For all the talk of "suicide mission," it's pretty anti-climatic. Kil arrives in China for what we expect is the epic final battle.and there's no epic final battle. It comes too soon and leaves you wanting for more. My main beef with this book - the ending.
Think one of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare games with zombies as the baddies instead of terrorists and you've got a pretty good idea on what to expect-it's a lot of fun. They're HALOing or riding Zodiacs into zombie territory on covert, high priority missions. The spec ops dudes are accordingly well equipped with NODS (night observation devices/night vision goggles), suppressed M4, grenades, tomahawks and overhead drone support. The two special forces teams introduce a new level of awesomeness not possible with a single character surviving by the skin of his teeth in the zombie wastes.
Heck, Bourne has some sort of ties to Larue Tactical, one of the top AR manufacturers in the world, and Larue 7.62 rifles get a shout out in the book and put to good use mowing down the undead.
Like the previous two books, Shattered Hourglass continues the mix of zombies with military hardware and gun savvy author that has made the series so much fun. I would personally have preferred sticking more closely to Kil, and sending him on more adventures (he spends 3/4 of the book inside a nuclear sub), but the shift in story telling style wasn't overly jarring. It's not bad, but it lends a different feel to this book over the previous two. We still get the journal perspective of the main character, Kil, but it's mixed in with the perspective of other characters - John, his tech savvy bunker mate, members of two different special ops teams, and others. Shattered Hourglass is a departure from the previous two books, in that it steps back from the first person, journal style that was prevalent in the first two books to a more conventional 3rd person, character-hopping book. So I've been waiting for this book, the apparent wrap up of the trilogy, somewhat impatiently for over a year. The second book, in particular, is one of my favorites - I really dug the combination of first person, journal style narrative, behind enemy lines zombie survival mixed in with high tech military hardware - Predator drones dropping bombs on zombie hordes and what not.
Bourne's Day by Day Armageddon series - here's links to my reviews of the first and second books.
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