Ready for a fright? I'm excited to participate in Nancy Gideon's Haunted Open House! For this spookytacular event, I have two scary reads for you:
Dead Trees by Eli Constant
Novel Description:
Subterranean humanoids, existing since the dawn of man, arose from the belly of the planet. Humanity was unprepared. The undergrounders came with nails and claws and speed to kill people in the night, dragging bodies downward into dark tunnels teeming with rabid life. Civilization is now a ghost of yesterday and the remaining humans fight for survival.
One thing’s for sure- a scientist mommy battling beasties better be handy with a scalpel.
Elise Swanson is a widow and mother. She fights and prays that she can keep her little, broken family safe. She drives and drives, day after day, trying to escape a threat that seems… inescapable. Her hope fades, food is scarce and she watches her eldest daughter’s attempts to soothe the younger babe. Then she meets Jason- a father mourning the loss of his son, masking his pain with bravado and charm. He’s strong, despite his sadness, and love re-grows within him. Weeks pass and Jason’s singular desire becomes the continued safety of Elise and her daughters.
Bloody fights with beasties define the survival-road the companions travel. Even a few moments of safety and relaxation elude the group; time and time again, Elise must kiss her children goodbye, just in case tomorrow never arrives.
Against all odds, they reach a government safe zone. Even there, Elise finds that there’s no rest for the weary.
Doctors O’Toole and Peters have been studying the beasties under lock and key, trying to find an answer, but the doctors aren’t interested in saving humanity. Forced to lead two lives, Elise assists the good doctors in their pursuits while working secretly in sublevel lab 8 with her own team, Nick and Jamie. Their combined knowledge may be the key- the only hope humanity has of reclaiming the planet from the beasties. As long as they can keep their research secret, safe from O’Toole and Peters, they might discover the way home, the formula to click Dorothy’s sparkling red shoes three times and begin to recreate Earth as it was… before the humanoids came out to play on the surface.
What will happen when Elise, a neural engineer, Jamie, a medical researcher, and Nick, a computer wizard, are humanity’s best hope? The answer might be surprising. Wrapped up in all the uncertainty, violence, science lingo and beasties, they will find a strange solution to a new Earth.
And her name is Margaret.
Odium by Claire C Riley
Novel Description:
It's better to die by the gun than die by the dead.
Nina’s life was irrevocably changed when humanity’s dead began to rise.
Now, she lives behind the walls.
The barricaded cities, erected by the government to protect the remnants of civilization, have become a brutal dictatorship- causing the inhabitants within to starve, steal and claw for survival. Life behind the walls has become as terrifying as roaming the zombie-ridden landscape beyond.
Citizens trade what they can to gain food, water, and shelter. Nina has only one currency—her body and she is tired of submitting herself to the greedy hands of the self-proclaimed leaders.
An opportunity to escape presents itself in the fate of a young girl named Emily-Rose. For the price of a stale piece of bread, she is set for banishment from the city, and most likely a horrific death at the hands of the deaders. Nina tells herself that it is sympathy and not self-preservation that makes her follow the young girl out of the walled metropolis, and into the overgrown world beyond.
Unused to fighting the deaders, Nina tries to scrounge for her survival and against her better judgment, begins to care for Emily-Rose. However, when you have a bread-stealing liability providing your only back up, survival seems even tougher. Nina is forced to fight for their lives, and with every zombie slain, she becomes fiercer, faster – a grim reaper with her not-so-sharp butcher’s knife.
Along the path to a safe-haven that might not exist, Nina and Emily-Rose meet Mikey who introduces them to a new life they could not imagine, a life above the ground. However, this new world brings new dangers, and darker shadows than she knew.
Nina finds out that the deaders aren’t the only thing to fear beyond the wall.
And that fear will not be ignored, or Forgotten.
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ReplyDeleteI KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER scared me - a lot.
Thanks, Mary! Oh, I like that too! The Shining always gets me!
DeleteOooooOh! Good 'n scary! Thanks for participating in the Hop, Melanie. Happy Haunting!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Nancy and for hosting this great hop!
Deletesubscribed thank you for the chance and favorite scary movies are the first FEW Freddy Krueger ones. They got dumb after about 3. Love Michael Myers (Halloween) and Jason (Friday the 13th )
ReplyDeleteYou are totally right about that, Joely!
DeleteRingu still totally creeps me out!
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I need to check that out, Elizabeth! Good luck!
DeleteI'm already subscribed (sarahpluto222@gmail.com) but are these ebooks or print books? I don't see where it says what version they are. If they are ebooks, I'll decline my entry, but my favorite scary movie is Carrie and The Shining. Thanks
ReplyDeleteHi Jan! thanks for stopping by! Looks like we are both fans of The Shining!
DeleteAlready a member! Favorite scary movies are Evil Dead (2013) and Sinister! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by, Julia! I still need to see Sinister! Thanks for the giveaway!
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Thanks, Jean! Good luck! My favorite too!
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