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ZERO: The Darkness
The Darkness, is a debut, full-length 50K word novel written by Marc Sloane.
It all started with an itch...
Arriving home to Los Angeles from Japan after a weeklong business trip, Brian Pace contracts the deadly Shinjuku X virus. Six month's later, and lucky to survive he wakes up in a hospital bed, surrounded by death with one thing on his his wife Veronica and his five-year-old son Jackson.
He rushes home to look for them, but they're long gone. The desert, he's told, is where they went, but getting there in a land of blood thirsty men and violent animals proves near impossible. Brian is tested, again and again, ultimately forcing him to redraw the rules of what he considers right and wrong, struggling to stay inside them. In a world where the only law is survival, some rules are meant to broken. And they will be.
This title is part of a trilogy, the two remaining installments to be released sometime in 2015.
It all started with an itch...
Arriving home to Los Angeles from Japan after a weeklong business trip, Brian Pace contracts the deadly Shinjuku X virus. Six month's later, and lucky to survive he wakes up in a hospital bed, surrounded by death with one thing on his his wife Veronica and his five-year-old son Jackson.
He rushes home to look for them, but they're long gone. The desert, he's told, is where they went, but getting there in a land of blood thirsty men and violent animals proves near impossible. Brian is tested, again and again, ultimately forcing him to redraw the rules of what he considers right and wrong, struggling to stay inside them. In a world where the only law is survival, some rules are meant to broken. And they will be.
This title is part of a trilogy, the two remaining installments to be released sometime in 2015.
141 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 31, 2014
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May 22, 2020
It was strange to read this during the quarantine period. I mean, a virus from Asia that is bombarding society. Isn't it familiar? This part put a smile on my face.
The story was quite episodic as if I had read a script for a TV series. First the apartment, the cannibal community, then the satanist ritual of the Hunter, the hospital and the desert.
The sudden jumps from the loose dialogues to mutilations and selected tortures were quite unexpected. I didn’t expect it to be such a morbid book. I’ve always found psychological horror interesting and one of my favourite genres ever, but I’m not always prepared for such random gores, especially not now because I thought it was just a simple post-apocalyptic dystopia. Boy, I was wrong... not that I'm upset about it.
At first, it seemed that the book would focus more on mental and emotional development and regression, and then suddenly the mutation line appeared out of nowhere. I basically like the way the virus affects aggression and how much different it affects a child than an adult. I'll take a little break then follow up with the sequel. I'm curious what the doctor's story will be.
The story was quite episodic as if I had read a script for a TV series. First the apartment, the cannibal community, then the satanist ritual of the Hunter, the hospital and the desert.
The sudden jumps from the loose dialogues to mutilations and selected tortures were quite unexpected. I didn’t expect it to be such a morbid book. I’ve always found psychological horror interesting and one of my favourite genres ever, but I’m not always prepared for such random gores, especially not now because I thought it was just a simple post-apocalyptic dystopia. Boy, I was wrong... not that I'm upset about it.
At first, it seemed that the book would focus more on mental and emotional development and regression, and then suddenly the mutation line appeared out of nowhere. I basically like the way the virus affects aggression and how much different it affects a child than an adult. I'll take a little break then follow up with the sequel. I'm curious what the doctor's story will be.
September 1, 2017
Different kind of story m
This book was slow to take off for me. Almost put it down. Was not expecting this story to go the route that it did. I'm hooked. Great story!
This book was slow to take off for me. Almost put it down. Was not expecting this story to go the route that it did. I'm hooked. Great story!
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