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Devil's Wake

By Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
Devil's Wake by Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due digital book - Fable

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An exciting paranormal novel from two award-winning authors about what happens when an alien race brings Earth to the brink of the Apocalypse.

What happens when an unprecedented infection sweeps the world, leaving the earth on the brink of the Apocalypse?

But this infection goes far beyond disease. Beyond even the nightmare images of walking dead or flesh-eating ghouls. The infected are turning into creatures unlike anything ever dreamed of . . . more complex, more mysterious, and more deadly.

Trapped in the northwestern United States as winter begins to fall, Terry and Kendra have only one choice: they and their friends must cross a thousand miles of no-man’s-land in a rickety school bus, battling ravenous hordes, human raiders, and their own fears.

In the midst of apocalypse, they find something no one could have anticipated . . . love.

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3.5
“This being YA makes so much sense now that I’ve finished the book. When it was recommended to me I assumed it was Adult fiction, but the structure of the story proved to be more immature than I was expecting. I’m not saying that all YA books are generic and bad, but most of the time you can tell when a book is intended for a younger audience. Anyways, this is your usual zombie apocalypse story where a bunch of random survivors join forces and shit eventually hits the fan while they’re on the road. However, the zombies in this version are smarter which makes them scarier than the ones in The Walking Dead, but we didn’t get to explore their deadly abilities as much as I wanted to. While I had a little fun being in this fictional world, I just couldn’t fully immerse myself in the story. None of the character’s personalities stuck out to me as endearing, so I didn’t connect with any of the characters like I did in the first season of The Walking Dead. I was trying so hard not to compare every single scene to The Walking Dead, but I hold this show so close to my heart that it was difficult not to. Overall, I’m disappointed that the story and the characters weren’t as fleshed out as I hoped they’d be.”

Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com. 

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