Book Review : Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human

Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ah, yes, the title. Apocalypse Now Now is a play on the name of the movie Apocalypse Now and in South Africa, Now Now can mean anything from in 5 minutes to never. If you say that you'll do something now now, it can mean you might do it right then, or never ever.

I really really loved this book because of the intro chapters, where the main character, Baxter is running a porn syndicate in his school and trying to prevent an all out war between the school gangs. But shit really hits the fan once his girlfriend gets kidnapped by a serial killer called the Mountain Man.

It's a wild wild ride with zombies, monsters, shape-shifters, drugs, guns, and what not.

I won't go into more details, but this is the most fun I've had in recent times while reading a book.


Special addition for blog readers: I created a new category on my goodreads shelf for this book only and titled it Awesome Books. Yes, it is that good. From the intro chapters, to the south african mythos and the middle chapters where we get introduced to the world of the Hidden who have been hiding from the human community.

It is all interesting in the way that you don't read this kind of stuff in mainstream fiction where a writer actually goes deep down into the roots of his own culture and brings it to the masses in a format that really makes the reader think, speculate, and enjoy the words on the page.

This book is amazing because the way the author has amalgamated the worlds of Cape Town and the super natural community, no one else could have done it any better. There is humor, laugh out loud moments and scenes in the book that would make you think. As a package, it couldn't have been any better.

And, at the heart of it all, is a teenager with a love story and a load of new responsibilities on his shoulders. This is the kind of books that makes a person want to pick up the pen, dive deep into his own cultural mythology and spin a yarn that will leave the reader begging for more.

Once I was done reading, I was ecstatic for the next book, Kill Baxter and I knew I'd be reading that one in record time.


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