A review by sea_caummisar
When the Cicadas Stop Singing by Zachary Ashford

4.0

I'm not ashamed to admit that I had to use the dictionary feature on my Kindle for this book. I suppose some people like that, and I'm not saying that I don't, but at one point I felt like the author was trying to be fancy with their vocabulary. I read often, and it's rare for me to use the dictionary. Usually, it's internationally slang that gets me. Anyways... moving forward.
This is a post apoc story. I always wonder where the author will start us (as the reader) in the apoc world. This is well after the apoc and we get the story of a woman who has made herself a new home atop a mountain. I use the term home loosely. It's more like a camp with several vantage points.

A bad man stumbles upon her camp. She's more afraid of him than the lizard people.


I agree that the end of world will bring out the worst evil in people. Zombies (or in this book; lizard people) wouldn't be our worst enemies after the collapse of civilizations