Title : Half a Million Dead Cannibals
Author : Kari Gregg Kari Gregg
Genre(s) : Gay Romance, LGBTQ+, Fantasy, Paranormal, Zombie Apocalypse
Published : September 28th 2017 (First published March 4th 2013)
My Rating : 4 out of 5 Stars
All that’s keeping Riley from the man he’s falling in love with are the ruins of a city filled with half a million dead cannibals.
Strangers, Riley and Graham sheltered together in a basement storage unit when the zombie outbreak slammed into the world three months ago. They lived through the first blast of the plague, but they may not last much longer among survivors scrambling for dwindling resources. They agree to hike from the city and to the safety of the mountains. They didn’t count on the storm they hoped would cover their exit developing into a Nor’easter, though, and they sure didn’t think their visibility would shrink so badly that they’d hike into the leading edge of a zombie swarm, either. In the chaos of escaping the ravenous horde, they are separated, with Graham racing toward feral dog packs to the east and Riley sprinting to hostile survivors hunting them to the west.
Nobody said finding and keeping a quality guy (alive) during the apocalypse would be easy.
Strangers, Riley and Graham sheltered together in a basement storage unit when the zombie outbreak slammed into the world three months ago. They lived through the first blast of the plague, but they may not last much longer among survivors scrambling for dwindling resources. They agree to hike from the city and to the safety of the mountains. They didn’t count on the storm they hoped would cover their exit developing into a Nor’easter, though, and they sure didn’t think their visibility would shrink so badly that they’d hike into the leading edge of a zombie swarm, either. In the chaos of escaping the ravenous horde, they are separated, with Graham racing toward feral dog packs to the east and Riley sprinting to hostile survivors hunting them to the west.
Nobody said finding and keeping a quality guy (alive) during the apocalypse would be easy.
In the ruins of civilization after the zombie apocalypse, there were no tomorrows. Riley believed that with Graham at his side the wispy hope of a tomorrow didn’t feel as doomed and distant...
For a short story, this book has it all. The tensions was there right from the start and very intense.
Riley was on his running from the chaos caused by the zombie attacks when he accidentally meet Graham. The two then find a safe place on a basement. Together they lived there for weeks until the food supplies they have from the café basement start to run out.
The choices then to stay and die or go find another safe shelter and find food to keep survive, which that means they must out from their safe zone and facing the zombies.
The journey to find the safe place and keep survive feels so intense enough to make you hold your breath more then once. The romance the author put on the story between the scary moments feels right and could light up the situations. And that what make the story enjoyable enough to read in one sit.
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