Spooky Book of the Day: October 23

Posted by Dana on 10.23.2010 at 10:23 pm

Today’s pick just came out at the end of August and is getting great reviews for being a “literary/horror mashup that is unsettlingly good.”—USA Today

THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS by Alden Bell

From the publisher:

Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.

For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks.

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