But there is also raging racism that leads the leaders of America to do horrifying, monstrous things. There is the grotesque living dead, of course. Outside of her family’s plantation, horrors abound. She has a fairly comfortable childhood, being raised by her mother and the other women on the plantation as an adored and willful child. Our main character is Jane McKeene, the black daughter of a plantation owner’s wife. What results is a dark, twisted, entertaining novel that is truer to reality than it should be.

Written by Justine Ireland and published in 2018, Dread Nation is an alternate-history horror novel that considers what our nation might have looked like if zombies had risen at the actual battle of Gettysburg. We’ve now entered the world of Dread Nation. But that it was also the start of a zombie apocalypse. Imagine if you will, a world in which the Battle of Gettysburg wasn’t just the end of the American Civil War. Lena takes charge and Lena gets what she needs, while taking no funny business. She is frankly a badass and I’m always surprised when men are able to write a female character with grit and guts in such a true way as Adams does here and in No Exit. She searches for answers for a sibling she barely knows, just to make sure that justice is served. Lena – a very empowered woman, as you’ll get to know – is a captivating character. “Nightmares do come true, but never in the shape you expect.” Hairpin Bridge, page 176 What follows is an adrenaline surge, from the very moment Lena and Ray park their cars on the bridge to meet. Lena convinces Officer Raymond Raycevic to meet her at Hairpin Bridge to give her closure, saying her therapist encouraged it. Lena promises her sister that she will get to the bottom of it – to the truth. Hopefully you can, Officer Raycevic.” It just so happens that Officer Raycevic is on record pulling over Cambry just one hour before her suicide. Cambry was a young woman living out of her car and travelling the nation when one day, she jumps from a bridge infamous for being a place of suicide.Ĭambry’s final words were a text to her sister: “Please forgive me. It tells the narrative of Lena investigating the supposed suicide of her twin sister, Cambry.

Hairpin Bridge has a similar outcome and feeling to me. No Exit was probably the best thriller I read during the year it was released.

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