Like the previous two books, Shattered Hourglass continues the mix of zombies with military hardware and gun savvy author that has made the series so much fun. I would personally have preferred sticking more closely to Kil, and sending him on more adventures (he spends 3/4 of the book inside a nuclear sub), but the shift in story telling style wasn't overly jarring. It's not bad, but it lends a different feel to this book over the previous two. We still get the journal perspective of the main character, Kil, but it's mixed in with the perspective of other characters - John, his tech savvy bunker mate, members of two different special ops teams, and others. Shattered Hourglass is a departure from the previous two books, in that it steps back from the first person, journal style that was prevalent in the first two books to a more conventional 3rd person, character-hopping book. So I've been waiting for this book, the apparent wrap up of the trilogy, somewhat impatiently for over a year. The second book, in particular, is one of my favorites - I really dug the combination of first person, journal style narrative, behind enemy lines zombie survival mixed in with high tech military hardware - Predator drones dropping bombs on zombie hordes and what not. Bourne's Day by Day Armageddon series - here's links to my reviews of the first and second books.
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