Thank you to
Rockstar Book Tours for giving me the opportunity to start my summer off right with a newly released dystopian.
Title: THE
LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS
Author: Joe M. Solomon
Pub. Date: June 11, 2019
Publisher: NES Publishing
Formats: Paperback,
eBook
Pages: 538
SUMMARY: March Madness has begun and college basketball
playoffs are heating up, not that Robert Walker—a graduate student from
Texas—particularly cares. He has decided to skip classes for the day, sleep in,
and get some rest. Unfortunately, a brief spat on the phone with his fiancée
makes that impossible. Hoping to take his mind off of it, he scans through TV
channels in search of entertainment and instead finds one news report after
another that warns of violence erupting in the streets.
People are randomly and savagely attacking one
another all along the East Coast from Maine to Florida. Some speculate it may
be related to strange lights that have appeared in the sky above the outbreaks.
Before any solid conclusions can be drawn, however, the brutality spreads,
sweeping across the country until it hits Houston, then proceeds on to the West
Coast. Robert, a handful of classmates, and a few others manage to survive the
first wave and find themselves in the midst of civilization’s blackest hour, surrounded
by pandemonium, bloodshed, and masses of people who have been stripped of their
humanity. Hours later, as those strange lights continue to dominate the sky,
the vicious horde undergoes a new transformation.
There is no escaping the horror. Unable to reach
his fiancée by phone, Robert sets out to find her, joined by a small ensemble
of fellow survivors. The thirty-five miles they must cover are fraught with
danger, and their terror grows with each step they take as they witness the
genesis of a new Earth. Can they find a way to stop it? Will they even survive
it?
REVIEW: While reading this, it felt like I was reading a Stephen King novel. The formatting and the different character perspectives throughout that pieced the whole story together is amazing. I really enjoyed this book. I have been looking for a new dystopian, apocalyptic horror to get into for a while now and I definitely have to pick up the author's first book.
I did have some cons. I wish the author settled on one name for the people who turned. He kept going back and forth between crazies and lunatic. Also, there was a lot of sexism, racism, and bigotry throughout the book that made me cringe most of the time. The fight scenes were generic and sometimes unrealistic and outright confusing.
About Joe: (No
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Joe Solomon earned
both master’s and doctoral degrees from Rice University and is a writer, a
director, an independent filmmaker, and a composer. His first novel—a supernatural thriller
entitled The Darkness: Giger, Texas—reached #2 on Amazon's Best Seller list and
is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. His next novel—The Light:
Houston, Texas—will release June 11, 2019. He has also completed a collection
of short stories that arose from the macabre and will release next year.
An award-winning
screenwriter, Joe has completed seventeen screenplays and nine stage plays. He
has also been very active in the independent film industry, directing four
short films, one feature film (post production), and six music videos. His
screenplays have won Best Screenplay at the Mediterranean Film Festival
(Cannes, France), been Official Selections at the Beverly Hills Film Festival,
been a Finalist in the American Movie Awards, won the Final Draft Screenwriters
Award, won the Screenwriting Showcase Award, reached the Second Round in The
Sundance Feature Film Program, and been a Finalist in the Scriptapalooza
Screenwriting Competition. His music videos have won Best Music Video at the
Honolulu Film Awards, the Silver Remi Award for Creative Excellence at the WorldFest
Houston International Film Festival, won the Maple Leaf Award at the Canada
International Film Festival, been an Official Selection of the International
Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema—Milan, been an Official Selection of the
Switzerland International Film Festival, won Best Director—Music Video in the
Honolulu Film Awards, and been a Finalist in the American Movie Awards. They
have also been Official Selections of many additional international film
festivals.
Giveaway Details:
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