Winner of the 2012 PRG Reviewer's Choice Award in the Sci-Fi Genre.

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PA novels are often about cataclysmic events, survivors fending off dangers at every page, zombies attacks, aliens destroying everything for inscrutable reasons, or as a f More...

What A Jewel!

This is quite simply a brilliant sci-fi novel and story.

It is a post-apocalyptic vision that is stunning in its breadth and complexity. It easily rivals the power of Stephen King's THE STAND and Neville Shute's ON THE BEACH.

Animals are suddenly and mysteriously dying by the thousands and soon the people follow. Only Dan Amenta and his wife and daughter seem to have survived. They find themselves alone on the planet in Switzerland and begin the search for other survivors.

Massimo Mari More...

Daimones was a pleasant surprise. English is not my language but reading the book by Massimo Marino was simple and addictive. From the very beginning, and until the end, the rhythm is tight, and the writing evocative. The plot has a strong American footprint: I have readily associated "Daimones" with Stephen King, for the strength of the characters, and Cormac McCarthy (The Road), for the suggestive places descriptions and the post-apocalyptic scenarios. I liked better the descriptions than the More...

What would you do if You Woke One Day to find your life had Completely Changed?

That’s exactly what happens to Dan, his wife Mary, and their daughter Annah, in this debut novel by Massimo Marino. This book gives the reader a different view of the apocalypse.

Dan and his family had the almost-perfect life in the French countryside until a mysterious windstorm in February. Nobody realized that anything unusual had happened until it was time to drive Annah to school. Vehicles of every type littered t More...

Daimones is not just a story. Massimo Marino takes you to a place that is frightening beyond measure and as you will know, then forget that this drama is based on science fiction, you are able to feel the emotions of every character, from Dan who is married to Mary and is the father of a preteen Annah ~ to every character that follows. The reactions of each are so real that you begin to imagine the unimaginable possibility of the world as we know it, ending. Well done!

The ending was not what I expected. What a great ending it was. I am still thinking about it. The plot is basic. Kill mostly all the humans, except for the ones you want to create a new human race. This book put a twist on who they picked, and genetics has a big role in the book. The story also includes a man with 2 wives. This is not an easy thing to discuss. However the author did such a great job of making it necessary that even I accepted it.

The author also made Dan a great character and I More...

The day after Dan Amenta loses his job, a windstorm sweeps through his city. The next morning, human civilization as he knows it is gone. People are dead, and as far as he knows, only he, his wife, and his daughter have survived. DAIMONES traces the survival of Dan and his family as they search for survivors and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the annihilation of the human race.

DAIMONES is well-written and well edited. Massimo does a great job of getting the reader into Dan’s head. In part More...

I'm not sure if this book was written in another language and then translated but there are several sections where the sentences just do not flow as well it should. I would have loved to given this book the full five stars because the story deserves it but the editing didn't do it justice.

There's a very Hitchcock feel to this story. Imagine waking up one morning and you're not sure if you'll live to see the end of the week. There were bits when the pace is as fast as the newer Terminator movies More...

Daimones begins with Dan being fired from his job. Though it's a fairly ordinary situation and the author emphasises this ordinariness with writing that details the simple perceptions that make up our daily life, for Dan, it's the beginning of a much greater change. He has barely managed to come to terms with his new situation, hasn't even told his twelve year old daughter, when his concerns fade into insignificance in light of a complete upheaval to the world order. After a bad storm, his famil More...

Daimones is a polarizing novel. I believe that though I neither loved Daimones nor hated it, the ends of the spectrum will be the reality of other readers. Daimones is a reflective novel. Set in a post-apocalyptic world it is rife with symbolism. Marino and Stroud set a tone of an event that could really happen prefaced with real news stories. Could Dan have stopped the oncoming apocalypse if only he had given his attention to the world around him and not to the co-worker who was kissing tushie? More...

Diamones Trilogy #1 - Massimo Marino

I was lucky enough to receive this free in exchange for an honest review, and found it to be an enjoyable read. The story begins with absolutely zero indication of what is to come. And what is to come is a story of vast dimensions.

This book is challenging to review without including spoilers, which I try to avoid whenever possible. Interestingly, the longer I think about the story the more details I discover to have been hidden in plain sight. I was so focus More...

I was really glad to win this book, my thanks to the author!

Dan is a socially aware character with a tendency toward honesty and frankness that translates to outspokenness in the workplace. He seems familiar and likeable. Once certain events happen in the exposition, it is surprising that the family did not react more emotionally to the stresses around them, but I detected a strong sense of bemusement and detachment as the events unfolded.

Ironically the main character links his survival skills t More...

Daimones by Massimo Marino

This story offers a unique perspective on how one family handles the end of the world as they know it.

Instead of a world-wide sweeping account of what happens, this story centers on one family. They are going about their daily lives when overnight, everything changes. I got involved in these characters. I felt their angst. I was invested in their daily lives. Then suddenly, the world changed.

I was with them as they accepted their new reality. I was with them when they More...

I loved reading this book. Some parts of it held my attention like a vice. I can still hear the roar of roller blades, the shatter of glass, the cawing of circling crows.
Some passages needed a touch more editing. However, the little stutters in the flow, the very occasional clumsy phrase, certainly didn't spoil the book. I guess it might if you happen to be the sort of grammarian that suffers pain from every linguistic deviation, but then you must often be short of reading.
I had the constant nag More...

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I loved the early part of this book and thought it brilliantly conceived, well thought out and the plot wonderfully structured. What I didn’t like was the authors need to try and explain everything that comes in the final chapters of the book! This final segment kind of let everything down and left me feeling cold. I am not going to give anything away but as soon as Marino starts building the foundations for an explanation, the book begins to More...

Recently, I have had the immense pleasure of reading Daimones, by Massimo Marino. We begin with excerpts of real news articles about the death of thousands of fishes and birds. For those of you who keep up with current events, you will have noticed that the internet has been peppered these past few years with such articles.

Our main character Dan is a loving family man who does the daily drone of going to work. What I really enjoyed at the beginning of the book is the description of the work envi More...

This was a really good story - well written, well edited, and different from other books I have read - not to say it was totally original, but from my point of reference I have not read one similar.

The flow of this book was different than I am used to. Generally, they start slow and build up to the climax. I found myself totally interested in this one from the start, but about a third of the way it started to get a bit dull and stayed that way until the last quarter, then got really exciting.

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I read the synopsis of this book and was interested in reading it. I message the author for a copy in return for a review.

Being a fanatic about the genre, I thought I would really like this book. It had an interesting concept, but the writing was a big turn off.

There were parts of the book that were interesting (vert few), but they were not enough to keep me going.

I felt like the book wasn't edited at all because there were way too many gramatical mistakes, and too many fragmanted sentences. A More...

Overall plot - There was a Nicole Kidman movie many years ago, The Invasion, about people who fall asleep and die. This book was a lot like that and had many different twists. Dan's day goes from bad to worse and he faces all sorts of challenges.

Characters - I really liked the fact that Dan had his family to rely on and that they attempted to 'handle' the issues they were facing. Luck wasn't on their side but the writer's way of keeping together was touching.

Writing style - This was a action boo More...

First of all let me just say that the main reason why I enjoyed this book was because it wasn’t the overly done, end of the world novel we’re probably so tired of seeing or reading about. Don’t get me wrong, I love zombies just as much as the next gal, but honestly, everyone’s done it already. This story is original and different, which was incredibly refreshing.

As I read, there were times when I began to envision myself in the protagonist shoes and let’s just say it wasn’t very pleasant. I don’ More...

What motivates a given character’s actions? Dan was driven to doing anything and everything to make sure his family survived. He did, what he had to.

Did you find that the cover and title represented what the story was really about? I liked the cover but not too sure how the title fits in. As far as I know Daimones was the title of a music album. Somehow I missed this connection with the story and how aliens could be called this.

What did you think of the story structure? It was pretty much a str More...

dai·mon (dmn) also de·mon or dae·mon (dmn)
n. Greek Mythology
1. An inferior deity, such as a deified hero.
2. An attendant spirit; a genius.

I should have looked that up before I read the book because otherwise you don't find out until the very end. I struggled with this book the first 35 pages as Massimo Marino set up the story. I don't know what he could have done differently but I was extremely bored with it. But then it happened! And I couldn't put the book down. As Dan and his family explored More...

What do you think is the climax of the book and why. I guess, the climax would be when Dan talked with the aliens.

Who do you think the author intended to read this book and why? I would assume he meant it for those who like aliens and stories about the world coming to an end.

If you could only save one character from the book, which one would it be and why? Annah - She would start a new beginning for the human race.

Is the title a good one or a poor one and why? The title is a little confusing. A More...

List the characters and describe them. Dan - Husband and father. He was a physicist and he was fired from his job. Mary - Wife, mother and school teacher. Annah - 12 year old daughter of Dan and Mary. Laura - Young, pretty student at the university. She lived with Dan's family.

What was the mystery was and how it was solved. Dan met with the aliens. They told him, what happen and why. Then told him why he was one of the selected ones.

What problems does one of the characters have, and how does he More...

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, having been to Geneva many times it was easy to imagine the setting. A well rounded story that pulled me in early on and resulted in me reading it quickly in a couple of sessions ( I also had one of those stay up too late sessions to finish the last few chapters). Great effort, oh and it was free!

How I review...
1 star - binned it before half way, please don't write anymore!!!
2 stars - finally binned it after really trying, I mean really trying and I hate to not fi More...

Daimones by Massimo Marino is a post-apocalyptic book with a slightly different take on the storyline. It was a great read and I found it hard to put down once I started reading the book.

The author is an excellent story teller, weaving a tail of survival which was well thought-out and developed. The story was deep but it was also easy to follow. I often found myself pondering what he said and thinking wow.

I really enjoyed the characters. They were very believable and easy to relate to. Massimo M More...

Which characters do you particularly admire or dislike? I would definitely pick Dan. He did everything in his power to make sure his family stayed safe.

Do you find the characters convincing? Although the situation is not real, I think the story reflects the drastic measures one would take to save his family.

Make a list of facts you learned from the story Dan worked at a place called CERN and he was fired. He was a physicist. Joe and Beth died in their beds. Thousands of winged black birds fell More...

What were the main themes of the book? The main themes of the book were, all types of animals dropping dead. Then it escalated into billions of people dying

Describe 2 different settings or locations. When Dan went next door to Joe and Beth's house to find them dead in their bed. The interstate was lined with multiple car crashes in every direction.

Were you able to connect with the main character and why? I was able to connect with Dan. He went into survival mode immediately, just as I would.

Whic More...

I was really blown away by this book. I really liked it a lot. First let me say that I don't give drawn out technical reviews about the protagonist and antagonist etc etc...blab blab. I don't like reading them and wont write one. I want to know if a book was enjoyed by someone with similar tastes as my own. I have to say that if you liake post apocalyptic stories you will love this book. The first couple chapters were a little rough...but it quickly picked up and was smooth sailing from then on. More...