In The End: Their fight for survival is only the beginning
eBook Review by author G. J. Stevens 
I’m an apocalyptic, dystopian kinda gal from time to time. Books written on the end of the world are interesting to many people like me because of the What If’s. How one would react to a particular situation has run through minds on a daily basis since the Doomsday folks began prepping. Maybe longer, I don’t know, but I can say that I’ve always wondered how I’d react. Then again, I’m the daughter of Marine.
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So, In the End: Their Fight for Survival Is Only the Beginning, there’s a group of friends who are enjoying a group getaway. They'd packed up and left civilization for some outdoor fun, that’s cut short. Indefinitely. The owner of their cabin bangs on the door and tells them to leave their key and bug out! When they try to gather information on what’s taken place, they can’t figure anything out, other than there may be an invasion of sorts, possibly WWIII. It turns out to be a viral attack that's produced a horde of zombies.
What’s good about In the End, is the nobody who becomes leader. Everybody cheers for the underdog, yeah? Logan carried no military training or weapons skills, he’s just an every day Joe Blow. As a reluctant leader, he attempts to guide the baffled group, but no one wants to listen to him, let alone believe him, yet they chose him! He does his best to protect his friends and they, in turn, get angry with him. One gal, Naomi wants to bash his face in on numerous occasions, but only because he’s right! While attempting to survive in a world where the government refuses to offer up assistance, and everything else is cut off, what’s a guy to do but shove on.
The world according to zombies is unceasingly fluctuating, so I admit I enjoyed the zombies not playing possum for long. Once they died, they returned in minutes. No play in-between. And since you can do what you want when creating a zompoc, that's exactly what G. J. Stevens did. These creatures didn't even die like usual zombies, making In the End pretty interesting.
Now for what I didn’t enjoy concerning this novel. Many authors have trouble with sharing instead of saying. We’ve all seen it, and most have even done it, including myself. Stevens, though sharing a crack of a story, didn’t present in a fashion that was easy to read and follow along. The way he described things, situations made little sense to me, resulting in confusion. For example, in chapter 20 a horde of zombies (I promise, no spoilers) is chasing after our survivors. Everyone’s running, while two are doing their best to keep a safe distance for protection. I don’t understand what was happening in that scene. Not one bit. One second, characters Andrew and Logan were running, then they were attempting to grab a hold of a friend’s hand, to escape the horde, as though on the back a truck/lorry? or something. But I thought they were all running on foot? So why did they have to reach down/out for someone?
Also, not explained was how their choice of weapons killed the dead. There was a girl who’d had an eye blown out, yet she was walking about. Hole in the head means brain is dead, yeah? So why didn't a shot to the head, directly in her eye kill her… re-kill her? Totally lost there, and it left me whelmed. Neither over or under, simply whelmed.
Lastly, is more like me being petty than something wrong with the story. So I listen to audiobooks during workouts, driving, etc. Paper/hardback books during the day and ebooks at night. Since In the End's an ebook I read in bed. My kindle is on dark mode, so as to not wake my hubby from the bright glow. That means black background, white lettering, but I couldn’t do it with this book. For some reason, in sporadic sections, this book went from being fine in dark mode to white, highlighted strips across a black canvas, making it impossible for me to read the words! As you can see, I even offer up an example of this issue. It drove me bonkers.
So, all in all, I can’t say In the End is a bad book, but it’s got some issues. Personally, how it got all those five-star reviews is questionable to me, making me think a load of friends read that puppy. I didn’t like it a ton, but it was okay. My few issues are more with the back workings than the actual story, so go ahead and try it for yourself. As for me folks, this is the end. Cheers!
In The End: Their Fight For Survival Is Only The Beginning
Written by G. J. Stevens
Published by Amazon Digital Services
Released November 2018
327 pages
I’m an apocalyptic, dystopian kinda gal from time to time. Books written on the end of the world are interesting to many people like me because of the What If’s. How one would react to a particular situation has run through minds on a daily basis since the Doomsday folks began prepping. Maybe longer, I don’t know, but I can say that I’ve always wondered how I’d react. Then again, I’m the daughter of Marine.This is In the End: Their Fight for Survival is Only the Beginning. #element-961d178e-7681-44dc-84db-e0e70bf4c1bf .waddons-blog-image.hideImage { display: none;}
So, In the End: Their Fight for Survival Is Only the Beginning, there’s a group of friends who are enjoying a group getaway. They'd packed up and left civilization for some outdoor fun, that’s cut short. Indefinitely. The owner of their cabin bangs on the door and tells them to leave their key and bug out! When they try to gather information on what’s taken place, they can’t figure anything out, other than there may be an invasion of sorts, possibly WWIII. It turns out to be a viral attack that's produced a horde of zombies. What’s good about In the End, is the nobody who becomes leader. Everybody cheers for the underdog, yeah? Logan carried no military training or weapons skills, he’s just an every day Joe Blow. As a reluctant leader, he attempts to guide the baffled group, but no one wants to listen to him, let alone believe him, yet they chose him! He does his best to protect his friends and they, in turn, get angry with him. One gal, Naomi wants to bash his face in on numerous occasions, but only because he’s right! While attempting to survive in a world where the government refuses to offer up assistance, and everything else is cut off, what’s a guy to do but shove on.
The world according to zombies is unceasingly fluctuating, so I admit I enjoyed the zombies not playing possum for long. Once they died, they returned in minutes. No play in-between. And since you can do what you want when creating a zompoc, that's exactly what G. J. Stevens did. These creatures didn't even die like usual zombies, making In the End pretty interesting.
Now for what I didn’t enjoy concerning this novel. Many authors have trouble with sharing instead of saying. We’ve all seen it, and most have even done it, including myself. Stevens, though sharing a crack of a story, didn’t present in a fashion that was easy to read and follow along. The way he described things, situations made little sense to me, resulting in confusion. For example, in chapter 20 a horde of zombies (I promise, no spoilers) is chasing after our survivors. Everyone’s running, while two are doing their best to keep a safe distance for protection. I don’t understand what was happening in that scene. Not one bit. One second, characters Andrew and Logan were running, then they were attempting to grab a hold of a friend’s hand, to escape the horde, as though on the back a truck/lorry? or something. But I thought they were all running on foot? So why did they have to reach down/out for someone?
Also, not explained was how their choice of weapons killed the dead. There was a girl who’d had an eye blown out, yet she was walking about. Hole in the head means brain is dead, yeah? So why didn't a shot to the head, directly in her eye kill her… re-kill her? Totally lost there, and it left me whelmed. Neither over or under, simply whelmed.
Lastly, is more like me being petty than something wrong with the story. So I listen to audiobooks during workouts, driving, etc. Paper/hardback books during the day and ebooks at night. Since In the End's an ebook I read in bed. My kindle is on dark mode, so as to not wake my hubby from the bright glow. That means black background, white lettering, but I couldn’t do it with this book. For some reason, in sporadic sections, this book went from being fine in dark mode to white, highlighted strips across a black canvas, making it impossible for me to read the words! As you can see, I even offer up an example of this issue. It drove me bonkers.
So, all in all, I can’t say In the End is a bad book, but it’s got some issues. Personally, how it got all those five-star reviews is questionable to me, making me think a load of friends read that puppy. I didn’t like it a ton, but it was okay. My few issues are more with the back workings than the actual story, so go ahead and try it for yourself. As for me folks, this is the end. Cheers!
In The End: Their Fight For Survival Is Only The BeginningWritten by G. J. Stevens
Published by Amazon Digital Services
Released November 2018
327 pages
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