Joseph Zuko’s debut novel released in 2015 and became the Best Selling beginning of The Infected series! Zuko went back over Jim’s First Day with the writing skills he’s learned after 8 books under his belt, polished it up and re-released in 2019On a day like any other, Jim Blackmore finds himself at ground zero of the zombie apocalypse. He is forced to run a blood-soaked gauntlet through a city … gauntlet through a city overrun by an insurmountable horde of the dead in a desperate attempt to reach his wife and two small children. As he fights to get home he discovers that the living are just as dangerous as the dead. But does Jim have the strength of will to survive the perilous journey?
New sneak peek of Joseph Zuko’s up coming novel. A few chapters from Sweet Home has been added to the end of this book. Read on to check out the next level of horror in the Zuko catalog.
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Boy what a day it has been for Jim. Never ending action with the infected all around Jim and his group. I sit here rooting for Jim to get to his final destination, only to scream because his journey is not over. If you love action and zombies and rooting for the average Jim, you’ll enjoy this series.
Nicely crafted zombie tale. Characters were well developed and unpredictable
Very good book
I have read a lot of the zombie genre & this was the best. Read the
whole series & it was very well written & nonstop crisis situations.
Just started this series and I plan to keep reading until I finish the series. I highly recommend this author and I love them all!
Could not make it past the first two chapters
I got this book for free from a Bookbub deal. I feel this book reads better than World War Z!
For starters, I get so many emails of Bookbub deals (which I subscribed to willingly) and now have dozens of ebooks to read. Often, free books sucker me in, and they sit on my shelf, waiting, unopened. I feel like I assign each book subconscious value based on how much I originally pay for it.
So for once, I feel like this was a book of tremendous value.
Yes, the first two chapters are really slow, and cover the main character Jim’s ordinary life as some sort of clerk in an office job. I kind of skimmed through Chapter 2. But at the end, boom! The action begins.
Chapter 3 was decent, but it wasn’t until Jim started running all over the city trying to reach his wife, crashing multiple cars, while fighting through hordes of zombie humans of different occupations and ages, as well as zombie animals, that I really began to appreciate Joseph Zuko’s writing style.
To be clear, there are many typos in this book. I counted between 30-50 typos. But since this was Joseph Zuko’s first book, and the combat and characters were so gripping, I easily ignored the typos. They didn’t really detract from the story. The pacing after Chapter 2 was actually great. The action and dialogue moved along very quickly yet didn’t feel rushed.
Many zombie books that I’ve read had really slow pacing. Other zombie series, like The Walking Dead, only showed life after the zombie apocalypse started. This, however, is different. You get to see the zombie apocalypse unfold on day one.
And it’s every bit as gruesome and sad as you’d expect it to be. If you don’t like a realistic zombie book, then this book isn’t for you.
The main character, Jim (I keep getting Jim Dattilo, author of Zombie Exodus, and Jim, the MC of this story, as well as Joseph Zuko, the author, mixed up, since their names all start with “J”, haha), is a good hero. He really tries to help other people, even though there were times when he couldn’t do so. As I’m reading, I can really get a sense of how chaotic the city has become.
I will note it seems there’s a religious villain in this series, and I find that a little cliche. Still, if you can ignore that and liked The Walking Dead or books with good action, story, and characters, then this book is for you.
I liked the characters
This story was scary, sickening and sad. Fast moving. I felt like I was right there running for my life as well! Thanks so much for sharing this.
This is not your typical zombie book. Beautifully written. Highly recommended.