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SUMMARY: In 2012 the Mayas calendar ends with a world changing viral disease that brings the dead back to life.
The BookViral Review: Genre – Zombie Fiction & Horror Fiction
Zombie fiction isn’t new so it’s always nice to come across something a little different and Never-DEAD certainly fits the bill. A zombie thriller with some discerning twists, it’s the debut release from Ann Greyson and she’s packed quite a punch! Immediately immersive, she weaves the requisite elements of the genre into a nail-biting narrative with sisters Hannah and Jenna finding themselves separated as the Never Dead virus threatens to destroy everything they know and love.
Against all odds, Jenna must journey from San Antonio to New Mexico to join Hannah in the safety of the Biogenetics and Disease Control facility. But it’s a journey fraught with peril and this is where Greyson as a writer comes into her own. She’s set out to write a fast-paced character-driven thriller and that’s what she delivers but because Never-DEAD doesn’t have a post-apocalyptic setting she manages to create a purposeful sense of place which many novels in the genre fail to do.
Ultimately the force of any Zombie novel lies largely in how vividly it evokes the fear of things we have to lose and on this level the strength of its main characters are well pitched. The zombie attack set pieces are tense with the ugly reality of real-life and death fights brought to life through Jenna’s many life and death encounters.
An original and entertaining read Never-DEAD proves a strong debut for Greyson and is strongly recommended.
In a beautifully written debut collection of short stories Lauren Wilson gives us a reflective meditation on ordinary people’s expectations and assumptions with stories that are emotionally rich whilst feeling fresh and disturbingly relevant in today’s world.
Full of irony and with a wry, sometimes depreciating flavour, ‘Cauliflowers through the cat flap and other tales from a solitary lockdown’ is a transparent and honest fly on the wall biographical account of one woman’s lockdown experience. Not just any woman. A women who is indeed, as her friends tell her, ‘excellent at putting words together’.
The fact is that few authors really master the art of suspense and those who do are the ones who come to understand its underpinning psychology.
It’s a question that’s courted more than a little controversy over the years, but there’s a significant difference between paying for a book review with no influence over the resulting review and paying for a review that is guaranteed to be overwhelmingly favourable,
George Macdonald, when asked the reason for his chosen genre, replied,
“I write, not for the children, but for the child-like, whether they be five, or fifty, or seventy five”
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