Michael Barnes
A Zombie novel similar in style to Colson Whitehead's 'Zone One' and Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth where as I am more a Mira Grant's Newsflesh zombie reader.
Our protagonist Orpen is a young woman who has grown up in the zombie apocalypse kept safe on an island off Ireland raised by her mother and Maeve. Her mother dies from a bite when Orpen is 12 then years later her other mother Maeve is bitten and she sets off on the mainland. Years into the apocalypse it is a desolate place, ravaged by a frightening and grisly foe, the skrake (Zombies). These demonic creatures infect a human with a poisonous bite, gradually transforming that person into one of their own.
The parallel story of Orpen's up bringing runs alongside chapters with her current situation carrying the slowing turning Maeve searching for a place called Pheonix City. The authors language evocates melancholy longing in a landscape both beautiful and brutal, and in the distinctive voice of Orpen a narrator who is both confident in her abilities and filled with fear and grief.
Orpen's tale continues in Sarah Davis-Goff's 2023 novel 'Silent City' which I shall read as soon as the Glen Waverley Public Library opens it's temporary collection while it is refurbished.
A Zombie novel similar in style to Colson Whitehead's 'Zone One' and Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth where as I am more a Mira Grant's Newsflesh zombie reader.
Our protagonist Orpen is a young woman who has grown up in the zombie apocalypse kept safe on an island off Ireland raised by her mother and Maeve. Her mother dies from a bite when Orpen is 12 then years later her other mother Maeve is bitten and she sets off on the mainland. Years into the apocalypse it is a desolate place, ravaged by a frightening and grisly foe, the skrake (Zombies). These demonic creatures infect a human with a poisonous bite, gradually transforming that person into one of their own.
The parallel story of Orpen's up bringing runs alongside chapters with her current situation carrying the slowing turning Maeve searching for a place called Pheonix City. The authors language evocates melancholy longing in a landscape both beautiful and brutal, and in the distinctive voice of Orpen a narrator who is both confident in her abilities and filled with fear and grief.
Orpen's tale continues in Sarah Davis-Goff's 2023 novel 'Silent City' which I shall read as soon as the Glen Waverley Public Library opens it's temporary collection while it is refurbished.