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Extinction Horizon by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
5.0
I'll edit this again when I'm finished, but man I just have to put into words what I'm feeling right now after this piece of the adventure I just finished!
I've followed Nick on his writing adventures since he put me in a post apocalyptic world created by aliens draining our planets of it's life giving waters. If you haven't read his other books, do yourself a favor and go read them NOW.
I knew I was going to read this book as soon as I'd heard about it, didn't even know what it was about just that Nick wrote it and I was gonna get it. After getting a few chapters into the book I was like, "Ok, good hook, and I'm kind of feeling it, but we'll see where this goes."
Several chapters in I was like, "No, no, please don't be another virus-cum zombie book." (not that I wouldn't enjoy it, I just have a TON in my collection that I haven't even gotten to yet, whenever Nick tells me there's a new book out of his it goes to the top of my stack.)
Small SPOILER ahead
Oh they don't get back up again after being killed, ok, I'm with you I'm with you now. Nicholas has a way to write action where you feel the terror, excitement, adrenaline as if you were there, as if you were part of crowd. I can't read his books before bed, one because I want to keep reading, two because I'm amped up from adrenaline.
This book follows a delta force team called Ghost, on a simple HVT extraction that quickly changes to a get the hell out of dodge mission. After discovering what they are dealing with the world starts to go to the dogs, so to speak. We are quickly approaching an extinction level event, and as Nick has a way of doing, he's brought together a team that will have to fight to survive and help each other, to help the world.
The harrowing evacuation of one of the doctors from the CDC in Atlanta, literally had me tensed up. I was flying through the story so fast I had to stop myself to make sure I read that correctly. You'll find yourself holding your breath until the action is over and not even realizing it until you breathe out.
Nick still has a way of creating characters that are real, people that you care about, could be friends with, could love, and even some you can hate. You become attached to his characters, but that's a dangerous thing to do in Sansbury's world. No one's safe in his novels, not even the hero. If you care to check back here when I've finished the book, please do, if you are like, 'this sounds awesome!!' Well stop screwin around and buy it man, it's a great book, that's going to be a great series.
Nick if you read this, like I always say man. Stay true to who you are as an author and artist. Don't let people change you, we love your work for what it is, and exactly how you write it.
I've followed Nick on his writing adventures since he put me in a post apocalyptic world created by aliens draining our planets of it's life giving waters. If you haven't read his other books, do yourself a favor and go read them NOW.
I knew I was going to read this book as soon as I'd heard about it, didn't even know what it was about just that Nick wrote it and I was gonna get it. After getting a few chapters into the book I was like, "Ok, good hook, and I'm kind of feeling it, but we'll see where this goes."
Several chapters in I was like, "No, no, please don't be another virus-cum zombie book." (not that I wouldn't enjoy it, I just have a TON in my collection that I haven't even gotten to yet, whenever Nick tells me there's a new book out of his it goes to the top of my stack.)
Small SPOILER ahead
Oh they don't get back up again after being killed, ok, I'm with you I'm with you now. Nicholas has a way to write action where you feel the terror, excitement, adrenaline as if you were there, as if you were part of crowd. I can't read his books before bed, one because I want to keep reading, two because I'm amped up from adrenaline.
This book follows a delta force team called Ghost, on a simple HVT extraction that quickly changes to a get the hell out of dodge mission. After discovering what they are dealing with the world starts to go to the dogs, so to speak. We are quickly approaching an extinction level event, and as Nick has a way of doing, he's brought together a team that will have to fight to survive and help each other, to help the world.
The harrowing evacuation of one of the doctors from the CDC in Atlanta, literally had me tensed up. I was flying through the story so fast I had to stop myself to make sure I read that correctly. You'll find yourself holding your breath until the action is over and not even realizing it until you breathe out.
Nick still has a way of creating characters that are real, people that you care about, could be friends with, could love, and even some you can hate. You become attached to his characters, but that's a dangerous thing to do in Sansbury's world. No one's safe in his novels, not even the hero. If you care to check back here when I've finished the book, please do, if you are like, 'this sounds awesome!!' Well stop screwin around and buy it man, it's a great book, that's going to be a great series.
Nick if you read this, like I always say man. Stay true to who you are as an author and artist. Don't let people change you, we love your work for what it is, and exactly how you write it.