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A review by roxyrolla
End Dayz by Kellie Sheridan
3.0
I received this novella through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
When I started reading [b:End Dayz|17210281|End Dayz (The Hitchhiker Strain, #0.5)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1357397575s/17210281.jpg|23691500], I had no idea what I was getting into. I think I probably read the synopsis when I downloaded it from Netgalley, but I'd promptly forgotten all about it until a few days ago. Sometimes it's better to go into a book with no expectations whatsoever, but I think in the case of [b:End Dayz|17210281|End Dayz (The Hitchhiker Strain, #0.5)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1357397575s/17210281.jpg|23691500], I probably would have read it differently had I known first off that it's a novella, and second of all that it's a prequel to [b:Mortality|16282078|Mortality (The Hitchhiker Strain, #1)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1355160602s/16282078.jpg|21985149].
There are four different narrators telling four different versions of events in differing styles. Pierce is visiting America from the UK, and he writes letters back to his girlfriend describing the situation across the Atlantic. Belle's story is told through a series of diary entries. Alex, again, is a letter writer, only he's writing letters to his father, whom his family has been separated from, and leaving the letters in symbolic places. And finally, Zack's story is told in a Mission Report. This style of storytelling is where [a:Kellie Sheridan|6579646|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1370747712p2/6579646.jpg] excels, as it is very unique and each voice is distinguishable from the others.
I think the author does a satisfactory job of world building in a post-apocalyptic setting, but I would have liked to see more embellishment, more description of the zombies and explanation of the vaccine created by the American government. That being said, my interest is piqued, and although I was not interested in starting any zombie series at the moment, I might be compelled to pick up [b:Mortality|16282078|Mortality (The Hitchhiker Strain, #1)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1355160602s/16282078.jpg|21985149] in the future.
When I started reading [b:End Dayz|17210281|End Dayz (The Hitchhiker Strain, #0.5)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1357397575s/17210281.jpg|23691500], I had no idea what I was getting into. I think I probably read the synopsis when I downloaded it from Netgalley, but I'd promptly forgotten all about it until a few days ago. Sometimes it's better to go into a book with no expectations whatsoever, but I think in the case of [b:End Dayz|17210281|End Dayz (The Hitchhiker Strain, #0.5)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1357397575s/17210281.jpg|23691500], I probably would have read it differently had I known first off that it's a novella, and second of all that it's a prequel to [b:Mortality|16282078|Mortality (The Hitchhiker Strain, #1)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1355160602s/16282078.jpg|21985149].
There are four different narrators telling four different versions of events in differing styles. Pierce is visiting America from the UK, and he writes letters back to his girlfriend describing the situation across the Atlantic. Belle's story is told through a series of diary entries. Alex, again, is a letter writer, only he's writing letters to his father, whom his family has been separated from, and leaving the letters in symbolic places. And finally, Zack's story is told in a Mission Report. This style of storytelling is where [a:Kellie Sheridan|6579646|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1370747712p2/6579646.jpg] excels, as it is very unique and each voice is distinguishable from the others.
I think the author does a satisfactory job of world building in a post-apocalyptic setting, but I would have liked to see more embellishment, more description of the zombies and explanation of the vaccine created by the American government. That being said, my interest is piqued, and although I was not interested in starting any zombie series at the moment, I might be compelled to pick up [b:Mortality|16282078|Mortality (The Hitchhiker Strain, #1)|Kellie Sheridan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1355160602s/16282078.jpg|21985149] in the future.