The next book has also been on my kindle for a LONG time. I needed a little bit of gore, horror and all around insanity. So I decided to go with The Devil Next Door by Tim Curran.
Louis is your average guy. Happily married, great job, dream house in a dream neighborhood. Then one day it all changes. It all starts when Louis spots two guys beating the ever living shit out of another guy and leave him for dead. Louis, being the stand up guy that he is, attempts to help the guy who's been beaten. Only to have the half dead guy attempting to kill him. Louis manages to fend the guy and ends up killing him. This whole situation becomes even more bazaar for Louis when two cops show up and don't even care about the now dead dude. In fact the cops are kicking and prodding the dead guy. Disturbed, Louis run's home as fast as he can.
Society goes down hill pretty quick from here. We find out very quickly that society is reverting to cavemen and women behavior. Killing, raping and forming "tribes".
Louis meet's up with his neighbor girl, Maddy. Who had somehow come back from these violent urges everyone else in town seems to be afflicted with. But she's scared she could go all cave woman again at any moment. Together they try to get to the bottom of why humanity has decided to de-evolve.
While I loved the shocking gore and violence in this book, it does end up getting old about half way through. I found myself skipping through scenes of gore near the end. But i must say it started with a bang.
The reason we are given as to why everyone is all cavemen like is a really big let down. I nearly threw my kindle across the room, but instead I settled for a rolling of the eyes.
Louis is a likable guy and you really do feel for him. He's lost his wife and desperately wants to find her, yet save everyone else at the same time. You want him to succeed, but really don't see how he can since this turns out to be a world wide epidemic. When he finally gives in to the caveman urges, it's heartbreaking but rather expected.
Maddy is a good kid who comes from a crummy family. Her mom is the town whore and she has no dad. Yet Maddy pushes herself to be a good person. Her transformation from a smart, down to earth teenager, to a sex craved, violent caveteen is rather interesting. Maddy finally find's her place as a "huntress" and finally grow's a backbone. I say good for her.
This story actually reminds me a lot of Haters by David Moody. But with far more brutal violence and rape. It's worth a read, but I'll only be reading it once. There are better society crumbing around itself stories out there.
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