What a refreshing read!
A post apocalyptic novel without zombies? Who woulda thunk it?
OK, I lied...there is type of zombie...but not what you would expect.
The elephant in the room?....The apocalypse is caused by a boy band....I'm getting this out of the way first...I thought it was going to be a comedy, based on that one line alone. it is anything but a comedy....ok, glad we got that out of the way!
This book is a story of a reporter trying to find out why the apocalypse occured, in an effort to prevent it happening again.
It is told in the first person and augmented by snippets of Fan Forum chat rooms, pop music magazines, album and concert reviews, personal journals and..... Reddit posts...yup...Reddit survives The Apocalypse....who said cockroaches at the back?!?
You might be put off by my description, but trust me, it is incredibly engaging, cohesive and coherent. The chat room characters are all very memorable and believable, the dialogue is easy to follow, the personal journals are quite harrowing and it is all happening with the background of terror, when just leaving a radio on, or walking into a fast food restaurant and hearing a verse of a song could propel you to your death.
This is the second novel I have read by this author, while both were post apocalyptic in genre, their approach to the idea of a world of survivors dealing with the aftermath is completely different!
Great characters, great stories and enough of a difference to make this a worthy addition to any post apocalypse library!
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Thriller of the Year!
I was very nervous when I read the synopsis of the book. I was thinking it involved zombies and I'm just not a fan, not sure why, but I've been trying to read books that are outside my comfort zone and why not try something that falls under thriller/horror. The draw was that this whole 'disease' was caused by a boyband, Whoa-Town (I feel the name could have been a little more original 🤣). This concept was definitely new to me. The book was a bit longer than I would have expected but the amount of detail was breathtaking! I was never left wanting for more on anything specific. The characters were wonderfully written. Motives for their actions were relatively the same but that was to be expected. The science behind the 'how' was neat and totally makes sense. The loss of a star was the reasoning for WHY the boyband caused this. 'Just because they could'. No other reason. Just because. I felt that was rather boring and a bit of a let down. Despite that though, I REALLY enjoyed this book. There is so much in this book that is realistic in how society would handle something like this, definitely watching how people are acting with the current pandemic. I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a good thriller.
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I was very nervous when I read the synopsis of the book. I was thinking it involved zombies and I'm just not a fan, not sure why, but I've been trying to read books that are outside my comfort zone and why not try something that falls under thriller/horror. The draw was that this whole 'disease' was caused by a boyband, Whoa-Town (I feel the name could have been a little more original 🤣). This concept was definitely new to me. The book was a bit longer than I would have expected but the amount of detail was breathtaking! I was never left wanting for more on anything specific.
The characters were wonderfully written. Motives for their actions were relatively the same but that was to be expected. The science behind the 'how' was neat and totally makes sense. The loss of a star was the reasoning for WHY the boyband caused this. 'Just because they could'. No other reason. Just because. I felt that was rather boring and a bit of a let down.
Despite that though, I REALLY enjoyed this book. There is so much in this book that is realistic in how society would handle something like this, definitely watching how people are acting with the current pandemic. I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a good thriller.
The characters were wonderfully written. Motives for their actions were relatively the same but that was to be expected. The science behind the 'how' was neat and totally makes sense. The loss of a star was the reasoning for WHY the boyband caused this. 'Just because they could'. No other reason. Just because. I felt that was rather boring and a bit of a let down.
Despite that though, I REALLY enjoyed this book. There is so much in this book that is realistic in how society would handle something like this, definitely watching how people are acting with the current pandemic. I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a good thriller.
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Enjoyable book, interesting format
Reviewed in Canada on June 10, 2020Rose
we don’t actually need music to become zombies
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2020
