by K.C. Jones (Jones)
Black Tide is a horror novel reminiscent of disaster thrillers. Instead of something bad happening to people insolation, two people who were in relative isolation come out to find a civil disaster in progress and everyone too busy dying to explain what’s going on.
Beth has had trouble keeping her life together but is currently on a good streak as she house-sits (and dog-sits) for a wealthy couple in the Pacific Northwest. Mike is a burned-out film producer trying to drink himself to death next door. There’s a meteor shower the night they meet that leaves strange objects scattered down the beach. Outside their empty-for-the-season neighborhood, they encounter people trying to flee the area by boat and by road. The two of them — plus Jake the yellow lab — soon become stuck on a beach with a violent, unknown threat.
Highly engaging.
(Recommended for fans of Stephen King’s short stories “The Raft” and “The Mist”, the Strugatsky short story “Roadside Picnic”, the films Attack the Block, Skyline , and Nope, or Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer.)
( official K.C. Jones web site )
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by Garren H.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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