Once again, I find myself reading a book I don't remember anything about. I guess this must have been on some list or other, and I'm 99% sure that I thought it was a first contact sci-fi story. Spoiler: It is not. It is not really sci-fi at all, it's pretty much cosmic horror. That's not a bad thing, but, past Roybot should really have paid more attention to that fact.
Other reviews have made the comparison to World War Z, which is totally fair. Told in a series of short stories that eventually coalesce as a number of characters from earlier stories end up in the same place dealing with the same danger, it would be hard *not* to make the WWZ comparison.
That said, I liked WWZ, and the formula mostly works here, as well. Not perfectly; there are a few segments that feel a little slow or where there are "twists" that are pretty obvious well before they actually come up, but if you want a creepy horror story that comes from a weird direction that I, at least, haven't seen before, this is a solid selection.
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