Here are the upcoming book reviews for November/December.
Shamblers:The Zombie Apocalypse by Andrew Cormier
Synopsis Straight From Amazon:
Betrayed by his best friend and left to die at the hands of zombies, Nick Steiner has a vendetta to settle: if he can stay alive.
Being shot by Marcus Gray has given Nick sufficient reason to want revenge; for that alone Marcus deserves to die. Yet Marcus didn’t just shoot Nick: he stole Nick’s woman as well.
Nick has vowed to kill everyone and everything in his way until he gets his girl back and makes Marcus pay.
NOTE: This novel contains depictions of extreme violence, adult language, sexual references and situations, and other miscellaneous terms that may be racial and ethnically derogatory. If you are easily offended it is advised you think twice before purchasing it. The author wants to make it known that any offensive language and situations that are contained within have been put there solely in the interest of story-telling.
EXCERPT:
“It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever.
Ebola infection starts with a fierce head and backache. As the virus amplifies within a host, it tries to turn every living cell into a duplicate of itself. It turns a person’s skin yellow and causes red-splotches to appear throughout the skin as the victim bleeds internally. It also turns their eyes red. As it spreads, it dissolves the muscles that control facial movements: it changes a person into an expressionless zombie. It also wipes upper brain functions, which destroys an individual’s personality and leaves that person a shell of who they once were.
Ebola then turns the insides of its host into jelly: you begin to vomit black junk which is basically your dissolved liver and internal organs. The vomiting is uncontrollable and goes on and on. Your stomach fills with blood. Blood clots multiply and begin to surge through your body. You may have a heart attack or stroke. You then bleed out from every orifice. In its final stages, you shit out your intestinal linings in a rush of a**-blood.
How do I know so much about Ebola? It was on the news everywhere for weeks when scientists first believed it was the agent responsible for the zombie epidemic. At first, many people infected with the zombie virus experienced similar symptoms to Ebola: they suffered from high fever and head/backaches. Their skin changed to yellow or pasty white. They developed discolored patches of skin. They vomited uncontrollably for hours. They bled from their eyes, nose, mouth, or a combination of them.
Once all that was over with, they died as they curled over in agony, clutching blood-filled stomachs. Unlike Ebola, they came back and spread the disease through biting others. It would likely never be proven if the zombie virus had spawned from Ebola. The men and women who’d bothered with that type of thing were mostly the really smart and scientific folk. As far as I knew, they were now all dead. Maybe they weren’t as smart as they’d thought? Or maybe scientists lacked common sense but were good book readers. Either way, they hadn’t found a cure.”
Synopsis Straight From Amazon:
The Sister is a fast-paced epic story. Suspenseful, and thrilling, it is a mystery that unravels over time, following the lives of a group of seemingly unconnected people, as they struggle to bring an unusually talented serial killer to justice.
CORNWALL, ENGLAND. In the summer of love, 1967, two children witness a murder. One, a seven-year old boy, views it from fifty yards – the other, a young Irish girl, from miles away…
LONDON, 2006. With retirement looming, DCI John F Kennedy reopens the only unresolved case in his career, the disappearance of a young nurse, Kathy, twenty-three years earlier. The broadcast appeal for information on the missing teenage runaway, Eilise; is followed by a cold-case reconstruction of Kathy’s last known movements. A new witness comes forward, and Kennedy – now set on the trail of a serial killer – unwittingly sparks a sequence of events that lead back to himself, threatening his own, very private existence.
As the investigation unfolds, it becomes apparent that the murderer is no ordinary adversary. Resourceful and cunning, he has been operating undetected for over forty years, and it seems that only the original witnesses from 1967 can stop him.
But they have yet to meet…
The Sister is much more than just an ordinary thriller. It is the story of a lifetime…The book is complete, but left open to a series of spin-off, self-contained episodes involving a selection of characters from the original story.The first of which, The Life & Times of William Boule, is due for release in late July 2014.
Desprite Measures by Deborah Jay
Synopsis taken straight from Amazon:
On the surface she’s a cute and feisty blonde, a slender pocket rocket fitness coach. But Cassiopeia Lake has a secret; she’s really a force of nature – an elemental.
Water sprite, Cassie, has lived undisturbed in her native Scottish loch for eons. Now, one encounter too many with modern plumbing has driven her to live in human guise along with her selkie boyfriend, Euan. It’s all going fine – until a nerdy magician captures Cassie to be an unwilling component in his crazy dangerous experiment.
Escape is only Cassie’s first challenge.
She’s smitten by her fellow prisoner, the scorching hot fire elemental, Gloria. But how do you love someone you can never touch?
And what do you do when your boyfriend starts to hero-worship your persecutor? Not to mention that tricky situation of being the prize in a power contest between two rival covens of witches.
So when Gloria’s temper erupts and she sets out to murder the magician, can Cassie keep her loved ones safe from the cross-fire, or will she be sucked into the maelstrom of deadly desires and sink without trace?
