Z-Minus 1 by Perrin Briar

Z-MINUS I by Perrin Briar
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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The end of the world comes slowly

The zombie apocalypse stuck Great Brittan​. A down on his luck drunk wakes in his crashed car. When he gets to his house, he finds his daughter and then his wife with knives in them but they suddenly come to life. In fighting to escape, his daughter sneezes on him. As he runs outside he finds the whole neighborhood has become the walking dead, except for his other daughter, the 8 year old one. Finding out he has 7 hours to live normal he tries to abandon her but decides to take her to a relative. What follows is his last 7 hours as a human and not a zombie as he tries to protect his daughter.

I am not a big zombie fan but I recently read one of the authors other books. I enjoyed this book. It shows the pain of alcoholism as well as how it starts under the story of the end of the world. It is part of a series but it clearly has a finish point in the book, we are not really left hanging.

Except for the violence, which could be strong for the children (at one point the father uses a motor car to take out zombies) this book could be read by anyone. If you enjoy zombie books this could be an interesting read.

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Review: Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress by Daniel D. Maurer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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I received a review copy of Endure from the AXP website. This is an honest review.

Endure is a series of six stories of people who have gone through extraordinary circumstances. In telling these stories, the author exposes us to what he calls Spiritual Assets. These assets are: gratitude, acceptance, hope, faith, forgiveness and love.

Each chapter opens with the explanation of the asset covered, then the story of the person. After this he does a question and answer with them and then explains why these are important. These are real life situations not some story made up to explain some point of a sermon.

The author tries and I feel succeeds, in not preaching the Christian Faith by showing how many religions have the same values. If I was writing this, I might not have done that, but I respect his faith and why he did it the way I did.

I would not recommend this book for children. There are some frightening scenes of the true violence that one man can inflict on another. Yet without those stories we would not have the examples of how these people are day by day, working out what they need to do to make it in this world.

It was a good book, in places I wanted him to get to the point a little quicker, that is why the loss of a star. That is more me than it would be the author.

Recommend (with the understanding about children) that this could be read by anyone looking to see how people recover and move on with life. There are elements of spirituality that may or not affect people not of faith, but I think they would enjoy as well.

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