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Liked It Rated 5 stars “(c) 2006 Gracie C. McKeever At a first glance, it would be easy for a reader to dismiss 8 DAYS, by Barri L. Bumgarner, as just another end-of-the-world, Armageddon or THE STAND rip-off. However, a reader would be shortchanging herself to do so; this book has so much more going...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “(c) 2006 Gracie C. McKeever
  
  
  
  At a first glance, it would be easy for a reader to dismiss 8 DAYS, by Barri L. Bumgarner, as just another end-of-the-world, Armageddon or THE STAND rip-off. However, a reader would be shortchanging herself to do so; this book has so much more going for it than a similar plot as Stephen King’s famous tome.
  
  
  
  First and foremost are the characters, a collection of every day normal people like you and me, caught in a horrendous situation not of their creation but making the best of it and existing against monumental odds.
  
  
  
  From the young husband and survivor Jake, in North Carolina who loses his wife to a release of the deadly chemical X-86, to DJ’s Dusty and Melanie helping their listeners make it to safe zones throughout the country after an attack of X-86, to eight-year-old Jessie Bayker, the young girl who bikes hundreds of miles home after witnessing the death of her father in a hotel room to the lethal chemical, the reader cannot look away from the carnage on the pages and the survivors left behind to clean up after the fallout of a deadly chemical attack.
  
  
  
  Even the four young scientists, the “villains” of the book, have enthralling stories to tell, that almost makes the reader sympathetic to their reasons for releasing their creation—X-86—on an unsuspecting world.
  
  
  
  Ms. Bumgarner has penned a remarkable story of courage and hope rising from the ashes of despair and hatred. This is an excellent book with enough action, suspense and thrills to keep the reader on the edge of her seat, and an engrossing plot and complex, engaging characters that will have the reader turning pages until the very end.
  
  
  
  8 DAYS is a frighteningly realistic and gripping sci-fi story, I highly recommend!
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  Gracie wrote this review Sunday, September 14 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 5 stars

  “Hey, I wrote it, how can I rate it lower?? Prequel is due out soon!”

  BarriBum wrote this review Monday, September 3 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No