Contents

That Ghoul Ava by TW Brown
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
The Colony: Genesis by Michaelbrent Collings
Chronicler of the Undead by Mainak Dhar
Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman
Chasing Spirits by Glynn James
The Home by Scott Nicholson
Preta’s Realm: The Haunting (The Hidden Evil Trilogy, #1) by J. Thorn

In under 10 minutes, 99.9% of the world’s population will be dead… or changed. Conversion is instant. Headshots just make them angry. And they’re getting smarter. If you like bugs, this book will be just up your alley.

Ken Strickland is a high school teacher. His class erupts in panic as bugs cover all the windows and they can see in the distance airplanes crashing down. Kids are having seizures. Blood is spurting everywhere.

It took a moment for Ken to realize what was happening.  Like his brain was operating on a slightly different time stream, something a few seconds delayed from the rest of the world.  He knew he should be reeling from what had just happened, knew he must be in shock. 

The students were killing each other.

Shirley DeMarco, a girl who never caused any trouble, who sat at the back of the class and who Ken had to coax into participation, was straddling another student.  Ken couldn’t tell who the other student was because Shirley was gnawing the other student’s face with her teeth, chewing and smacking like she was tearing into a filet done extremely rare.  

I was thinking to myself YES. Another zombie book. Maybe like World War Z. Or will it be like The War of the Worlds * H.G. Wells?

The writing is great, the pace is amazing. I was devouring page after page.

It seemed like every bad thing that had ever happened in a universe not famous for mercy was packed into that scream.

Ken has made it through the first moments. But his family is still out there. As he struggles to first leave his teaching place by navigating blood drenched hallways and smelly teen-zombies, he makes observations which I kind of found humourous:

And worst of all was the smell.  The smell of any indoor high school was a peculiar beast, a confluence of b.o. and aftershave applied by incompetent hands; of perfume put on in amounts that would embarrass a medieval French prostitute, mixed with the overriding smell of hormones on the brink of breaking free. 

Can he survive? Can he find them? Or will he become one more of the creatures that now rule our world? They’re a hive mind.

 It was like the mass was a single amorphous organism, squeezing every possible cell it could into the area in search of food.

Nail biting! I haven’t read a book this amazing in a very long while. He’s not a one-man-band. He has Dorcas, a woman who saved him from the school explosion because it was the right thing to do. They find more survivors as they escape a mountain of zombies near a homeless shelter and they see some somber news – all stations except cartoon stations had zombies in them. The emergency alert system only let the nation know that there is no government left and everyone is left to fend for themselves.

It had only been three hours.  Three hours, and according to the faceless person on the television, almost everyone on the planet was either dead or converted to one of the things, one of the zombies.

I finished The Colony: Genesis and couldn’t purchase and read the second book fast enough. If you like a can’t-breathe-can’t-stop-cross-your=legs-so-you-don’t-pee-yourself-good-book,then read this book now! Michaelbrent Collings is right up there with Mr. King!!!

The only complaint I have about it was that it ended with a cliff-hanger! I loved it! Will he find his wife on the 9th floor? Are they zombies now? Who are his new mates? Will any of them make it out alive?