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Heroes of the Apocalypse: The Complete Collection
The End Is Here.For veteran firefighter Robert, danger is just another part of the job. But when a deadly plague turns ordinary people into undead monsters, he'll need all his experience, training, and courage to survive.
As the world descends into chaos, Robert and his fellow firefighters find themselves isolated and surrounded by the zombie scourge. Despite the odds, they are determined to save their loved ones. Can they make it in time, or will they succumb to the undead hordes?
Heroes of the Apocalypse is a thrilling post-apocalyptic series about the courageous men and women who pledged their lives to the service and protection of others. This set contains the entire series, from Books 1 to 7, spanning over 1,300 pages of non-stop adventure.
Grab your copy now!
As the world descends into chaos, Robert and his fellow firefighters find themselves isolated and surrounded by the zombie scourge. Despite the odds, they are determined to save their loved ones. Can they make it in time, or will they succumb to the undead hordes?
Heroes of the Apocalypse is a thrilling post-apocalyptic series about the courageous men and women who pledged their lives to the service and protection of others. This set contains the entire series, from Books 1 to 7, spanning over 1,300 pages of non-stop adventure.
Grab your copy now!
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Published January 20, 2025
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Baileigh Higgins
107 books438 followersSouth African writer and coffee addict, Baileigh Higgins, lives in the Free State with hubby and best friend Brendan and loves nothing more than lazing on the couch with pizza and a bad horror movie. Her unhealthy obsession with the end of the world has led to numerous books on the subject and a secret bunker only she knows the location of.
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February 28, 2025
Higgins portrays a zombie apocalypse from the perspective of emergency service workers, creating a tale where training and common decency are powerful tools but not magic solutions.
Note: while the author is blessed with a spiffing surname we are unrelated.
Veteran firefighters, police officers, and other emergency services personnel are used to facing a range of fast-changing dangerous situations. However, when zombies attack Robert’s fire station, that experience is stretched to the limit. With much of the population turned to ravening monsters, one night of desperately surviving becomes a quest to find loved ones and a place of permanent sanctuary.
This book (as the title avers) contains the seven volumes of Higgins’ Heroes of the Apocalypse series.
While many zombie apocalypse stories—plausibly enough—have a significant minority of police officers, paramedics, and other such people among the survivors, Higgins centres her series around the emergency services. The most obvious effect of this is to create an underlying sense of brotherhood that gives the survivors more reason to act together than the external presence of zombies that persists even in later volumes when the protagonists are drawn from a broader range of lives and locations. However, the same idea of humans risking themselves for each other pervades every aspect, creating a post-apocalyptic world that is much more pro-social than the usual swift collapse into robbery and selfishness. Thus, while the series is not without the threat of criminal gangs, it does offer a more hopeful view of humanity than some.
This seemingly more advantageous situation than the usual zombie apocalypse narrative does not make events any less tense. Training, experience, and access to specialist equipment only go so far against a threat that one hasn’t encountered before; indeed experience of having handled dangerous situations before combined with a drive to help others can lead to a slight recklessness. In parallel with this, the loss of modern civilised society strips away the pervasive support systems, from nights at home with a loving family to simply grabbing a coffee while on a break, that mitigate the stress of facing danger.
Higgins is also not afraid to have leading characters suffer permanent injury or even death; thus, the danger to characters still feels real even if they have survived through many volumes.
As the series progresses, both granting the survivors more understanding of their new environment and adding new survivors to the group, the advantage of shared decency is more strongly countered by the complexities of there not always being a single right answer to moral or practical questions. Thus, the series features more interpersonal conflict than the early protagonists vs zombie and protagonists vs environment focus. In addition to adding a sense of realism, this avoids the volumes becoming stale zombie-of-the-week stories.
When human indecency does appear, Higgins does not shy from the cruelty that can be in the human heart, but it has a similar feeling of being real human response, rather than for the sake of having villains for the readers to hate or for the spectacle of leather-clad gangs.
Higgins’ prose style leans more toward clarity and completeness than sparseness; an immediately obvious example is her inclusion of “over” at the end of every segment of radio dialogue rather than leaving it to the reader to assume the characters are following good practice. Depending on a reader’s “reading ear” this might either create a formality that slightly distances them from the emotions of a scene or add a sense of observation and process that enhances the idea many characters are emergency service professionals rather than ordinary people.
The combat and other harms to life and limb are neither gratuitously visceral nor overly sanitised; thus, while each reader’s preferences for trauma and gore might be different, fans of zombie fiction are likely to find the description a good balance between portraying the brutal threat of fighting ravening packs of undead in tight corridors and avoiding shocking details for the sake of it.
Higgins closes the series with the remaining characters at a point of longer-term safety but without the zombies purged or society restored. This strikes a note of hope that fits the focus on the better side of humanity without losing the equal focus on realism.
Especially in earlier volumes, most of the protagonists enter the series as the survivors of a single fire station, police station, or such. Higgins, rightly, makes this a strong common part of their personalities; however, neither allows it to become the defining feature nor falls into the repetition of each group having “the grizzled father figure”, “the reckless youngster”, “the funny one”, &c. As their old lives fall behind them and the events of the books batter them, their starting roles and goals change but remain consistent with their underlying personalities.
Overall, I enjoyed this series. I recommend this collection to readers seeking a zombie apocalypse story that assumes most humans are more good than not.
I received a free copy from the author with a request for a fair review.
Note: while the author is blessed with a spiffing surname we are unrelated.
Veteran firefighters, police officers, and other emergency services personnel are used to facing a range of fast-changing dangerous situations. However, when zombies attack Robert’s fire station, that experience is stretched to the limit. With much of the population turned to ravening monsters, one night of desperately surviving becomes a quest to find loved ones and a place of permanent sanctuary.
This book (as the title avers) contains the seven volumes of Higgins’ Heroes of the Apocalypse series.
While many zombie apocalypse stories—plausibly enough—have a significant minority of police officers, paramedics, and other such people among the survivors, Higgins centres her series around the emergency services. The most obvious effect of this is to create an underlying sense of brotherhood that gives the survivors more reason to act together than the external presence of zombies that persists even in later volumes when the protagonists are drawn from a broader range of lives and locations. However, the same idea of humans risking themselves for each other pervades every aspect, creating a post-apocalyptic world that is much more pro-social than the usual swift collapse into robbery and selfishness. Thus, while the series is not without the threat of criminal gangs, it does offer a more hopeful view of humanity than some.
This seemingly more advantageous situation than the usual zombie apocalypse narrative does not make events any less tense. Training, experience, and access to specialist equipment only go so far against a threat that one hasn’t encountered before; indeed experience of having handled dangerous situations before combined with a drive to help others can lead to a slight recklessness. In parallel with this, the loss of modern civilised society strips away the pervasive support systems, from nights at home with a loving family to simply grabbing a coffee while on a break, that mitigate the stress of facing danger.
Higgins is also not afraid to have leading characters suffer permanent injury or even death; thus, the danger to characters still feels real even if they have survived through many volumes.
As the series progresses, both granting the survivors more understanding of their new environment and adding new survivors to the group, the advantage of shared decency is more strongly countered by the complexities of there not always being a single right answer to moral or practical questions. Thus, the series features more interpersonal conflict than the early protagonists vs zombie and protagonists vs environment focus. In addition to adding a sense of realism, this avoids the volumes becoming stale zombie-of-the-week stories.
When human indecency does appear, Higgins does not shy from the cruelty that can be in the human heart, but it has a similar feeling of being real human response, rather than for the sake of having villains for the readers to hate or for the spectacle of leather-clad gangs.
Higgins’ prose style leans more toward clarity and completeness than sparseness; an immediately obvious example is her inclusion of “over” at the end of every segment of radio dialogue rather than leaving it to the reader to assume the characters are following good practice. Depending on a reader’s “reading ear” this might either create a formality that slightly distances them from the emotions of a scene or add a sense of observation and process that enhances the idea many characters are emergency service professionals rather than ordinary people.
The combat and other harms to life and limb are neither gratuitously visceral nor overly sanitised; thus, while each reader’s preferences for trauma and gore might be different, fans of zombie fiction are likely to find the description a good balance between portraying the brutal threat of fighting ravening packs of undead in tight corridors and avoiding shocking details for the sake of it.
Higgins closes the series with the remaining characters at a point of longer-term safety but without the zombies purged or society restored. This strikes a note of hope that fits the focus on the better side of humanity without losing the equal focus on realism.
Especially in earlier volumes, most of the protagonists enter the series as the survivors of a single fire station, police station, or such. Higgins, rightly, makes this a strong common part of their personalities; however, neither allows it to become the defining feature nor falls into the repetition of each group having “the grizzled father figure”, “the reckless youngster”, “the funny one”, &c. As their old lives fall behind them and the events of the books batter them, their starting roles and goals change but remain consistent with their underlying personalities.
Overall, I enjoyed this series. I recommend this collection to readers seeking a zombie apocalypse story that assumes most humans are more good than not.
I received a free copy from the author with a request for a fair review.
May 30, 2025
For the firefighters of Burlington their lives changed forever when they responded to a fire and a zombie apocalypse broke out. They lost some of their comrades and headed back to the fire station. Later they are joined by 3 police officers and a group from the school they rescued when a fire broke out. After they lose their station and adjoining buildings they are taken in by a group at the hospital and when that falls they head to the island and rescue farmers that came under attack by a horde, this all happened while fighting zombies for their survival. So many innocent lives and friends were lost along the way but friendship and love blossomed. I loved how the author filled us in on certain characters all the way through the book. I highly recommend this whole series if you're a fan of the zombie genre.
October 17, 2025
not very good
All over the place. The zombies had more personality than the characters. I found this to be a very tedious read. I persevered and finished the entire series, hoping that it would pick up…it did not. Best part was “The End”. Gave 2 stars because there were not many grammatical errors although most characters spoke like they were from the 1800’s.
All over the place. The zombies had more personality than the characters. I found this to be a very tedious read. I persevered and finished the entire series, hoping that it would pick up…it did not. Best part was “The End”. Gave 2 stars because there were not many grammatical errors although most characters spoke like they were from the 1800’s.
March 11, 2025
Awesome!
Yes, highly recommend. Loved the characters. Hated a few . Lol
Storyline was on point. Characters, so fleshed out, I moved in with them. It was so good? I read slower, all this last week, so it wouldn't end.
Yes, highly recommend. Loved the characters. Hated a few . Lol
Storyline was on point. Characters, so fleshed out, I moved in with them. It was so good? I read slower, all this last week, so it wouldn't end.
November 21, 2025
Love It!
I love this series. It keeps your attention and you don't want to put it down. Excellent writing that goes between all the main characters and keeps you up to date on what they are all doing to escape the apocalypse and remake their lives. A must read for zombie fans!😳
I love this series. It keeps your attention and you don't want to put it down. Excellent writing that goes between all the main characters and keeps you up to date on what they are all doing to escape the apocalypse and remake their lives. A must read for zombie fans!😳
June 17, 2025
Zombie apocalypse done right
Well thought out series,excellent character development with a fast moving plot and enough suspense and action to keep you interested.
Well thought out series,excellent character development with a fast moving plot and enough suspense and action to keep you interested.
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September 8, 2025Such a good series
Excellent series loved every word! Really good for young readers! Will definitely recommend this book for everyone! Can't wait for the next!
Excellent series loved every word! Really good for young readers! Will definitely recommend this book for everyone! Can't wait for the next!
December 30, 2025
Awesome
I really enjoyed this book. Loved the characters, I loved that it was Clean. I was hooked from the first page.
I really enjoyed this book. Loved the characters, I loved that it was Clean. I was hooked from the first page.
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