A riveting novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. When it happens, it happens quickly. New England is locked down, a strict curfew the only way to stem the wildfire spread of a rabies-like virus. The hospitals cannot cope with the infected, as the pathogen's ferociously quick incubation period overwhelms the state. The veneer of civilisation is breaking down as people live in fear of everyone around them. Staying inside is the ...
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A riveting novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. When it happens, it happens quickly. New England is locked down, a strict curfew the only way to stem the wildfire spread of a rabies-like virus. The hospitals cannot cope with the infected, as the pathogen's ferociously quick incubation period overwhelms the state. The veneer of civilisation is breaking down as people live in fear of everyone around them. Staying inside is the only way to keep safe. But paediatrician Ramola Sherman can't stay safe, when her friend Natalie calls - her husband is dead, she's eight months pregnant, and she's been bitten. She is thrust into a desperate race to bring Natalie and her unborn child to a hospital, to try and save both their lives. Their once familiar home has becoming a violent and strange place, twisted in to a barely recognisable landscape. What should have been a simple, joyous journey becomes a brutal trial.
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Add this copy of Survivor Song to cart. $7.06, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2021 by William Morrow & Company.
Add this copy of Survivor Song to cart. $13.43, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2021 by William Morrow & Company.
This one didnt frustrate me nearly as much as Tremblay's other works. I really enjoyed the action scenes and definitely felt a lot of tension and suspense for the characters at points. I felt like the dismal feeling overall of everything crashing and burning around our main characters was well captured, and this book is more a sad story than entirely a zombie horror.
That said, Tremblay could have made his injection of personal politics less obtuse. I personally get the frustration with right wing conspiracy theorists, no argument there. However there was a definite, and I felt unnecessary, note of "right wing = dumb, crazy and bad" that stuck out like a sore thumb instead of blending well and subtly into the characters, setting and story.
