Author: Daniel Greene
Publisher: October 2018
Publication Date: Rune Publishing LLC
Steele and his followers retreat before the might of Colonel Jackson’s rogue military unit. Jackson is always two-steps ahead in their small apocalyptic war and Steele’s back is against the ropes. He must find a way to outlast his opponent while holding his loose confederation of allies and former enemies together or face certain annihilation.
Back in her small hometown of Hacklebarney, Iowa, Gwen struggles to convince her cautious neighbors to provide refuge for Steele’s haggard forces. If she doesn’t succeed, Jackson’s noose will tighten and her friends and loved ones will be crushed on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The remaining loyal United States military implements a daring plan to hold the nation’s eastern flank against the dead. Operation Homefront hinges on the successful training of the civilian population for war. Colonel Kinnick quickly finds that not everyone wants their help.
The Departing is the fourth book in the End Time Saga. If you had told me a few months ago that I would have stuck with a post apocalyptic series for this long, I would have called you crazy. But, here we are at book four and waiting to find out when book five will be coming out.
Reading one of these books feels like watching an entire season of a TV show. There is so much packed in each one with multiple perspectives. This book picks up right after the end of the third book. So, I can't recommend reading these out of order. The characters go through a lot of growth over the books and their motivations may not make sense to someone coming into the series later on.
There is a bit of a lack of undead in this installment. However, as I have said from the beginning, the books are less about the zombies and more about how the apocalypse affects the human condition. No one is safe in the series. No spoilers, but there was one death that had me choked up. I will miss that character.. If you like shows like The Walking Dead
, then I highly recommend this series. I really hope there is going to be a fifth book. I want to see what is next for these characters both good and evil.
Author: Daniel Greene
Publisher: Rune Publishing
Date of publication: February 2018
You either build your world or you burn in someone else's.
With every fleeting moment, the whole world draws closer to being overcome by the deadliest virus known to man.
Steele's family home lies in burnt ruins on the shore of Lake Michigan. His group hunts for his missing mother in the apocalyptic wilderness filled with the dead. Instead he finds a group of refugees badly in need of his skills learned in the shadow war on terror, for they are persecuted at every step by the Chosen, a group of fanatics hell-bent on creating God's Kingdom in the rubble of society.
Dr. Joseph Jackowski finds himself in a dangerous battle against both the deadly virus and the clock inside the bowels of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. His team struggles as their own members fall victim to the virus in a race to discover a vaccine.
Colonel Kinnick rushes his paltry forces into the rocky passes of Colorado to hold the dead off long enough for a vaccine to be found. If he fails, the Vice President will burn the entire Western Seaboard into the blazing inferno of a nuclear holocaust.
Who will rise? The Living or the Dead?
When I went into this series, I was sure I would never last to the third book. But, I have to say that this series has been a pleasant surprise. The Rising is the third book in the End Time series. It will not work well as a stand alone since it assumes you have read the first two books. This picks up pretty much right after the events of book two.
Being the third book, it's hard to talk plot without spoiling the first two books. But this time around, Steele and his crew face even more danger in the form of an evangelical cult. Joseph is fighting to make a vaccine and Colonel Kinnick is put into a battle that is set up to fail miserably. There is so much packed into this installment. When I finished listening to the audiobook, I felt like I had watched an entire season of "End Time, the TV series". Of course, the book ends on a major cliffhanger, so I will have to read book number four.
I think what has attracted me to this series is the way it looks at the real danger humans would face in an apocalypse. It turns out that our fellow humans pose more of a danger than any monster out there. It's also interesting to see which humans rise to the challenge and become heroes and which ones end up turning out to be villains. I highly recommend this one. The books keep getting better and better.
Author: Daniel Green
Publisher: Rune Publishing, LLC
Date of publication: May 2017
The dead have been ravaging the planet for months. Both the East and the West coasts of the United States have collapsed and the U.S. military is in full retreat. All their attempts to stem the tide of the dead have failed.
Former Counterterrorism Agent Mark Steele and his fellow survivors have been bushwhacked in the West Virginia hills. The fringe West Virginians are teaching him a valuable lesson in the new rules of the apocalypse. The mountain folk are as resilient as they are ruthless and Steele must find a way out to save his people.
In a desperate gamble to stop the virus, retired Air Force Colonel Michael Kinnick has been entrusted with finding Dr. Joseph Jackowski who’s gone missing in West Virginia. Kinnick’s depleted unit of Special Forces soldiers are to the breaking point as the dead assault them at every step.
Outside of Pittsburgh, Dr. Joseph Jackowski’s quest to find Patient Zero has stalled. Unwillingly conscripted into the National Guard, he has been enlisted into Colonel Jackson’s rapidly depleting force. As the military quarantine disintegrates around Pittsburgh, death marches closer, and time is running out.
Steele is forced to go further than he ever imagined in order to save his loved ones, but when he is done, will anyone still recognize him? Will he recognize them? And will he recognize himself?
In this thrilling sequel to End Time, Daniel Greene continues his fast paced and gripping apocalyptic saga. The Breaking, transports us to a near future composed of death, honor, destruction and hope as the United States falls and lives crumble before a devastating zombie virus.
The Breaking is the second book in the End Time Saga series. As I said in my review of the first book, End Time, I'm not usually into zombie books. However, I liked the first book enough to keep going with the series. This book definitely assumes you read the first one. So it doesn't hold up as a stand alone. This one picks up right after the cliffhanger from the first book and finds the virus spreading, the hunt for patient zero on going and the heroes finding out that there are worse enemies than the undead.
This book is long, but it is very fast paced and the time I spent listening to the audiobook flew by. It's full of action, danger and suspense. Once again, we follow several perspectives. Steele is, by far, my favorite character out of all of the main ones. That guy has more lives than a cat. I don't want to get into spoilers, but there were some tense moments that had me holding my breathe more than once. Some loyalties changed, which was surprising. Also, new allies join the crew.
This is a series I will be recommending to anyone who likes The Walking Dead or stories like that one. I will definitely be continuing with the series. The next book is The Rising, so stay tuned.
