There are very few books that I read in just over a day. I have a day job, 4 kids, an Ebay bookstore, and I write. I picked this one up on a promotional post so it was free, and after reading a couple of chapters, I was hooked. This is a busy book that has a big story to tell, but you won't notice that until the end.
I was not familiar with Bray or Kivak's work prior to reading this, so I have no idea who wrote what in this book. To be honest, they are both competent writers who can move a story and bounce it back and forth to each other and I couldn't tell that two authors worked on this. It is seamless and so tightly woven that you never get taken out of the story and will keep turning pages as each chapter gets darker and crazier.
Morgan Brewster can feel what the things in the sinkhole outside his home really are. He senses them and knows what it is. When he crosses paths with a man destroyed by cancer, a man who now has a reason to live even though his body tells him he's done, and the two form a bond as they try to stop the evil that is trying to escape from the sinkhole.
Lots of fucked up shit happens in this book as the people start acting strange, and spiders, political people acting like assholes, spiders, humans doing horrible things to each other, things they would have never done before that sinkhole opened, and spiders. One of my favorite scenes is when Meredith and her neighbor are having a discussion about Morgan, and Meredith finds herself defending her life as her neighbors anger escalades into murderous rage. Meredith is shocked by the lengths she must go in order to protect herself, and her reactions are more than justified.
This is a fantastic ride into a horrible apocalyptic vision that these two authors paint with their words. The landscape is full of evil and depravity, we all know it... Be glad you don't have a sinkhole outside of your home... things can always be worse.
Original, gripping, shocking, and well written. I had fun reading this story and look forward to what they come up with for the sequel. I will be checking out more work from both authors, we all should be.
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Michael Bray
Albert Kivak
-Cory Cline
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