| Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile (Book 2) |  | Author: J. L. Bourne
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Edition: Original
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 143917752X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781439177525
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Publication Date: July 13, 2010
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The first book of Day by Day Armageddon took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year's resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, day by day. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling underground cult classic, Day by Day Armageddon begins where the first novel left off.
BEGIN INTERCEPT
Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.
INTERCEPT COMPLETE
Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility.
But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?
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 Had a sort of slow start, great mid, and a rather exciting, but yet pressimistic ending. September 4, 2010
D. Allen
The second part of Day by Day follows the same protagonist from the first novel who is keeping a journal of his day by day life in a world full of zombies. Of course, at first the world wasn't filled with zombies, but as the days go by, zombies soon take over the world. The second book starts off right where the first ended. The protagonist and his friends are at Hotel 23 a long abandoned missile silo.
What I liked about the second is that the author did a really great job of keeping up the momentum of the first book. It was exciting, and you always wanted to keep reading on just to find out what's next. The book starts off rather slowly, in my opinion, and then right around the middle, it gets very exciting with action and a sort of realistic survival of one man versus the world of zombies. By the end of the book, I felt like there was a certain excitement but also skepticism about the future of the series.
I won't ruin the book, but to put it as a mild spoilers, the end of the book plays off that the nature of zombies, the cause of it, is due to some extraterrestrial origin. Of course, the way it is written, it sounds exciting, but I'm also a bit wondering how the author will play it off in the third book. I only hope that it doesn't turn outstandingly ridiculous and unbelieving.
Overall the book is excellent. I can't wait for the next, and I found that over time, it appears the zombie franchise is getting better and better.
DBDA: Beyond Exile September 3, 2010
crwilli
Excellent story. Reread book 1 before picking up Beyond exile and just finished it(in three days!) It was extremely hard to put down. can't wait for book 3!
 different than the first September 2, 2010
G. Brothers
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really liked the first book. a raw feel to it, just as if someone was writing a journal during a zombie apocalypse.
At the end of the first book was an excerpt from the next installment. That seems to have fallen by the wayside.
Second novel picks up where first left off. It loses that journal feel but still tries to continue in the journal, first person perspective.
It is an ok read but what made the first book a can't put down is not there.
There will be another as you will be able to tell at the end. It is a good series but seems that the originality was spent on the first installment.
Now if someone could convince Max Brooks to continue with his oral histories of the World War Z, that would be great.
Good story August 31, 2010
S. Bricker (Mid TN)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed reading this book. The story was good with a couple of new twists on the theme. I did not like the ending. (No spoiler) I don't subscribe to the final thought that was presented in this book. Other than that, it was worth the read.
I'm gonna get blasted....I can see it coming August 30, 2010
Felicia Tiller (Washington, D.C.)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
CONTAINS SPOILERS CONTAINS SPOILERS CONTAINS SPOILERS
Moving right along....
I know I am gonna get blasted here, given all of the 5-star ratings for this book. I'm Ok with that, because I struggled with writing an honest review because I wasn't thrilled with the book, and writing a lukewarm review because I heart JL Bourne and didn't want to piss him off. Honesty has won out in this epic struggle. But hey, JL? I still heart you, man.
Another reviewer, lou villaflor says:
"Big fan of the first book (and the zombie genre) so I couldn't wait for this second book. For those that have read the first book, Bourne doesn't disappoint as takes you through a journey of survival but the book literally dumps the reader in the last 30-50 pages(can't tell because I'm reading from a Kindle). It's almost like Bourne had to go somewhere and rushes through the ending. For example, they are attacked by an unknown and unexplained party with high tech weapons, they shut down the fort, evacuate, fight off the Z horde, end up in the carrier base and is forced to go to China-all this with very scant depth-it leaves you empty; especially after you've been on this great journey with the main character. WTF?
3 STARS IS ABOUT RIGHT."
I could not agree more with every single point, though I think it was more than the last 30-50 pages that are...off.
I totally heart JL and was waiting with trembling fingers to get my hands on a copy of this, as the first book was so entirely fabulastic that I just KNEW this book was gonna be ace. It was not.
It wasn't a BAD book, it just wasn't up to par with the first one. It DID feel rushed and incomplete, and the entire middle section of the book (where our hero is trying to get back to Hotel 23) is long, needlessly drawn out and kind of goes not really anywhere, but has threats and story lines that could go somewhere, but do not. It was like 3/4 of the second book was nothing more than a set up for the third.
I assume these threads will be picked up in the third book, which of course I will read - because I think I have, like, OCD or something, and I need the closure - but I wasn't thrilled with this. I still heart JL though. For realsies.
I will say, however, that I don't think I saw even one teeny little editing mistake, which makes me very, very happy.
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