Brood X Review and $100 Home Depot Gift Card Giveaway Ends 5/30

Brood X by Michael Phillip Cash Amazon.com paper back $8.99 Kindle $O.99. 



Description:

Seth is laid off from work. His wife Lara just found out they are expecting a baby this summer. Seth plans on documenting the entire pregnancy with his brand new digital camcorder.

During an evening home watching television, the news reports that a swarm of cicada (Brood Ten) are expected to overwhelm the entire Northeast.



Brood Ten is vicious and ready to invade.

During a sweltering summer night, Brood Ten emerges and wreaks havoc with the electric grid, phone and cell service, wi-fi, food and water supply. Civilization as they know it is gone.

Seth and Lara are thrown back to the stone age in their own home with trillions of cicada trying to deposit their eggs and breed.


Review:

I picked this book up as a digital download around lunch time. By dinner I had called several friends to recommend it. I could not put it down. The book is listed as horror. I was surprised. I probably would have listed it as a thriller. Not really a blood and guts hack and slash book which is what I usually associate horror with. The book opens at an Emergency Room over run with trauma patients. We don't know what the big trauma was but the hospital is full and we are privy to a couple of security guards as they oversee the hospital. A paramedic invades their sanctuary bringing with him a video camera.

What unfolds on that camera is the guts of the story. It is a story that sucks you in and keeps you turning pages until the final scene. In the real world, news broadcasts often exaggerate the level of danger expected form weather events to the point that we become numb to their continuous over dramatization of the expected event.  A light shower becomes Storm Watch.Michael Phillip Cash expertly draws a picture of the pendulum swing of our reactions to the news of coming "catastophic" events. He pulls us along as the main characters experience the nightly chicken little report. The news outlets so sensationalizing  upcoming weather events that we don't know if we should prepare or mock.

And then he drags us along as Seth finds out happens when you don't prepare...and even if you do.

I devoured this book in a couple of hours. It was a great fast paced novel. If you are looking for a nightly read don't pick this up. It will keep you up all night trying to finish it. If you are looking for something to read by the pool...make sure you have plenty of sunscreen, because once you pick it up you will be riveted to the spot you are in until you get to the end of the wild ride that is this story.


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