Everyone knows it’s a bad idea and it happens anyway but if it doesn’t happen, the whole movie doesn’t really happen? That’s pretty much this book.

Like the scary movie when the main character is like “we should split up and keep going into the deep dark words instead of turning back”. Unfortunately… I was really let down! You know when you’re watching a bad movie and everyone is just making bad decisions left and right and you’re sitting there thinking of COURSE you’re going to do that. So this was one of my top anticipated books of 2018! I really loved Erin Bowman’s Vengeance Road and Retribution Rails so I was psyched to find out she was coming out with a sci fi! As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried-and some monsters are only too ready to awaken. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project-including its members’ dead bodies. Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy.Īfter receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, General, Action & Adventure, Survival Stories, Thrillers & Suspense They all developed over the course of the book, some in bad ways & some in worse ways.Published by HarperCollins on July 24, 2018 All the characters were written amazingly & I loved and hated them all a little bit. You never know who to trust, who has secrets, who is just doing something for their own gain & who is hiding something that could change everything! This is multi POV & in every POV you end up second guessing another character who you thought you trusted. These characters were just all over the place. The plot was unpredictable, action packed & intense in the best ways possible! This book did not slow down from start to finish! And it worked perfectly that way. The writing just drags you so far into this story that it will feel real. Like if I heard a noise in the real world when I was deep in this book I would nearly shit myself.

You could feel it & you could see it playing out, it was just amazingly written! I don’t read horror too often & this is Sci-Fi Horror and it definitely came through. The atmosphere of this book was just outstanding. It flowed really well & there was never any confusion.

There was the perfect amount of world building, character development, action, creepiness, sarcasm & second guessing. This book was SO intense, SO gripping, SO interesting and just my god! I could not put this book down! The writing was awesome.

Contagion by erin bowman