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The writing is very dry, in a mid century way. (The first edition of this book was written in the 60s. This version was released in the mid 90s, just after the author’s death.)
I appreciate that she has taken time in this recent chapter to touch on the policies that the private funeral industry espoused during the AIDS epidemic and the injustice thereof.

Chapter 1 is hilarious. We’ve skewered a man with the nickname Colonel Cinders and airbrushed makeup from a company called Dinair Airbrush Systems at a conference where the author was a guest.

The jump from mid-20th century in the 2nd book to what might be 23rd century in this book doesn’t follow the narrative of the previous books & is disorienting. The only links so far are,(in name only), to Clay from the second book & Doro, (the previous antagonist), appears to have been replaced by a disease that causes his compulsions to arise in the infected characters. This is my least favorite of the series.

This is already a tension filled read. Blake’s car has been pulled over, he and his family have been kidnapped in what spears to be a post-apocalyptic near future.
In my 1984 trade paperback copy, the previous reader has written her notes on a blank page in the back.
“Shifting perspectives between victimizer/victim”
“What is human?”