Sick
by Tom Leveen
Plot:
The story takes place in a small town that is
overrun with a disease that make the infected hostile against those that are
not. When things go bad at the town’s fenced in high school and the protagonist
Brian gets trapped in the drama room he realizes that he has to save his sister
and ex girlfriend from the infected students before they get them.
My thoughts:
While the book has all the things a zombie book
should have, namely suspense, horror, and gore, it does not do too much to
expand on it. While the author does make it so that the infected are not undead
but sick with a disease, this makes it difficult morally for the survivors to
kill them even when they directly threaten their lives and they have seen what
they do to people they catch, the suspense and horror go away towards the
middle of the book, even the gore starts to go away, though it comes back every
once and a while. I liked the characters though sometimes you just wonder why
they say or do some things and the setting was quite interesting. You can feel
bad for the characters and understand their fears and worries but the
protagonist Brian and his friend Chad can do or say things that don’t make much
sense.
I
recommend this book as it is still a good read and you may enjoy it more than I
did though I don’t recommend it for those that can’t take very descriptive gore
in books. For its few flaws I can still recommend Sick by Tom Leveen to lovers
of zombie horror stories.
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