Eric L. Harry

Utterly ridiculous. Day One: North Korea invades South Korea; completely independently Russia renews a recent war with China by launching tactical nukes; also completely independently there is an (attempted) military coup in Russia but the coup leader mistakes five nuclear weapons fired at Moscow by China (combined with the US military call up because of the Korean situation) as an attack by the US (even though the US are/were allies against China in the recent war) so he launches a nuclear attack against US military targets. The US counter-launches against Russian military targets. Day Two: the Russian coup has been put down; the legitimate Russian government and the president agree it was all a mistake, but the US vice president stages a coup of his own -- that's where I gave up.… (mer)

Trigger warning: violence, rape

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for allowing me to read and review this overall well-written zombie apocalypse novel by Eric L. Harry. I absolutely loved the pacing and detail that went into the science behind this. This is the sort of thriller that you cannot put down. A virus from centuries ago thaws in the Siberian tundra and a remote mining camp is infected. Scientists are sent in to determine pathology, including epidemiologist Emma, who is infected when her helicopter is attacked upon landing. Much of the story centers around her, as she's kept in incubation for observation, and her twin sister Isabel, a neuroscientist trying to shed light on the brain changes that cause the infected to become violent and attack in swarms.

Please excuse typos/name misspellings. Entered on screen reader.… (mer)

"Pandora: Outbreak", the first book in this series gave me nightmares it was so well written. The second one and now this one, though, are not nearly as good. No one who knows anything about military siege theory would set themselves up as Noah and his family did in book 2, "Pandora: Contagion" and so it's stupid that they are forced to abandon their redoubt so quickly and in such disarray. So much of the story is logistics for each of the three POV, and not story development. I was greatly disappointed.

I received a review copy of " Pandora: Resistance" by Eric L. Harry from Rebel Base Books through NetGalley.com.

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https://www.librarything.com/work/20986420/edit/150477084… (mer)