Paperback: 302 pages Publisher: 47North Publication date: 11 June 2013 ISBN13: 9781477805060 First Line – “Commander Fiona Mulligan had made a habit out of watching the sunrise” Reporter Emily Baxter survived the alien red rain that blanketed and annihilated the human race. But after the downpour, and the lethal contagion it spread, came an even…
Category: apocalyptic
Book Review – Outbreak: The Zombie Apocalypse by Craig Jones
Paperback: 372 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Publication date: Sept 17 2012 ISBN13: 9781479335220 First Line – “The public didn’t take what was going on seriously until the Government cancelled football matches and they stopped filming Eastenders.” With no warning, a Zombie epidemic sweeps across modern Great Britain causing the victims to attack and feed on their…
Book Review – Dawn of the Dead by George Ramero
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Sphere Publication date: May 10 2012 ISBN13: 9780751549157 First Line – “Sleep did not come easily to Francine Parker.” When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. The world is being devastated by zombies. No one knows how far they have spread, or how to…
Book Review – Exit Kingdom by Alden Bell
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Tor Publication date: November 8th 2012 ISBN13: 9780230766747 First Line – “And so the living persist, stubbornly, and the memories, and the crumbling road, and the stories.” In a world where the undead outnumber the living, Moses Todd roams the post-apocalyptic plains of America. His reprobate brother, Abraham – his only…
Review – This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: St Martin’s Griffin Publication date: July 9th 2012 ISBN13: 9780312656744 First Line – “Lily, I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared” It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding…
Book Review – Undead by Kirsty McKay
Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Chicken House Publication date: Sept 1st 2011 ISBN13: 9781906427870 First Line – “I would rather die than face them all again.” It was just another school trip… When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay behind. They hardly know…
Book Review – The Reapers are the angels by Alden Bell
Hardback: 302 pages Publisher: Tor Publication date: September 3rd 2010 ISBN13: 9780230748644 First Line – “God is a Slick God.” God is a slick god. Temple knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined globe…Older than her years and completely alone, Temple is just trying to live…
Book Review – Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Amanda Hocking Publication date: 6 Oct 2010 ISBN13: 9781453860953 First Line – “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and…
Book Review – Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther
Darkness Falling (Forever Twilight – #1) By Peter Crowther Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date(first UK): 6 Oct 2011 ISBN: 978 0 85766 168 5 Synopsis taken from Angry Robot: It was a typical all-American backwater – until the night the monsters came. When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light…
Idlewild – Nick Sagan
From a bold new talent comes a smart, stylish near-future thriller that fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of Minority Report. Set in the day after tomorrow, Idlewild opens as a young man awakes with amnesia: He cannot remember who he is and doesn’t recognize anything around him-all he…