ODIUM
by Claire C. Riley
I don’t normally read zombie books, but my interest in the genre was
piqued by a short story “Life Ever After” by Claire C. Riley that can be found
in Breakwater Harbor Books Anthology
(FREE on Smashwords and Barnes&Noble).
In "Odium" Nina and other survivors live behind the walls that
protect them from deaders, but life there is far from happy. She decides to
leave together with Emily, a girl who’s been banished from the place. The two
of them are supposed to survive in a world feasting with zombies. As it turns
out, zombies are not the only thing that may put Nina and Emily in danger.
I’m really impressed with Claire C. Riley’s narrative flow. The book is
easy to read, it’s enjoyable, and it’s a must-read for zombie-lovers.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
It's
better to die by the gun than die by the dead.
Nina’s
life was irrevocably changed when humanity’s dead began to rise.
Now, she
lives behind the walls.
The
barricaded cities, erected by the government to protect the remnants of
civilization, have become a brutal dictatorship- causing the inhabitants within
to starve, steal and claw for survival. Life behind the walls has become as
terrifying as roaming the zombie-ridden landscape beyond.
Citizens
trade what they can to gain food, water, and shelter. Nina has only one
currency—her body and she is tired of submitting herself to the greedy hands of
the self-proclaimed leaders.
An
opportunity to escape presents itself in the fate of a young girl named
Emily-Rose. For the price of a stale piece of bread, she is set for banishment
from the city, and most likely a horrific death at the hands of the deaders.
Nina tells herself that it is sympathy and not self-preservation that makes her
follow the young girl out of the walled metropolis, and into the overgrown
world beyond.
Unused to
fighting the deaders, Nina tries to scrounge for her survival and against her
better judgment, begins to care for Emily-Rose. However, when you have a
bread-stealing liability providing your only back up, survival seems even
tougher. Nina is forced to fight for their lives, and with every zombie slain,
she becomes fiercer, faster – a grim reaper with her not-so-sharp butcher’s
knife.
Along the
path to a safe-haven that might not exist, Nina and Emily-Rose meet Mikey who
introduces them to a new life they could not imagine, a life above the ground.
However, this new world brings new dangers, and darker shadows than she knew.
Nina
finds out that the deaders aren’t the only thing to fear beyond the wall.
And that
fear will not be ignored, or Forgotten.
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