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Barricaded into a city block called The Station, two hundred souls have survived the apocalypse. So far. Was it a bomb? A biological attack? Phase one of an invasion? No one knows. The Long Silence has begun. After dark, thousands of the city's inhabitants - neither living nor dead - prowl the streets snatching survivors. The Station is under constant threat. Each day a lottery decides the seven members of The Kill Crew - a night shift of civilian soldiers. Their mission is simple: Extermination. Sheri Foley, a nobody in the days before the Long Silence, discovers she has the heart of a survivalist. She becomes one of the toughest members of The Kill Crew. But there are enemies inside the Station too. The evils of the old world persist and Sheri Foley must fight them all.
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Barricaded into a city block called The Station, two hundred souls have survived the apocalypse. So far. Was it a bomb? A biological attack? Phase one of an invasion? No one knows. The Long Silence has begun.
After dark, thousands of the city's inhabitants - neither living nor dead - prowl the streets snatching survivors. The Station is under constant threat. Each day a lottery decides the seven members of The Kill Crew - a night shift of civilian soldiers. Their mission is simple: Extermination.
Sheri Foley, a nobody in the days before the Long Silence, discovers she has the heart of a survivalist. She becomes one of the toughest members of The Kill Crew. But there are enemies inside the Station too. The evils of the old world persist and Sheri Foley must fight them all.
If you're a regular reader of my reviews you'll know that I am a big fan of apocalyptic fiction. I enjoy reading it because I am slightly obsessed about survivor's stories. I also use this as an excuse to try out authors whose work I have never been exposed to before. I reckon if you can tackle the end of the world as a theme then you can tackle just about anything. I bought The Kill Crew on a whim, I have never read any of Joseph D'Lacey's other novels but I was browsing Amazon one day and it came up as a recommendation.
Sheri is an interesting protagonist. Prior to the events in The Killl Crew, she was just a normal person, living her life, doing her job and trying to get by. She has been forced by events to become a survivor, to adapt or die. Though she has developed a tough as nails exterior, as the story progresses, there is genuine insight into her fragile mental state. This is the story of a woman who is repeatedly pushed to her limits by situations she finds herself forced into.
I've always imagined that the end of the world would never be a happy place and the writing here offers the reader a glimpse of that. D'Lacey very effectively captures a sense of impending doom and bleakness that makes for a compelling read. I'll be honest, part of me was expecting a by the numbers tale of zombies but The Kill Crew is much more than that. The ambiguity about the cause of the outbreak, they grim determination of the survivors, the despair that permeates their existence all adds extra layers of depth.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the story's final act. The narrative veers off in an unexpected direction and ends on a poignant, bittersweet note that contains what may be just a glimmer of hope.
Less than eighty pages long The Kill Crew is easy to read in a single sitting and definitely falls into the category of small but perfectly formed.
Now that I am hooked on his writing the only question that remains is which of his other novels should I read next?
After dark, thousands of the city's inhabitants - neither living nor dead - prowl the streets snatching survivors. The Station is under constant threat. Each day a lottery decides the seven members of The Kill Crew - a night shift of civilian soldiers. Their mission is simple: Extermination.
Sheri Foley, a nobody in the days before the Long Silence, discovers she has the heart of a survivalist. She becomes one of the toughest members of The Kill Crew. But there are enemies inside the Station too. The evils of the old world persist and Sheri Foley must fight them all.
If you're a regular reader of my reviews you'll know that I am a big fan of apocalyptic fiction. I enjoy reading it because I am slightly obsessed about survivor's stories. I also use this as an excuse to try out authors whose work I have never been exposed to before. I reckon if you can tackle the end of the world as a theme then you can tackle just about anything. I bought The Kill Crew on a whim, I have never read any of Joseph D'Lacey's other novels but I was browsing Amazon one day and it came up as a recommendation.
Sheri is an interesting protagonist. Prior to the events in The Killl Crew, she was just a normal person, living her life, doing her job and trying to get by. She has been forced by events to become a survivor, to adapt or die. Though she has developed a tough as nails exterior, as the story progresses, there is genuine insight into her fragile mental state. This is the story of a woman who is repeatedly pushed to her limits by situations she finds herself forced into.
I've always imagined that the end of the world would never be a happy place and the writing here offers the reader a glimpse of that. D'Lacey very effectively captures a sense of impending doom and bleakness that makes for a compelling read. I'll be honest, part of me was expecting a by the numbers tale of zombies but The Kill Crew is much more than that. The ambiguity about the cause of the outbreak, they grim determination of the survivors, the despair that permeates their existence all adds extra layers of depth.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the story's final act. The narrative veers off in an unexpected direction and ends on a poignant, bittersweet note that contains what may be just a glimmer of hope.
Less than eighty pages long The Kill Crew is easy to read in a single sitting and definitely falls into the category of small but perfectly formed.
Now that I am hooked on his writing the only question that remains is which of his other novels should I read next?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This novella delves into the zombie genre in an unexpected way. It is rare to find literary prose exploring how survivors might really think and feel. Nor do we find in other works detailed thoughts an incipient victim might have. All this, beautifully told in an unexpected page-turning character-driven story.
When an event similar to a solar flare Carrington Event catastrophe happens, most of the population - Commuters, because they move at night towards the walled-in survivors - become dangerously deranged. A neat touch is that the afflicted seem to be mainly white-collar, middle-class people, though I suppose that would have included me. Survivors, with no real understanding of what happened or why they aren't victims, take refuge in a defended section of the city. They move out by day to scavenge, safe because the Commuters don't move at night. The survivors call themselves Stoppers because they are not Commuters, and return to stop in their refuge. Stoppers send out kill crews at night to keep the vicinity of their walled refuge clear of the zombies. The crew maybe different each night but they are `Seven on the crew again. Seven soldiers. Seven sinners. Seven stars.'
That's the initial part of the plot, but the story is driven by the three main characters. The main protagonist is Sheri, a feisty young woman, who has had to learn weaponry and develop a soldier's reflexes to survive. She is bitter about her man, Ike, who is easily dominated, unsure of himself, but knows he should stick with and by Sheri. Trixie is a younger woman - barely out of childhood, traumatized by what she'd witnessed. We are treated to a superb pen-portrait of Trixie with: `an island and there are no maps to tell you where her active volcanoes are situated, where her unpolluted streams are, her quicksand, her tribes of hungry cannibals.'
As the daytime scavenging is experienced, Sheri's observations of the brown vegetation, and the silence of Nature, hint at another cause of the disaster. Has Man driven the Earth's ecosystem into an unsustainable downward spiral that gave rise to a catastrophic dive? As Sheri leads her companions in an attempt to survive, you are invited to judge for yourself.
Lessons to be learnt? Yes, but the story is in itself a worthy exploration of the mind. I kept recalling Rachel Carson's Silent Spring while reading this. Send a copy to Obama.
When an event similar to a solar flare Carrington Event catastrophe happens, most of the population - Commuters, because they move at night towards the walled-in survivors - become dangerously deranged. A neat touch is that the afflicted seem to be mainly white-collar, middle-class people, though I suppose that would have included me. Survivors, with no real understanding of what happened or why they aren't victims, take refuge in a defended section of the city. They move out by day to scavenge, safe because the Commuters don't move at night. The survivors call themselves Stoppers because they are not Commuters, and return to stop in their refuge. Stoppers send out kill crews at night to keep the vicinity of their walled refuge clear of the zombies. The crew maybe different each night but they are `Seven on the crew again. Seven soldiers. Seven sinners. Seven stars.'
That's the initial part of the plot, but the story is driven by the three main characters. The main protagonist is Sheri, a feisty young woman, who has had to learn weaponry and develop a soldier's reflexes to survive. She is bitter about her man, Ike, who is easily dominated, unsure of himself, but knows he should stick with and by Sheri. Trixie is a younger woman - barely out of childhood, traumatized by what she'd witnessed. We are treated to a superb pen-portrait of Trixie with: `an island and there are no maps to tell you where her active volcanoes are situated, where her unpolluted streams are, her quicksand, her tribes of hungry cannibals.'
As the daytime scavenging is experienced, Sheri's observations of the brown vegetation, and the silence of Nature, hint at another cause of the disaster. Has Man driven the Earth's ecosystem into an unsustainable downward spiral that gave rise to a catastrophic dive? As Sheri leads her companions in an attempt to survive, you are invited to judge for yourself.
Lessons to be learnt? Yes, but the story is in itself a worthy exploration of the mind. I kept recalling Rachel Carson's Silent Spring while reading this. Send a copy to Obama.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Very much enjoyed this post-apocalyptic thriller from the author of Meat and Garbage Man. Its not a long read, but the images and depth of the writer's vision of a strange new world stay with you. The shocking ending is both powerful and haunting. Very much recommended for those that enjoyed his previous work. The author goes from strength to strength and is, in my humble opinion, a powerful new force in the horror genre.
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