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The Dead Saga #2.5
Odium Origins. A Dead Saga Novella. Part Two
When hell claws its way up from the dark depths of the earth, and the dead begin to walk, for most it can only mean one thing—death. But for some, the zombie apocalypse is only the beginning of a dark yet brave new life for them.
For some, the apocalypse offers freedom from their tragic lives. For others it’s a chance to show that looks can be deceiving. And for others, it’s an opportunity ripe for the taking.
The Bimbo, The Book Nerd, The Hero, & The Friends, everyone has their place. What really decides your fate in this new existence, nature, or nurture? Who people become when the world goes to hell is the true decider on someone’s humanity, and will ultimately decide your fate.
Forever changed, these people have to learn to adapt to this dangerous and dark new world before they become one of the living dead themselves.
Odium Origins 2.5 is a 50’000 word novella to accompany the full length novel Odium. The Dead Saga.
For some, the apocalypse offers freedom from their tragic lives. For others it’s a chance to show that looks can be deceiving. And for others, it’s an opportunity ripe for the taking.
The Bimbo, The Book Nerd, The Hero, & The Friends, everyone has their place. What really decides your fate in this new existence, nature, or nurture? Who people become when the world goes to hell is the true decider on someone’s humanity, and will ultimately decide your fate.
Forever changed, these people have to learn to adapt to this dangerous and dark new world before they become one of the living dead themselves.
Odium Origins 2.5 is a 50’000 word novella to accompany the full length novel Odium. The Dead Saga.
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Claire C. Riley
92 books1,198 followersClaire C. Riley is a USA Today and International bestselling author.
She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband, three daughters, and ridiculously naughty rescue beagle.
* Gryffindor * Targaryen * Zombie slayer *
MC ROMANCE:
Devil's Highwaymen Ride or Die Series (3 books)
The Devil's Highwaymen Nomad Series (4 books)
Tame his Beast duet (2 books)
MAFIA ROMANCE:
Deviant Prince #1
Twisted Princess #2
Royal Blood: The Brotherhood
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE/THRILLER
Beautiful Victim (standalone)
Fragments of Delores (standalone)
NA ROMANCE
WRATH #3 in the Elite Seven Series
POST-APOCALYPTIC
Odium The Dead Saga Series 8 books
Odium Origins Series 3 books
Out of the Dark (standalone)
Red Eye The Armageddon Series - co-authored with Eli Constant (3 books)
Thicker than Blood series - co-authored with Madeline Sheehan (3 books)
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
Limerence (The Obsession Series)
Twisted Magic (standalone)
ROMANCE
Shut Up & Kiss Me - Co-authored with Madeline Sheehan
HORROR
Blood Claim (standalone)
FIND ME
She can be stalked at any of the following and always welcomes any questions readers may have.
www.clairecriley.com
https://www.facebook.com/ClaireCRiley...
http://bit.ly/clairecrileyamazon/
https://twitter.com/ClaireCRiley
https://www.google.com/+ClaireCRiley
and redheadapocalypse on Instagram
She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband, three daughters, and ridiculously naughty rescue beagle.
* Gryffindor * Targaryen * Zombie slayer *
MC ROMANCE:
Devil's Highwaymen Ride or Die Series (3 books)
The Devil's Highwaymen Nomad Series (4 books)
Tame his Beast duet (2 books)
MAFIA ROMANCE:
Deviant Prince #1
Twisted Princess #2
Royal Blood: The Brotherhood
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE/THRILLER
Beautiful Victim (standalone)
Fragments of Delores (standalone)
NA ROMANCE
WRATH #3 in the Elite Seven Series
POST-APOCALYPTIC
Odium The Dead Saga Series 8 books
Odium Origins Series 3 books
Out of the Dark (standalone)
Red Eye The Armageddon Series - co-authored with Eli Constant (3 books)
Thicker than Blood series - co-authored with Madeline Sheehan (3 books)
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
Limerence (The Obsession Series)
Twisted Magic (standalone)
ROMANCE
Shut Up & Kiss Me - Co-authored with Madeline Sheehan
HORROR
Blood Claim (standalone)
FIND ME
She can be stalked at any of the following and always welcomes any questions readers may have.
www.clairecriley.com
https://www.facebook.com/ClaireCRiley...
http://bit.ly/clairecrileyamazon/
https://twitter.com/ClaireCRiley
https://www.google.com/+ClaireCRiley
and redheadapocalypse on Instagram
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May 7, 2019
A fun novella filled with clever zombie anthologies. A nice intermission to the Odium series.
October 31, 2014
Be nice, karma might be a blonde!
So, you ready to find out where some more of your favorite people (or not so) have come from? Well, these beginnings were kind of dark, some even before they were faced with the apocalypse. Imagine just hanging around the carnival, then seeing the girl of your dreams, then saving her life, then seeing her die. Or how about the abused wife, who has made excuses for her husband for a little too long. A husband who shows just how little he cares when the chips fall. Gives new meaning to the phrase “I can’t wait until you are a zombie”. And what about Karma, is she really a blonde, and why does everyone underestimate the blonde? All this and more for your reading pleasure. I guess it is enough to hold me over until the next installment of Odium.
So this bundle of fun is served up in usual Claire Riley style. With a little bit of giggle factor, and a lot of things you just did not quite see coming. Oh yeah, and all the blood and gore you can stomach. You get to keep guessing about how everyone gets together, but you can see some of the correlations in this book. I love how you get to see what makes everyone develop into the person they are, and how it happened. Ms. Riley does not just get to think up her backstory to each of her characters, she gets to blow it up and put it on the big screen of your mind for you.
While this is meant to be the origins of some of the characters of Odium Origins II, this can be a stand alone book as you do not need to have read any of the Odium series to understand anything. If this is your first venture in to Claire Riley’s books, I think it will encourage you to read more.
So, you ready to find out where some more of your favorite people (or not so) have come from? Well, these beginnings were kind of dark, some even before they were faced with the apocalypse. Imagine just hanging around the carnival, then seeing the girl of your dreams, then saving her life, then seeing her die. Or how about the abused wife, who has made excuses for her husband for a little too long. A husband who shows just how little he cares when the chips fall. Gives new meaning to the phrase “I can’t wait until you are a zombie”. And what about Karma, is she really a blonde, and why does everyone underestimate the blonde? All this and more for your reading pleasure. I guess it is enough to hold me over until the next installment of Odium.
So this bundle of fun is served up in usual Claire Riley style. With a little bit of giggle factor, and a lot of things you just did not quite see coming. Oh yeah, and all the blood and gore you can stomach. You get to keep guessing about how everyone gets together, but you can see some of the correlations in this book. I love how you get to see what makes everyone develop into the person they are, and how it happened. Ms. Riley does not just get to think up her backstory to each of her characters, she gets to blow it up and put it on the big screen of your mind for you.
While this is meant to be the origins of some of the characters of Odium Origins II, this can be a stand alone book as you do not need to have read any of the Odium series to understand anything. If this is your first venture in to Claire Riley’s books, I think it will encourage you to read more.
November 2, 2014
Wicked-good counterpart to Riley's Odium Series.
One of my pet peeves when reading a full-length novel is lack of backstory. I'm a fan of characters, realistic ticks, traits, the 'ugly' side of a person, the 'attractive' aspects of a person. Riley does a bang-up job of keeping her characters real within Odium 1 & 2 (the full length series books), but what she does within the Origins books is something I find often lacking in a lot of novels, especially in this genre (i.e. horror/zombies/apoc.). She gives us the 'why' behind the characters- what turned them into 'crazies' or 'victims' or 'fighters'.
Don't go into this novella thinking you're going to get some happy-go-lucky drivel that you'd feed your toddler for noontime snack. This is unattractive humanity at its very basest, but within that daily horror is levity, relief, and 'beating the odds'. There are enough good 'feels' to counteract the 'I want to punch that character's face in', but not so many instances of levity that you'll come away smiling with warm happy thoughts. More than likely, if you come away smiling, it'll be because a complete jerk got his just rewards. Now that is worth buying a book for.
All in all, I feel this second installment in Riley's Origins novellas to be right up there with some of her best work. It keeps you reading- I would have finished in a matter of hours had 'real' life not knocked on my proverbial mental door.
One of my pet peeves when reading a full-length novel is lack of backstory. I'm a fan of characters, realistic ticks, traits, the 'ugly' side of a person, the 'attractive' aspects of a person. Riley does a bang-up job of keeping her characters real within Odium 1 & 2 (the full length series books), but what she does within the Origins books is something I find often lacking in a lot of novels, especially in this genre (i.e. horror/zombies/apoc.). She gives us the 'why' behind the characters- what turned them into 'crazies' or 'victims' or 'fighters'.
Don't go into this novella thinking you're going to get some happy-go-lucky drivel that you'd feed your toddler for noontime snack. This is unattractive humanity at its very basest, but within that daily horror is levity, relief, and 'beating the odds'. There are enough good 'feels' to counteract the 'I want to punch that character's face in', but not so many instances of levity that you'll come away smiling with warm happy thoughts. More than likely, if you come away smiling, it'll be because a complete jerk got his just rewards. Now that is worth buying a book for.
All in all, I feel this second installment in Riley's Origins novellas to be right up there with some of her best work. It keeps you reading- I would have finished in a matter of hours had 'real' life not knocked on my proverbial mental door.
October 31, 2014
Once again, Claire C. Riley has blown me away with her ability to make me actually FEEL while reading. It would be different, I suppose, if she were writing in a more dramatic type genre, but no. She writes HORROR! I’m not used to feeling so emotional while reading a Horror book. It’s a surprisingly pleasant feeling to be honest.
In this installment, we learn the back-stories of Matthew, Susan, Max, and Anne and Dean. These characters have each been through Hell and we learn a small portion of who the are in the Dead Saga, though not nearly enough. I can’t help but feel sorry for them each for different reason. I want to hug every single one of them and then cook dinner for them! You can tell they are mostly all good people at heart, so it’s extra hard to read about bad things happening to good people. On thing about Claire’s word choices is that she makes you WANT to get to know them better.
In Odium Origins 2, the intensity is almost overwhelming, but absolutely in a good way. It’s so intense that you can’t help but feel the character’s emotions as they are experiencing the zombie apocalypse. Confusion, panic, fear, sorrow and eventually hope. You can feel the confusion and fear when everything first goes down, and the disbelief when they finally realize it’s a nightmare come true. When they get angry that the world has come to this, you can feel their desire to destroy that which has caused them such pain. Every swing of a bat or machete is felt with such strength and intensity you can see the blood splatter it causes. You can feel when the character’s weapon sinks into a skull. When a character dies, there is such sorrow at losing one of the few who have not yet been turned into zombies; and eventually the hope that someday either they will encounter those who they haven’t been able to locate, or the hope of being able to successfully destroy the “things” that their loved ones have become.
I seriously love this book. I love the characters as well as the feeling that Claire puts into them. She really knows how to bring them to life in ways I have never encountered before. She is very obviously growing as an author. While her first few books were also really good, you can see the progression in her talent as she releases more and more stories for us to devour like a zombie with a plate full of brains.
I would recommend this book to everyone. If they were to tell me they haven’t yet read The Dead Saga or the Obsession series, I would insist they pick them both up right away. The Dead Saga books is still one of the only zombie series that I think has enough going on to set it apart from the run of the mill survivor stories we get in most zombie apocalypse books. Claire’s books are anything but ordinary, but I guess you will just have to find out how when you read the stories yourself!
In this installment, we learn the back-stories of Matthew, Susan, Max, and Anne and Dean. These characters have each been through Hell and we learn a small portion of who the are in the Dead Saga, though not nearly enough. I can’t help but feel sorry for them each for different reason. I want to hug every single one of them and then cook dinner for them! You can tell they are mostly all good people at heart, so it’s extra hard to read about bad things happening to good people. On thing about Claire’s word choices is that she makes you WANT to get to know them better.
In Odium Origins 2, the intensity is almost overwhelming, but absolutely in a good way. It’s so intense that you can’t help but feel the character’s emotions as they are experiencing the zombie apocalypse. Confusion, panic, fear, sorrow and eventually hope. You can feel the confusion and fear when everything first goes down, and the disbelief when they finally realize it’s a nightmare come true. When they get angry that the world has come to this, you can feel their desire to destroy that which has caused them such pain. Every swing of a bat or machete is felt with such strength and intensity you can see the blood splatter it causes. You can feel when the character’s weapon sinks into a skull. When a character dies, there is such sorrow at losing one of the few who have not yet been turned into zombies; and eventually the hope that someday either they will encounter those who they haven’t been able to locate, or the hope of being able to successfully destroy the “things” that their loved ones have become.
I seriously love this book. I love the characters as well as the feeling that Claire puts into them. She really knows how to bring them to life in ways I have never encountered before. She is very obviously growing as an author. While her first few books were also really good, you can see the progression in her talent as she releases more and more stories for us to devour like a zombie with a plate full of brains.
I would recommend this book to everyone. If they were to tell me they haven’t yet read The Dead Saga or the Obsession series, I would insist they pick them both up right away. The Dead Saga books is still one of the only zombie series that I think has enough going on to set it apart from the run of the mill survivor stories we get in most zombie apocalypse books. Claire’s books are anything but ordinary, but I guess you will just have to find out how when you read the stories yourself!
October 30, 2014
I was given an ARC in return for an honest and fair review.
Odium Origins II is yet another great book from within the Odium Saga/World. In this book we get the backstory to a number of characters that were in the background in Odium II. Theses stories bring us back to the very beginning of the apocalypse. And show the perspective from the eyes of these individuals.
Odium Origins II deals with more then just the horror of the apocalypse, it deals with issues within the lives of these individuals before the apocalypse. Some of which is heart wrenchingly sad. The characters are bold and strong, whereas others are the lowest of the low (scum of the earth). The author Claire has managed to capture these characteristics to aplomb. Where you are really rooting for some of the characters and with others you'd kill them there and then if you could.
The world is dark, horrific and disturbing. Yet it keeps you hooked to the last page. Every story shows humans at their very best and worst. A brilliant read and a must for zombie horror fans.
The Odium universe just got bigger and better! I highly recommend this...Bring on Odium III
Odium Origins II is yet another great book from within the Odium Saga/World. In this book we get the backstory to a number of characters that were in the background in Odium II. Theses stories bring us back to the very beginning of the apocalypse. And show the perspective from the eyes of these individuals.
Odium Origins II deals with more then just the horror of the apocalypse, it deals with issues within the lives of these individuals before the apocalypse. Some of which is heart wrenchingly sad. The characters are bold and strong, whereas others are the lowest of the low (scum of the earth). The author Claire has managed to capture these characteristics to aplomb. Where you are really rooting for some of the characters and with others you'd kill them there and then if you could.
The world is dark, horrific and disturbing. Yet it keeps you hooked to the last page. Every story shows humans at their very best and worst. A brilliant read and a must for zombie horror fans.
The Odium universe just got bigger and better! I highly recommend this...Bring on Odium III
October 30, 2014
Maaan oh man. I got sucked right into this one. I lovelovelove this second foray into the Odium Origin stories. This group is all about the underdog. The put-upon, beaten-down, looks-stupid-so-its-a-fact, doormats. Claire C Riley has done a splendidly gross group of stories here with the perfect set of surprises in each story. I won't rehash each plot, because I'm sure someone else will, but if you like come-from-behinds, zombies, and blondes you will love this novella.
(As an aside, and I'm not sure why, but after I finished this, Simple Minds' Don't You Forget about Me was stuck in my brain) Thank you Claire C Riley.
(As an aside, and I'm not sure why, but after I finished this, Simple Minds' Don't You Forget about Me was stuck in my brain) Thank you Claire C Riley.
October 29, 2014
I was given an ARC for a fair and honest review.
WOW! I think this was the most intense reading for me. I found myself clinching my fist, not breathing, laughing and crying, all at the same time. Claire's characters are so real, that the reader becomes one of them. After reading Origins, I actually looked outside to see if the apocalypse had started.
I like Origins because you get to know some background on characters from Odium. I strongly recommend this book and any and all of her other stories too!
WOW! I think this was the most intense reading for me. I found myself clinching my fist, not breathing, laughing and crying, all at the same time. Claire's characters are so real, that the reader becomes one of them. After reading Origins, I actually looked outside to see if the apocalypse had started.
I like Origins because you get to know some background on characters from Odium. I strongly recommend this book and any and all of her other stories too!
November 13, 2014
I love these glimpses Claire C Riley gives us into a characters past & "the beginning".
I always love reading about who, what, why & where the characters are when the apocalypse kicks off & how their journey takes them from living everyday life into survival mode - crossing paths with Nina & gang. The stand-out feature of this book is in the action-based pacing.
The narrative is once again brilliant & I could really feel the characters going through the stages of emotions. As with the rest of the Odium series - the Origins part 2 also includes the essential zombie story elements-- monsters trying to eat people, people becoming monsters, tragic loss, Relationships, love & hate & world full of tragedy and disaster. I definitely recommend this one. It's a great read!
The entire odium series has got me hooked - every character & every story - the author has a way of making her readers live the apocalypse. I'm really looking forward to Odium III - especially after Riley left me exhausted, breathless & speechless in Odium II & in Odium origins part 2.
I always love reading about who, what, why & where the characters are when the apocalypse kicks off & how their journey takes them from living everyday life into survival mode - crossing paths with Nina & gang. The stand-out feature of this book is in the action-based pacing.
The narrative is once again brilliant & I could really feel the characters going through the stages of emotions. As with the rest of the Odium series - the Origins part 2 also includes the essential zombie story elements-- monsters trying to eat people, people becoming monsters, tragic loss, Relationships, love & hate & world full of tragedy and disaster. I definitely recommend this one. It's a great read!
The entire odium series has got me hooked - every character & every story - the author has a way of making her readers live the apocalypse. I'm really looking forward to Odium III - especially after Riley left me exhausted, breathless & speechless in Odium II & in Odium origins part 2.
November 7, 2014
I almost love to hate reading The Odium novellas because it makes the characters that much more real. The glimpses we get into their past, of where they were when it all started, of who and what they lost hurts.
I mean why would it matter there’re alive right? Well it does, it matters greatly. For if we weren’t privy to them we would just see the person they are now, who they became after the apocalypse, almost a shell of who they once were. We wouldn’t have gotten to see the hopeless romantic- who got the chance to look into the eyes of quite possibly his true love, a woman that was set free from one to hell to be thrust into another- but more or less on HER own terms, an underestimated blonde- although unfortunate circumstances got to show what she is actually made of, and the highs and lows your everyday teenager goes through.
Each character in OOII has shown – you can be your own HERO.
Eeeeeek Can’t wait for book3 #Mikey
I mean why would it matter there’re alive right? Well it does, it matters greatly. For if we weren’t privy to them we would just see the person they are now, who they became after the apocalypse, almost a shell of who they once were. We wouldn’t have gotten to see the hopeless romantic- who got the chance to look into the eyes of quite possibly his true love, a woman that was set free from one to hell to be thrust into another- but more or less on HER own terms, an underestimated blonde- although unfortunate circumstances got to show what she is actually made of, and the highs and lows your everyday teenager goes through.
Each character in OOII has shown – you can be your own HERO.
Eeeeeek Can’t wait for book3 #Mikey
November 26, 2014
Odium Origins Part Two contains more back stories from the Odium Dead Saga. Returning to the start of the zombie apocalypse, we see it from various points of view whose lives are completely different. It is those differences that define how the individuals react to the start of the apocalypse in very different ways.
While I was rooting for the demise of certain heinous characters - and not by zombie - others I just felt sorry for, and worry about their mental health in the months and years to come. My favorite characters were, by far, Max and Constance. These two kick-ass partners will survive no matter what.
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
While I was rooting for the demise of certain heinous characters - and not by zombie - others I just felt sorry for, and worry about their mental health in the months and years to come. My favorite characters were, by far, Max and Constance. These two kick-ass partners will survive no matter what.
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
January 27, 2015
Claire has done it again. Personally I love this series. Odium origins 2 covers four character stories of characters from odium the dead saga. All four stories are amazing. I am so thankful that Claire is doing these origin stories to get to know all these supporting characters. Claire has a fan for life with me and I am so looking forward to the next chapter of the odium saga and what is in store for all these characters down the road. On a side note thank you Claire for making Mathew an awesome character :)
January 11, 2015
I have read all in this series and I am a mega fan. This is a great zombie book full of short stories. And really each one could be developed into a book of its own..........please. pretty please. There is nothing more I can say other than if zombie books are you thing then you will enjoy this well written smart book.
February 24, 2015
More More More!!
April 5, 2022
I wish I would have read this one right after book 2, as these are characters that we met in book 2 - and some of the names I do remember, but they just aren't ones I remember as much as the characters we met in book 1 (and in 1.5). Still a nice way to see how each person lived before the start of the apocalypse and how it changed them into the people we got to know in the series. I'm sure when I do a reread at some point, things will make sense.
November 6, 2022
Unhinged Origins
I must admit I’m in love with these origins stories. The two middle stories were not as compelling in my opinion as the first story then Anne and Dean just hit it out of the ballpark. I at first was wondering what more could we learn about them after Odium 2 but boy was I wrong. Yes they were somewhat unhinged but the changing dynamics with Malcolm brought a deeper understanding of their behavior. Understanding, not empathy.
I must admit I’m in love with these origins stories. The two middle stories were not as compelling in my opinion as the first story then Anne and Dean just hit it out of the ballpark. I at first was wondering what more could we learn about them after Odium 2 but boy was I wrong. Yes they were somewhat unhinged but the changing dynamics with Malcolm brought a deeper understanding of their behavior. Understanding, not empathy.
May 18, 2025
Love the back stories!
I enjoyed all the backstories in this one, enchanted gave insight I to characters we’ve met. Dean and Anne definitely stand out…Anne certainly surprised me!
I think my favorite part is the descriptions of what in was line at the beginning of the apocalypse. I like learning now everyone experienced it in their own way.
Great series and it keeps getting better!
I enjoyed all the backstories in this one, enchanted gave insight I to characters we’ve met. Dean and Anne definitely stand out…Anne certainly surprised me!
I think my favorite part is the descriptions of what in was line at the beginning of the apocalypse. I like learning now everyone experienced it in their own way.
Great series and it keeps getting better!
January 17, 2020
Wow Za!!!!
The stories about this group blew me away!!! I sat down with this book and read it without stopping!!! I could not pry myself away from this one!!! I loved every story!!! I loved the carnival story!!! I loved Ann’s story (they are crazy)
The stories about this group blew me away!!! I sat down with this book and read it without stopping!!! I could not pry myself away from this one!!! I loved every story!!! I loved the carnival story!!! I loved Ann’s story (they are crazy)
April 23, 2018
A little in sight to other characters I liked it
July 18, 2019
Must read
Wow another amazing book by Claire just loving these books can't wait to read the other books in this series highly recommend these books
Wow another amazing book by Claire just loving these books can't wait to read the other books in this series highly recommend these books
December 18, 2020
This series is very addictive!
December 23, 2022
Great read
I really like these Origin books. So cool to revisit some of the characters I had kinda forgotten about. I hope more will be written!
I really like these Origin books. So cool to revisit some of the characters I had kinda forgotten about. I hope more will be written!
January 7, 2025
Good read.
I really enjoy reading all the different character's perspectives and how well the novellas go along with the full-length books.
I can't wait to read more of the series and hopefully, more character's paths will cross.
I really enjoy reading all the different character's perspectives and how well the novellas go along with the full-length books.
I can't wait to read more of the series and hopefully, more character's paths will cross.
March 2, 2024
Loving this series and love the back stories
January 12, 2016
The Bimbo - none of the characters seem like a bimbo to me but the main character Mathew or Matty did mention a non bimbo type girl that he calls Brown Eyes with whom he shares a romantic ride on a Ferris wheel that turns horribly wrong. His friend Darrell who is equally non-Bimbo-ish saves them from the ride. This first story was actually called HOUSE OF GLASS. After losing his new girl and his old friend he meets up with a lady named Jessica and they driveaway in the Prius.
The second story,THE BOOK NERD, is about Susan and her abusive husband Ken who are having a business dinner with Ken's colleague Phil. Susan has been a secret prepper for many years because she is an avid BookReader of any type of genre.
In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, The Hero (Reluctant?) is a quick thinking office gal, Max, who wears kitten heels and saves most of the office from zombies, even the catty, jealous woman, because she believes us girls need to stick together. She is joined by her girlfriend Constance and they drive off into the sunset to find their dog Chi-Chi.
The Friends, Anne and Dean, in THE GHOST TOWN give a great background story of a strange town that Mikey and Nina travel through in another Odium book. Excellent story.
The second story,THE BOOK NERD, is about Susan and her abusive husband Ken who are having a business dinner with Ken's colleague Phil. Susan has been a secret prepper for many years because she is an avid BookReader of any type of genre.
In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, The Hero (Reluctant?) is a quick thinking office gal, Max, who wears kitten heels and saves most of the office from zombies, even the catty, jealous woman, because she believes us girls need to stick together. She is joined by her girlfriend Constance and they drive off into the sunset to find their dog Chi-Chi.
The Friends, Anne and Dean, in THE GHOST TOWN give a great background story of a strange town that Mikey and Nina travel through in another Odium book. Excellent story.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 6, 2023
Title: Odium 2.5: Origin Stories
Series: The Dead Saga 2.5
Author: Claire C. Riley
Publisher: Createspace
Edition: Paperback
Amount of Pages: 175
Genre: Apocalypse, Zombies, Thriller, Romance, Adult
Spice: 1 /5 peppers
Cliffhanger:
HEA/HFN:
Cheating:
Triggerwarnings:
Love Triangle:
Insta Love/ Insta Lust:
Single Parent/Kids/Pregnancy:
Date Read: 16-11-2022
Favorite Quote:
Review:
I didn't like this book as much as I did the other prequel stories. I wished we'd gotten other peoples stories. I expected the stories to be about different people as well so to get stories about people we don't really know was a bit disappointing.
The stories didn't make me like some of the characters either. So yeah, these stories are not my favorite.
Rating:
3 stars
Series: The Dead Saga 2.5
Author: Claire C. Riley
Publisher: Createspace
Edition: Paperback
Amount of Pages: 175
Genre: Apocalypse, Zombies, Thriller, Romance, Adult
Spice: 1 /5 peppers
Cliffhanger:
HEA/HFN:
Cheating:
Triggerwarnings:
Love Triangle:
Insta Love/ Insta Lust:
Single Parent/Kids/Pregnancy:
Date Read: 16-11-2022
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Review:
I didn't like this book as much as I did the other prequel stories. I wished we'd gotten other peoples stories. I expected the stories to be about different people as well so to get stories about people we don't really know was a bit disappointing.
The stories didn't make me like some of the characters either. So yeah, these stories are not my favorite.
Rating:
3 stars
August 23, 2023
The backstories
I enjoyed Odium 2.5. This time, I read 2.5 before 2. Hopefully, now with the awake background information, Odium 2 will be extra packed!
I will continue this series and would recommend it for adults. It's the zombie storylines. There's a lot of mature content.
I enjoyed Odium 2.5. This time, I read 2.5 before 2. Hopefully, now with the awake background information, Odium 2 will be extra packed!
I will continue this series and would recommend it for adults. It's the zombie storylines. There's a lot of mature content.
September 23, 2019
Can't wait for the next book in the series!!
April 18, 2016
Actual rating - 3.5
Another decent read.
Another decent read.
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