It’s life or death… life.
Kate loves running. She’s gone from marathons to ultramarathons and knows what it takes to run a hundred miles at a time, but this is different.
This is twice as far as she’s ever run…
…and finding food is a problem.
Is it even possible?
You’ll love this unique take on the apocalypse because the struggle is unlike anything you’ve read before.
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When Kate and Frederico cut short their planned run after a heinous start and decided to get muffins, they had no idea they were about to start the longest ultra-marathon of their lives in a race to stay alive – and save their children!
In many ways this was a story about distance running punctuated with zombie encounters, and monsters of other kinds. People who don’t run often think of running as all being the same slough. One foot after the other. Miserable. Why do you do it? Why do you run? Especially when looking at the less pleasant aspects like blisters, complaining joints, and lost toenails. While this book goes into a lot of that, it shows the other side of running too. Sure there are miles where you fight for every step but there are also miles that fly by. Sometimes you’ll glance at your watch or see a mile marker and realize 8 miles have passed in the blink of an eye.
Running can be therapeutic, philosophical, bring you face to face with inner jackalopes who will have their say. Friends like Stout can make a lifelong impression in the few hours they run by your side. This run is interspersed with flashbacks that give a deeper connection to the main characters and help the reader understand what keeps them running and where they found those reservoirs of strength. Distance running has a way of stripping pretense bare and bringing a person face to face with who they really are deep inside.
The one thing I would really like to know is what kind of watch Kate is using – that battery life is truly impressive!
I enjoy reading unusual zombie themed books and this one definitely qualifies. It focuses on two main characters who are ultra marathoners. I knew nothing about the sport prior to this. Zombies are present and not the shambling Romero types. They are blind but have acute hearing and are quick. They are drawn to cars .They also seem to communicate somewhat.
The basis of the story is a mom and her running friend are traveling to her sons college to rescue (?) him. It’s a 200 mile trip and they are running almost the whole way!
Very centered on running which is the main element of the book. If this is of interest to you, you would really enjoy this.
I’m always interested in a new take on the zombie novel, and this is definitely an original. A mother has to travel on foot more than 200 miles to find her son in a world overrun by zombies. Enjoy.
This is one of the best zombie apocalypse book I’ve read in a very long time. Believable characters. I learned a lot about long-distance running and it was an original slant to zombie survival strategy.
I couldn’t put it down. It was a race to the end! (Pun intended)
This book is a really good read. Thank you!
I know very little about ultra runners so I found it a little unrealistic of them running 200 miles in just a few days with all of the injuries and exhaustion. And I can’t imagine the drug dealers Letting them go without tailing them to make sure they were killed by the zombies. But it was a different twist to an end of the world book.
This book just held my attention from the beginning to the end, I hated to stop reading it even though it was costing me sleep. I love the story line and the main character, you must read this story from the very beginning starting with the prequel so that you can really get a sense of who and what’s going on, you won’t be sorry, one of the best stories out there.