Whilst it's true that the zombie apocalypse would take around 14 seconds to spread right around the globe through the time-honoured tradition of being bitten, the way the end of days comes to pass in this story is quite something else.

It's hard to know where to start: the characters were all juvenile and pointless. I appreciate the author is possibly trying to comment on our over-reliance of technology in the modern age, but really, everyone under the age of 30 was incessantly childish and apparently useless. I'm actually glad to hear that, because if the apocalyse does come beep me I hope the millenials are the ones who go first.

Secondly, their interactions and speech were appalling. I am not one to shy away from swearing-I am Norther after all-but the amount in this was very over-the-top. If you are trying for realism, trying having some of the characters need a shit at some point.

Thirdly (and lastly because I can't be bothered writing any more about this poor attempt at storytelling), fair enough the power goes out in the cities when the end of days comes because the people in charge of them are gone, but phone signals aren't controlled by humans and wouldn't turn off all of a sudden. So the characters could just phone each other, or search twitter for what's happening like they usually do. But the author-instead of trying to come up with an ingenious way of why phones stop working magically, just ignores it instead. And continues to explain almost nothing through bad description and unimaginative writing.