Sasha is a young woman newly on her own with her own apartment barely unpacked. Nora is a young girl of maybe eight or nine who has seen her mother turn into a cannibalistic monster. Sabrina rescues her in the parking lot of her apartment at the beginning of her world unraveling. Derek is a young call center worker visiting his Aunt Cheryl in Florida. His parents are on a cruise and he is just trying to remember how to sleep. His dog riley picks up on the strange vibes as a senior citizen runs Derek back into Aunt Cheryl’s house trying for a snack on Derek. Considering this to be strange he then watches in shock as his dog defends him from his Aunt Cheryl.
This is pretty much how this book goes as straggling survivors unite across the Southeast and find out what really happened. The storyline is pretty good and flowed well. Romantic angst was minimized and realistic adult interactions in an insane environment are somehow created here. Good job.
The editing is where this work falls down somewhat. I suggest going back through the script searching for “and” and (haha) “that”. Run-on sentences in short. There were also several instances of pronoun confusion. Summation for me, very good plot but the work needs polish. Three out of five Science Fiction nerd-gasm points hereby awarded.
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