• Shattered Hourglass

  • Day by Day Armageddon, Book 3
  • By: J. L. Bourne
  • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
  • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (2,412 ratings)

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Shattered Hourglass

By: J. L. Bourne
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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Publisher's summary

In a desperate bid to take back the continental United States - where hordes of undead now dominate the ravaged human population - a Navy commander leads a global mission to the heart of the pandemic. Task Force Hourglass is humanity’s final hope, and his team’s agonizing decisions could mean living one day more - or surrendering to the eternal hell that exists between life and death.

Shattered Hourglasss is the terrifying new novel in the acclaimed zombie apocalypse series.

©2012 J.L. Bourne (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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A new take on "Day by Day"

If you could sum up Shattered Hourglass in three words, what would they be?

Good but different

What about Jay Snyder’s performance did you like?

I couldn't tell whether this was the same narrator from the previous 2 books, his voice sounded way off from previous work.

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I LOVED the first two books in the series, I enjoyed them more for the "Journal" approach the author used to tell his story. The third book, though very good to read, was told in more of "Play" format, where the narrator uses to different voices for the different characters. I did love the book and the narrator but this book felt as if if was written by a different author and read by jay snyder's little brother. Good book, great series, just not what I was expecting or hoping for. The author had a great recipe for a novel and jus went another route on this one

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Couldn't stop listening!

Where does Shattered Hourglass rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The book had me hooked. Had a hard time turning it off!

Any additional comments?

There must be more books in this series!

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Great addition to the series

What made the experience of listening to Shattered Hourglass the most enjoyable?

I loved the first book in this series. I had to read the rest. Although the story slows down a bit, it keeps you interested nonetheless as the plot thickens and the players are developed. I am interested to see where things go from here.

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What Happened?!?

What happened ?!

The first half of this book was almost BORING . With all those new characters in play and nobody gives a crap about them (at least, I didn't).

I did not expect (at all) the cartoonish villain , the only thing missing there was the big cat !
And....that ending, so rushed and almost alien to the trilogy...

I expected better

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Good, but not as good as the first two

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As a fellow author, I hate being critical of others. However, the one thing that bugged me in this story was the step AWAY from the journal style. Adding the third person view to a series that didn't have it kind of threw me off, especially since I had no idea who those people were for the most part.

That being said, it was a great ending to the series (if it was the ending).

J.D. Demers

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Great set of Books!!

I could not get enough of these book. Had a awesome adventure with Kil Roy.

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Dog Fight

hey guys are you ready to party with the book of a new one of those cheap one that snapped together with the last few days of mankind.

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great book

the tone of the entire series took a twist from what I was expecting at the beginning of this book 3 and it all comes around again in the end which is awesome

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I just wish...

Ok, loved the first two books. This one departs from the first person, journal writing style of storytelling. I wish it had kept with it, though I guess it would be hard to stay with that with various fronts developing that you wanted to show. I did really enjoy the story with the folks up north, that was a wonderful plot line.

As far as the story as a whole, it was predictable. Some of the dialogue felt forced and repetitive. It was good, however, to see J.L.'s ability to write different POVs with a different voice. Prior to this outing, you knew he could do Kill's voice from a first person standpoint. But what about other characters from a 3rd person POV? He showed he has the chops to pull it off overall.

The short story, Grey Fox, was a good edition to this world, but I'm hoping for another DBDA entry that is closer to the timeline of these books. It is something that should be continued.

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Great

a great continuation I'm looking forward to book 4 as always the narrator was great

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