Survivor Song
By Paul Tremblay
- Release Date: 2020-07-07
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
“Absolutely riveting.” — Stephen King
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.
Dr. Ramola "Rams" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an infected neighbor—and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.
Natalie’s fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares—terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink.
Paul Tremblay once again demonstrates his mastery in this chilling and all-too-plausible novel that will leave readers racing through the pages . . . and shake them to their core.
Reviews
Meh…
3By Milo the Accounting JediMeh. Well written, not a great ending.Survivor song
2By AshSmash923It just ended! Worst ending ever. That sucked.Interesting idea
2By mtcjjThe idea behind this book is interesting enough but the plot just never gets there.Good story. Not very long
4By bigDsweetpeeIt was to short and not scaryBeautiful horror
5By kissdaddyNo other author can make me feel the horror like Tremblay. His prose and style are true art.Eerily similar to current pandemic but exemplified by a million
4By kaykaybean13Great story and kept me invested and felt very connected to the main characters, their fear, anxiety and bond they had for each other. Similar parallels with current government protocols power and misinformation about our current pandemic. The right wing conspiracy theorists and their attacks on the citizens and taking the law into their own hands was perfectly executed and the consequences and destruction of their involvement was as we all fear. They hindered rescue workers from helping and assisting the health professionals they were delusional and misled by all the misinformation and lured into the group becUse they shared the same anger bitterness and need to blame someone for the failure of the life they envisioned to the one they were currently living. They used violence and force to solve any problems they deemed through their shared disillusionment and insane theories of government being the one who set off the virus to make $ on the vaccine and to control their citizens and they shot down any vehicles leaving Massachusetts because they believed they were busing infected humans out into the rest of the population to spread the virus yet the truth was the government threw Nat and Rams off their bus bc Nat was infected and they didn’t wNt her contaminating the rest of the passengers
