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I am a parent and I have to give this bookfor making me feel queasy, Not an easy chore. A truly frightening look at how a plague could wipe us out today, YUP diseases adapt to modern meds such as antibiotics, I spent three months in a hospital fighting infections with IV meds and barely survived, The experience is as ugly as the writer discripes and I simply dont want to think of having to endure my kids going thru that, Whew, think I'm gonna go wash my hands, Enjoyed this book but it was over far too quickly and I want to know what happened next :o
Last month the folks over at Pocket Star, Simon amp Schuster's eBook imprint, released Lisa C.
Hinsley's novella PLAGUE. The description called it a thriller in the vein of Contagion, . . so of course I had to read it!

Maybe not the best book choice while still suffering from an epic cold turned sinus infection but I finally dug it out of the digital TBR pile last night and dove in.
And it's a whammy of a read! Brutal both in terms of gory description and heartwrenching emotion, PLAGUE is a terrifying premise,

London has been hit by a deadly new strain of bubonic plague, Antiobiotic resistant, the outbreak has proved to befatal, At first, authorities are able to keep the outbreak fairly low key by claiming that

it's been limited to the southern areas, Certain that it hasn't reached their neighborhood, Liz and Johnny at first believe that their young son, Nathan, is suffering from a cold, When his neck begins to swell, however, Liz can no longer hide from the truth: her son has the plague, Now the family has been forcibly quarantined in their home as they count down their son's final days and wait to catch it themselves,

This is a short read that takes place of the span of just a few days, It really is a scary story especially considering I do live in an area that's still affected by what most consider to be a medieval contagion, And it's true that there are still fatalities due to plague even today, minimal as they may be,

Hinsley very quickly sets the tone and pacing of the book, moving right into the action so to speak, And since the infection progresses so quickly, the pacing is pretty breakneck, But the main focus of the story is the impact this has on the family, Liz and Johnny and Nathan have so little time left together once the infection begins and Hinsley quite impressively portrays the emotions at play, I think it makes Plague an incredibly intense read that definitely makes Hinsley one to watch,

Hinsley's next book, THE ULTIMATE CHOICE, is due out from Pocket Star in February, In the meantime, I have to recommend PLAGUE to anyone in search of a great nightmarish night's read! I guess I wanted a bigger book with a wider cast and a greater look at society breaking down but I suppose that's been done before and the parts of that were hinted at in a sinister way which was good.


This is about a single family dealing with the inevitable death, they seem to go through the classic stages of grief, sometimes in a corny way but believable just the same.
The narrow focus allows a better look at how individuals and a family and actually cope with knowing what is coming,

It's difficult to say I enjoyed a book so bleak and sad but I felt it was done well especially given it's brevity and I'd read more from Ms Hinsley in the future.
Fascinating read! I couldn't put the book down! It was so riveting, I felt as if I were watching a medical drama unfolding right before my eyes.
Plague is a great imagining of the disintegration of society in the wake of a pandemic, Johnny and Lizs reactions to their sons illness and to the shrinking world around them are uncomfortable in their accuracy and realism, The power of the story however lies not within their roiling emotions but to the feeling of impotence, Theirs is a situation about which they can do nothing, about which the government can do little, and for which there is almost no hope, As frustrated as Liz and Johnny may become, a reader feels that much worse because s/he recognizes the futility of that frustration, It is not a tyrannical government that boards up their house so much as a desperate government with few options of preventing the spread of the pandemic and even fewer resources.
Their actions are the very definition of sacrificing a few for the greater good, regardless of how futile their efforts prove to be in the end,

What makes Plague so scary is not the governments actions but rather the psychological impact of being cut off from society while facing death, Lizs feelings are extremely distressing to watch unravel and descend into the depths of despair, Mothers everywhere will ache with Lizs sense of hopelessness at not being able to help ease the pain holding her loved ones hostage and will envision their own reactions to a similar scenario with shudders and furtive prayers of gratitude that it is just a work of fiction.
The idea of having to face everything alone, without the ability to call friends or family for comfort or take a walk to get a bit of a break, is true horror.
Liz experiences every mothers nightmare tenfold given the circumstances in which she finds herself,

As gruesome as Plague is in its depiction of a longago disease made modern and the extreme measures people will take to protect their loved ones and as bleak a picture as Ms.
Hinsley creates about societys relatively easy and very quick collapse in the face of a major catastrophe, Plague does end with a sliver of hope, No matter how terrible things may get, humankind will always find some way to survive, and the story of Plague is no different, Humans survive it is what they do best, It then becomes a matter of not letting the terrible events completely bury one with grief but rather overcoming those terrible events through determination and a refusal to quit hoping.
Lisa Hinsley has written a gruesome account of what might happen if an incurable and untreatable plague were to rear its ugly head in modern times, A young couple find their fouryearold son has contracted the plague, and the story follows their experiences as they deal with the aftermath, The government seals victims into their homes in an attempt to keep the deadly disease from spreading further, The innocent child suffers as the parents watch the progression of the infection in helpless horror, knowing they cannot save the boy, and also knowing they are next.


The whole drama plays out within the confines of the family home, and Ms Hinsley has expertly used that to help create the feeling of being buried alive.
The unimaginable circumstances force the adults to gather their courage and do what must be done, even when there is no hope,

A fascinating story, portraying the everyday heroics of normal people who face dreadful situations, Fabulous job, Ms Hinsley.
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