If you ever find yourself just too damn happy, pick up this book. Yeah, it’s dark, depressing, and dank, but damn, it’s a good read. An epidemic is killing adults, a disease that literally comes from the mouths of children and teens. When the young ones talk in the presence of adults, the older ones shrivel and squirm and scream, and eventually die. Our hero, Sam, has a daughter who is going through her can’t-stand-my-parents phase, which only exacerbates the problem. But that’s only part of the story, and Marcus deftly builds a whole community of underground tunnels, huts in the forests and bad guys in such a way that the you are easily and gladly drawn into the darkness.
“The Flame Alphabet”
If you ever find yourself just too damn happy, pick up this book. Yeah, it’s dark, depressing, and dank, but damn, it’s a good read. An epidemic is killing adults, a disease that literally comes from the mouths of children and teens. When the young ones talk in the presence of adults, the older ones shrivel and squirm and scream, and eventually die. Our hero, Sam, has a daughter who is going through her can’t-stand-my-parents phase, which only exacerbates the problem. But that’s only part of the story, and Marcus deftly builds a whole community of underground tunnels, huts in the forests and bad guys in such a way that the you are easily and gladly drawn into the darkness.
