Daybreak Zero

This is the second book in the Daybreak series. I've not read the first, and I'm not sure I will, not because the book is bad, but because if things are as grim as they are here, how much worse must it have been when things fell apart. Victories in Daybreak Zero are real, but partial and fleeting. The deaths of billions is not half so hard to take as the agonizing deaths of several characters. These unpleasant and extended scenes reminded me of Barne's Mother of Storms.

For those with a stronger constitution, this near future post-apocalyptic novel has a number of interesting SFnal ideas, an on-going and as-yet unresolved mystery of who is behind the goal to exterminate humanity, and plenty of action and political machinations. They're show more not zombies, but the Daybreakers and tribals are just as vicious and unrelenting, and dealt with in the same fashion as the Walking Dead. That in my mind is the weakest element of the book.

Recommended if you're a fan of the post-apocalyptic genre. show less

Not as good as Directive 51, the first book in the series, but still worth reading. Character development still is too thin, but the story moves along reasonably well and has a few new plot twists. The book leaves some key questions hanging. How did the EMP bombs get on the moon? How do the protagonists manage to move around at will and brainwash key players? Maybe these will be answered in the next volume of the series, which I hope does not continue the downward slide.

Sequel to Directive 51, a post-apocalypse novel in which the world is beginning to recover from the destruction of technological civilisation (or most of it) by an internet meme/cult. Daybreak. It turns out that Daybreak didn't end when it brought down 'the big system', it's still there and still capable of propagating itself. The remnants of the US struggle to bring themselves together against each other, against the tribes which are the remnant tools/agents of Daybreak seeking to destroy re-emerging technological civilisation (and bring about the complete genocide of humanity), and against neo-feudalists within. An engaging story that ends, not unexpectedly, unresolved. There will be at least one more sequel.

Read my complete review at SporadicReviews.com.