1. Working Stiff- Rachel Caine
2. The Spider Goddess- Tara Moss
3. Redback- Lindy Cameron
4.Siren- Tara Moss
5. Dead Reckoning- Charlaine Harris
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The Brotherhood – YA Erskine It’s not too often that a crime novel surprises me – this one did. I’m still raving about it to anyone who’ll listen. Burn Bright and Angel Arias – Marianne de Pierres Ok, I cheated and put the two together. Sue me! The world building is beyond compare. The People Next Door – Christopher Ransom One of my new favourite authors – nobody creates a mood, particularly one of darkness, quite like him. 11:22:63 – Stephen King What can I say? A brick of Kingly goodness. The perfect way to end a year of fantastic reads.
In this age of uncertainty it is good to know that some people have their survival priorities in the right order. And while there are plenty of zombie survival guides out there few take the time to dive into the academics of post infestation life as the Official Zombie Handbook (Australia). The usual topics are covered in the Handbook – fortifications, supplies, weapons and transport – as well as a slew of in depth subjects such as how prepared the Australian government civil and military forces would be in case of a zombie outbreak. It’s rather surprising how accurate the articles get in fact; either the authors have made some great guesses or they have insider knowledge that they shouldn’t. Reading through the handbook it is often difficult to discern whether it has been written as a preparedness manual, role-playing guide or a critique of human nature. Whatever it is it does it well. Not even a third of the way through my first read and I was already calculating how long the food in my cupboard would last and whether I had enough toilet paper to see me through till help arrived. In a sense of seriousness the Handbook reads as a series of fictional essays; each focused on the minutiae of survival topics. The writing is clean and well formed with plenty of laughs and more than a few points to leave you thinking.
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