And Then I Woke Up

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Devlin’s counter to the narrative is subtle and and in some ways radical, involving community efforts on a level I rarely see in such stories. There is real carnage enacted in these pages, and the sights, sounds, and even smells of this destruction are made very clear to the reader through the author’s description. Let me start off by saying this will be one of those books where you’ll have to let it simmer in your brain before deciding whether you liked it or not. A prescient premise drives this stunning weird tale from Devlin ( Unexpected Places to Fall from, Unexpected Places to Land): a disease renders the infected vulnerable to perceptions of relative realities, making them susceptible to “the fiction between the real and the perceived,” or what they refer to as “the narrative. Within the short novel, storytelling is the framing device while also acting as its own major force in the world.

Malcolm Devlin gives us a chance to answer that question as we dive head first into his novella ‘And Then I Woke up. Imagine you're minding your own business, washing dishes in the backroom of a restaurant and one of the waitresses rushes into the kitchen freaking out and asking how to lock the swinging doors. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. Devlin twists and breaks the typical zombie narrative without spoiling one of the cleverest conceits in recent horror.While fairly comfortable with his new life and identity and coming to terms with the realization that his previous life was somewhat of a lie, he breaks out with a newer resident to hunt down her old companion. Maybe we have mental health issues that run in our family that have us considering that horrifying reality or maybe we’ve had some run in with paranoia briefly ourselves. When I say this is a love story, I mean this is a story about someone who believed in something impossible and beautiful and dangerous with such strength of character and devotion that they followed the thread of it all the way to the very end, no matter what the world threw at them.

Still, it's short, it's a interesting, different take on zombies, and it's certainly not bad - just not a good fit for me.

If you purchase something through the links in this article we may receive a small commission or referral fee. In this overly long sequel, Violet, Xaden, and their dragons are determined to find a way to protect Navarre, despite the fact that the army and government hid the truth about these creatures. It was also the first book I read by her but I have read others since and they have better endings so if you enjoyed the story and it was just the ending that you didn't like it's worth trying some more by her! There's less action, more character development and conversations on humanity and the subversion of the typical zombie trope. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.