Zero Day by Bobby Adair
Books 1 in the Slow Burn series
Genre: zombie apocalyptic fantasy
Format: ebook
Books 1 in the Slow Burn series
Genre: zombie apocalyptic fantasy
Format: ebook
About Zero Day:
Survive the infection! Survive the Infected!
A new flu strain has been spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Disturbing news footage is flooding the cable news channels. People are worried and frightened.
But Zed Zane is oblivious. He needs to borrow rent money from his parents. He gets up Sunday morning, drinks enough tequila to stifle his pride and heads to his mom’s house for a lunch of begging, again.
But something is wrong. There’s blood in the foyer. His mother’s corpse is on the living room floor. Zed’s stepdad, Dan is wild with crazy-eyed violence and attacks Zed when he comes into the house. They struggle into the kitchen. Dan’s yellow teeth tear at Zed’s arm but he grabs a knife and stabs Dan, thirty-seven times, or so the police later say.
With infection burning in his blood, Zed is arrested for murder but the world is falling apart and he soon finds himself back on the street, fighting for his life among the infected who would kill him and the normal people, who fear him.
Source: Info in the "About Zero Day" was taken from GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18633274-zero-day on 07/04/2023.
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My Thoughts:
Zombie apocalypse story.
The story parallels closely to the covid pandemic that you can't help but feel it! But this book was first published in 2013. Earily prophetic? Almost...
I wasn't sure if this book was fast-paced because I was reading it on my holiday and didn't have to put it down because I gotta go to work, or not... But I got through with it pretty quickly.
Plot. Now, there isn't much of a plot. The world as we knew it ended. Zed and company are trying to survive. And they are still trying. That's it. However, I was not looking for plots in fantasy stories. It is different when it comes to crime stories, for example. Or mystery thrillers. It would have been good to have a plot, but it is not the end of the world if it doesn't (pun intended). This book was still an enjoyable read.
Quantitative Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4
Character development = 4
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 3
World building = 5
Cover art = 3
Pace = 4
Plot = 2
Character development = 4
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 3
World building = 5
Cover art = 3
Pace = 4
Plot = 2
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Meet The Author
About Bobby Adair:
A bio is a weird thing to write.
Just trying to imagine presenting the highlights of ME sets off alarm bells in my head. Why would anybody want to know anything about me? What about me is remarkable enough to tell?
When I think about these questions, I recall lying on my bed back in high school, headphones muffed over my ears, heavy metal blasting through my head. As with most teens, music’s power seduced me, and as I listened, I found myself admiring the albums' cover art (yeah, I’m old enough that I used to by LP’s) and I found myself reading about the singers and guitar players and drummers in the liner notes. Why? Because those musicians had created something that was deeply personal, passionate, and wonderfully emotional, and they’d shared it with the world. They’d shared it with me.
It made me want to know them through more than just their music. So, I read.
Through the years, I found myself reading about writers I’d enjoyed, historical figures I’d admired, politicians who weren’t dipshits, and business leaders who’d built great companies. Again, why? Who the hell knows? We’re all just people. I think we find each other interesting. We like to feel connected.
And that was my answer, at least as to the WHY.
On the WHAT I can say about me, for those who feel moved by my work: I’ll give it a quick go.
I was born an Air Force brat and lived in a dozen states before I graduated high school. I’ve worked my way through a wide variety of jobs, left most on a whim, owned businesses, lived through times when I had more money than I knew what to do with, and worried my way through times when I wondered how I’d pay the rent.
Life has been boring at times, and it’s been plenty exciting, too. So far.
I’ve traveled to India, stood atop the tallest mountains around, swam with sharks, smarted-off to cops, and been arrested. I’ve tried beer and weed, but never made a thing of either one. I’ve been brushed too close by death a few times. Thankfully, doctors, EMT’s, and nurses were kind enough to put all the pieces together again. I've ridden my bike so deep into the mountains it felt like I was alone on the edge of heaven, and I've watched the red sun sinking on an evening so clear it looked like it was falling off the edge of the world.
I’ve always had a hard time being where I am, wherever that is. My daydreams forever call from just over the horizon.
I’ve been asked by a dozen bosses where I see myself in five years, and I've lied every time, always telling them what they wanted to hear. Because the only thing I knew for sure, was that I wanted to be anywhere but there.
FTC Disclosure:
The various copy(ies)/format(s) of this book were bought with private funds.
No money received for this review.
The various copy(ies)/format(s) of this book were bought with private funds.
No money received for this review.
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