The journal format is what's supposed to make this book different from all the other zombie lit out there. This book's gimmick is that it's the daily journal entries of a person who is trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. But this was just painfully, ridiculously bad. If a book isn't the best written but has a good story, or if the writing is gorgeous, but the story is kinda "meh", I can appreciate the book for what it is and move on. I have expectations, and I want them to be met, but I think that I'm willing to compromise. I don't think I'm the overly critical sort.
It's been a long time since a book has made me as angry as this one did. If I could give this book negative stars, I would. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: People interested in anything military might find their obsession with this series and maybe the plot explodes in the other parts, I have at the moment just read the first part and am tinkering with trying the second one or the other series, but I am not sure if it´s my thing if it´s not too technical and too one character-based for me. Preppers, veterans, and survivalists might love it more than the big names of the genre The military part and its realism are extreme, because Bourne was a real life-soldier and integrated much of his profound knowledge in the novel, giving it a kind of fictional autobiographic touch of how a specialist would deal with the situation, but ignoring some of the laws of storytelling made it much less successful than it could have been. With a second plotline and more action, this could have been much better and I´m honestly wondering why Bourne didn´t prepare more cliffhangers, introduced some more characters, added some conspiracy theory, described large scale military conflicts between the left superpowers (especially that because of his background), etc. Some people are pretty hard with this one, it certainly is no Zombie Survival guide and has no the living dead or resident evil quality, because it´s extremely focused on just one perspective, but it´s a nice addition for zombie addicts. Not as good as the milestones of the genre, because too focused on one POV Zombies and a bit too little trouble for the protagonist, but still a creative way to describe everyone´s favorite end of the world.
Just your average zombie survival autobiography.
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