Wake
Elizabeth Knox
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
3.70
· 10 ratings · 448 pages · Published: 01 Nov 2013
On a sunny spring morning the settlement of Kahukura in Tasman is suddenly overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As the group of try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes apparent that this isn't the first time that this has happened, and that they aren't all survivors and victims - two of them are something quite other. And, it seems, they are trapped with something. Something unseen is picking at the loose threads of their characters, corrupting, provoking, and haunting them.
Wake is a book that asks: 'What are the last things left when the worst has happened?' It is a book about extreme events, ordinary people, heroic compassion—and invisible monsters.
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- horror 3
- dystopia 3
- action / adventure 3
- survival 2
- contemporary 2
- spooky 2
- zombies/undead 2
- post-apocalyptic 2
- aliens 1
- paranormal 1
- literary fiction 1
- monsters/creatures 1
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