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Deadline

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

I’m not much of a hor­ror fan ¹, as gen­er­ally most hor­ror involves the world being com­pletely fubared with no hope of ever fix­ing it. And I pre­fer my enter­tain­ment to con­tain some glim­mer of hope. Occasionally though I run across some­thing so good and so dark that it just knocks my socks off.

Feed was one of those and from friends of mine, I’d heard that Dead­line was just as good too. When it first started I wasn’t sure if it was going to live up to it’s hype. But it has, it really has in many ways. I really like the .… cop­ing mech­a­nism Shaun has. But the big thing that really got me? The thing that’s got me feel­ing a need to talk about the book here when I’ve not even got­ten halfway through yet? That’s a mas­sive spoiler that I’ll only men­tion after the cut. Before the cut, I’ll just say it’s the end of chap­ter 9 where we find out where the reser­voir con­di­tions really mean.

Right so if you’ve already read the book or don’t mind spoil­ers, feel free to con­tinue past this point. Oth­er­wise stop now, you’ve been warned. Read more