that are lacking. Just look up the word “zombie” and you are bound to find 100’s, if not 1000’s of both full length novels and short stories...most of which are cheap and hideously bad.What comes acros...

Will humanity triumph over the worldwide zombie plague, or will the walking dead inherit the earth?It seems only fair that the first book that I’m looking at is the one that gave me the idea in the first place. There were a number of book launches at this year’s FantasyCon in Nottingham, and this book immediately caught my eye. With a few notable exceptions, I’m not a huge fan of anthologies. As a rule, I prefer to read novels written by one author, but in an effort to broaden my horizons I deci...

This should get some award for having the most unimaginative title ever. For such a creative book--and I was actually suprised, judging this entirely on cover and title--I was pleasantly shocked. I also thought this was just a standard gory short story collection, but nope. Totally wrong there too. There are multiple authors, since this is a book in multiple formats--no straight up narrative--handwritten diary entries, video clips, newspaper stories, voicemails, emails, emails, instant messages,...

Lured in by the cool cover, I was expecting a zombiefest worthy of a read. I was very disappointed. This book is trying so hard to a UK version of 'World War Z' and it doesn't even get close. I found myself bored when reading. BORED! When reading a book about Zombies! What!? The way the zombies came into being is good, I can go with that. Having it written by different authors, is an interesting idea but doesn't quite work. It feels all over the place. And why do some zombies act well, zombie l

OK.. so I was in Barnes and Nobles browsing at some boring titles(i was having an off day) and this book draw me in like a moth to a fire. First of the cover was very gruesome and creepy(in a good way of course!) and after I read the back and found out it(the zombie apocalyose) starts in London using a series of documents and tweets and stuff, I was "Whoa! Now THAT sound interesting" I bought it a couple of seconds later. The book had an interesting premise and delivered it almost perfectly. Som...

What I find most interesting about this book is the reactions and reviews. People tweeting and texting as the zombies are eating them? Totally likely. People who doubt this honestly need to spend one day in a classroom with the youth of today to realise that yes, they compulsively tweet, text, and blog every mundane thought and action they have. And I'd like to see them deny the youth their "right" to do it, too. Anyway, I really enjoyed the format. The whole story told via several mediums and d...