Brian Jameson doesn’t even get a chance to pick a college before a worldwide pandemic breaks out—and his home is Ground Zero. After losing his parents and sister in a whirlwind of devastation, Brian’s war-veteran grandfather takes him under his wing. But when desperate looters attack Brian’s new home, he and his grandfather must flee into a wintery Midwestern wasteland now populated by … intelligent infected known as “Stalkers.”
These ghoulish creatures don’t shamble in hordes—they hide in the darkness waiting to strike, teeth bared in ghastly grins. And they laugh while they’re ripping you to shreds.
But with his grandfather’s training, Brian makes it to the home of his estranged childhood friends, twins Louis and Eva. And Brian gets a chance to experience something else he nearly missed: falling in love. Drawn to the determined—and ruthless—Louis, Brian escapes with him in search of an island paradise away from the relentless snow and infected.
But even if they make it there, it may not be the haven they’re hoping for.
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This book told the story of 3 people and even though I sometimes find it difficult to concentrate on more than 2 character’s stories with this I found I was able to read it comfortably. It is very well written and won’t be the last book I read by this author.
“They’re calling it “The Stalker Disease” because of how the infected hunt: they hone in on their prey, watch and wait, then strike from a hidden location.”
This was an okay zombie book for me but it just fell a bit flat. I’m not entirely sure why. It might be because I really didn’t like the main characters – but I’ve read other books with protagonists I didn’t like but still liked the overall book.
The plot was a bit scrambled, darting here and there when I think I would have enjoyed a more linear plotline.
All in all, it was just missing that makes a good or excellent book for me. Others have read it, though, and enjoyed it a lot. I guess that’s why there’s so many authors and so many books – catering to everyone’s specific reading wants and needs.
The story takes the reader, along within main character Brian Jameson from Kansas clear across the country. He’s joined by others along the way all fighting off the dreaded Stalkers.
Readable but not a book I’ll ever re-read.
I received this book from Nine Star Press through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.
Stalker/s Kindle Edition
by L.J. Hasbrouck (Author)
I received a review copy via NetGalley and am choosing to leave a fair and honest review.
Hasbrouck has given us the love child of King’s The Stand and Brooks’s World War Z.
A fast past, tension filled (in more ways than one) exploration of the end of the world and the only things that can survive it, love.
Just before Brian is set to start applying to colleges, his mother is attacked by a stranger with a creepy smile, horrible stench and a hunger for flesh. This kicks of a pandemic of a zombie-like infection, where people lose their empathy and conscience to exchange it for a homicidal tendency and a hunger for blood. Brian holes who with his grandparents to learn basic survival skills before he is forced into a journey across the Bible Belt. During the trip, he meets up with is childhood friends, the twins Eva and Louis, who join him as they try to find a safe place in a world that may not longer have one. All the while, Brian and Louis must fight the growing tension between them.
Along the way the encounter madmen with masked gangs, people who have gone insane from loneliness or fear and what appears to be a pacifist cult based on a new religion that blends a lot of voodoo with more Catholicism (yes, I know voodoo is a mix of African religions and Catholicism)
I don’t want to give any spoilers, but let me say, the fade to black at the Plantation and in the boat, were frustrating. If you can describe the splattering of brains, over and over, you certainly can show a little skin on skin action.
The end was an atomic blast of a twist that while I suspected some of it was coming, I was left breathless!
4 stars out of 5
https://www.amazon.com/Stalker-s-L-J-Hasbrouck-ebook/dp/B07MFW5XF1