THE EIGHTH DAY by Donovan Gray

BLURB:

Tonight, the world ends. Billions will die, and I am the cause of it all. Every living thing, every human, will cry to the heavens – helpless, hopeless, doomed. To know why, you have to go back to another, simpler time.

I was a boy. I remember my family, hanging helplessly from the eaves of the porch of our ranch. And I remember the Preacher, slipping the noose around my neck. He was searching for a woman, the last of her kind. He’d been hunting her for longer than he could remember, and her death would end a war that had raged for thousands of years.

It was supposed to be the final battle but she was clever and unpredictable, and had eluded him again. Instead of finding her, he found me, and I had made it a whole new war. My name is Gabriel Armstrong, and I am immortal.

A chilling post-apocalyptic thriller, The Eighth Day is a tale of murder and vengeance across two centuries.

MY REVIEW:

This story covers so much ground, from a western to zombies to time portals.  The story-line is quite a feat to follow.  It jumps and skips all over the place.  But each segment is so well written, that you get lost in it, then suddenly you’re back to the present or another form of present time and you have to try to remember again the plot and who all the characters are.

The main plot is Ben and Joshua, two immortals, for whatever reason not explained yet, that are trying to kill each other.  Man, they must be so tired of dying, all the pain and blood.  Joshua is pure evil, while Ben is just trying to stop the dead from rising and saving the human race at the same time.

This is an intriguing story and if a convoluted plot line doesn’t deter you, I would highly recommend this book.  But, if you like a linear story, do not buy.  You won’t like it.   I give it 4 feathers.

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