Book Review – The Cost of Living by David Moody
The Cost of Living by David Moody
First published, 2014
Well, I have been rubbish at updating you on my reading habits now, haven’t I? Sorry about that. Life and such. It’s been a pretty lousy year. Don’t get me wrong; there were moments of good and the year is not yet done. Getting back on an even keel and looking forward to a smoother 2025, so it strikes me that I should get some reviews jotted down and put out into the world in order to properly draw a line under twelve months of basic mayhem.
Which is all to say: there are going to be a lot of reviews coming at you, thick and fast in the next couple of days. Brace yourselves.
First up, and I loved this novel, The Cost of Living by David Moody. An ordinary man, with a home, a family, a stockpile, and a saviour complex, braces against the coming zombie apocalypse and risks losing everything. Of course, it bears comparison to The Walking Dead, but maybe it feels so different because it’s so British. I’m not sure, but I know I loved it.
‘Just one sick kid.
‘Thing is, if this is as bad as I’m thinking and this is how this infection spreads, then what’s happening is scattershot, isn’t it? One infected person could contaminate a whole street if they’re not stopped and sedated in time.
‘I’m finding gaps in explanations, holes in stories, unexpected spaces where there should be information. And no one else is questioning it.
‘Right now, all this is little more than gossip. No one’s sounding particularly worried, and that’s strange in itself because people are usually happy to panic.’
8% in, Chapter Three, Tuesday, 19 May 10:54am, The Cost of Living by David Moody
Currently, free as a bird on Amazon. Go, devour.
