Fans of V Wars, The Strain, LOST and I Am Legend: Don’t Miss this Genre-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller, the prequel to Bad Seed!★★★★★ “This prequel has all the right elements — mystery, intrigue, thrills, kills, and action. I can’t wait to see where this goes.”Don’t Look.Never let them look.The pain is always worse when they know…People are dying, and no one knows why. Knox Ryder is an illegal medic … pain is always worse when they know…
People are dying, and no one knows why. Knox Ryder is an illegal medic who dreams of becoming Authorized at The Citadel, a gated haven away from the violent, hand-to-mouth society known as The Grind. The opportunity would literally cost him years of his life—twenty years minimum since he doesn’t have the tuition—and when a gruesome accident actually opens the door, the new price of his dream is even steeper.
Blackmailed into delivering mysterious briefcases to the docks once a week, Knox has learned not to ask questions. He’s learned to keep his head down and do what he has to do to secure a better future in this new reality. But when that very future is threatened by the contents of the briefcases, even the guarded, concrete walls of The Citadel won’t keep the whatever is killing people at bay.
Those demons are all around us. Inside us. Waiting.
When time is currency, what’s your humanity worth?
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Feral is the prequel novelette to First Bloods, an all-new Dystopian Thriller series!
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This is a brilliant story and an amazing way to be introduced to an author I have never read before but shall definitely be keeping an eye out for in the future. It’s a pretty short story only taking just about 90 minutes or so for me to read. I found the plot to be very interesting, it’s a prequel to a series and it has made me very interested in the series and I’m excited to see what adventures, action and struggles are to be seen in the next books. I have a lot of questions that I’m excited about seeing answered in the forthcoming books. I’m so pleased to have found this author and this book, it’s mesmerizing and just plain brilliant!
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I enjoyed the premise of Feral, a dystopian world where life is a commodity. Cash is king, but credit means giving up hours or years off your life, all of this to serve a higher good of over-population. The premise reminded me of Repo Man. The ending wowed me as it delves into a genre that I love, which I won’t disclose (no spoilers)! I do think that it was too short. I wanted MORE from the characters. I wanted to know them, so I could feel them, so I could truly mourn them. The writing was well done as was the dialogue. I do wish Korn had slowed it down and invested more time in her characters so I could be more invested in them. Overall, a good read, and I do want to see what Korn does next. I will be reading her work in the future to see how this tale unfolds.
I suggest reading Feral before starting Bad Seed. You don’t have to but it makes more sense that way. Feral is like a prequel in a way to Bad Seed. With that being said on to the review.
I started off reading Nervous Waters and I fell in love with it. It was amazing. I later found out that this book connects to it in a way so I got on the bandwagon and gave it a shot. Let me just start off by saying wow! Feral is an incredible. I instantly feel in love with the characters. And felt everything they were feeling. Their camaraderie, fear, anger and so on. I was so invested I was rooting for them from the start. There is friendship, adventure, mystery, and so much more. So many clues, some for now and some for later, to help you navigate this strange new world. The world is a completely different place set in a Futuristic type world. And what a ride it truly was! I definitely recommend!! Was truly phenomenal!! This author is truly something. She can create a amazing and scary place from nowhere and giving you such wonderful characters to go along in said world not to mention all the twists and turns that leaves your mind utterly blown. The book is fast paced and sucks you in from the start. Beautifully written in a way that keeps you wanting, no needing, so much more.
I kind of came across this one by accident whilst looking for another book and the cover caught my eye and I had to read the blurb, then I decided I really liked the sound of the world within the book and just had to read it. The genre’s I have seen listed for the book are Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Thriller and Dystopian which I agree with them all and would possibly add Horror to that list too.
There’s a preface which explains the world and how society is expected to live. Basically, the world is rapidly becoming more and more over populated as well as everything being so expensive. The US leads the way to pass the new legacy credit laws that on first look seem to be the perfect solution to ever increasing to people paying medical bills or other debts. In exchange for payment you give years off the end of your life. A simple mathematical algorithm is used to calculate life span. If you die without paying your debt it is passed on to your next of kin and becomes their debt. If you have no family your debt is spread out among your community. Special chips called “legacy chips” are inserted in people’s brains and they keep track of years left and years owed. Anyone with a legacy chip is given notice when they are down to their last 24 hours so they have time to put anything they need to in order and say their goodbyes to friends and family.
Then the prequel begins with the three main characters of Pritchard, Knox and Donovan who all work at the increasingly dangerous ship yard. Pritchard loses his hat due to the wind and moans that the hat had cost him two hours of life! Knox tells Pritchard off for using his life hours to buy a hat that he could have lent him the money for. Pritchard is quite blasé about it saying that two hours is nothing in the terms of his life. Pritchard also berates Knox for thinking he can save enough money to ever leave the “Grind” where the poorer “have nots” live and gain entrance to the “Citadel” where the richer “have everything” people live and become a medic. Knox is pretty good as an unofficial medic outside the Citadel helping people who live in the Grind. He isn’t the only one who gives first aid and does the job of a Citadel medic out in the Grind with the poor people. An unlicensed medic in the Grind if caught would face a large amount of years taken from their lives, as would the person they were helping. When Knox is badly hurt, he insists on going to fellow Grind unofficial medic Nyssa for help instead of being taken to the Citadel and paying an extortionate amount of years to be helped. Knox is in for a shock as when he comes around from passing out, it soon becomes clear that Nyssa has had to do seem rather extensive surgery. However, these Grind medics are caught and blackmailed into working on something top secret within the Citadel. So, Knox and Nyssa get their wishes to work in the Citadel and train as medics but not in the capacity they wanted. They end up paying a higher price than years of their lives. The story then follows what Pritchard, Donovan, Knox and Nyssa have to do in exchange for living & working in the Citadel. It sounds simple, Nyssa is involved in making an injectable substance and Knox, Pritchard and Donovan have to take the syringes containing it secured in a brief case to the client and swap their brief case for one containing the payment from the client. Sound simple? It is until Donovan decides to open the brief case and use one of the syringes on himself and then even worse injects Knox with one of the other syringes. Things get worse when Donovan reveals he has spoken to someone with access to the labs and reveals sometimes the injections work and sometimes they are duds. There are also occasions when the injections cause the person to become out of control and Feral. Knox and Pritchard become even more horrified and nervous when Donovan reveals that his lab insider is actually Kira who is a cleaner. Donovan refills the used syringes with some other liquid he has as he was planning to use one of the syringes on himself all along but never revealed his intention to Pritchard and Knox. Knox hands the refilled syringes in the brief case over to the client and takes the brief case from the client containing the money.
They decide that they need to get back to Nyssa and find out what’s going on. As she makes the substance in the syringes surely, she will have an antidote. They also need to get away from the Citadel as soon as they can and disappearing into the Grind will be impossible. They decide to get Nyssa, and all go to the shipyard to try and get a ride to a far off island somewhere.
I guess the world and then the different substances and the powers they are supposed to give make this book sound complicated but honestly it is explained really well at the beginning of the book and throughout.
This novella length book is just the first of two prequels to book one of the First Bloods series and it does set the scene and foundations of the society really well. I was initially more interested in the whole idea of buying things with years from the end of your life but the plot seems to be going in a different direction, especially at the very end of the novella. The end of the prequel novella reminded me a little of Katie French’s Monster Island series, I can’t quite put my finger on it, it just gave me the same feeling of the possibilities to come next. I am looking forward to reading the second prequel when I can get to it, at the moment it seems a little expensive, especially when you compare the price to that of the first book Bad Seed which is book one of the First Bloods Series and I have pre-ordered for just 99p.
He wants to get into the citadel as an authorised medic which costs years of their lives. An accident makes this happen quicker. What will be fine inside? Will it be all he hoped? How will he cope if it is not? Follow him to see how he gets on
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As an introduction or prequel to a new series, this book is a compelling story! Fabulous characters and a great storyline in this new series, and this book is a peek into that series. I am looking forward to the next book!
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