Everything about this universe is fresh and exciting because the lens of the narrators through which we view the world is so new.įelker-Martin gives everyone a voice and an experience. All stereotypes based on sexuality and gender are smashed into oblivion and reformed in order to smash them again. The reader navigates a twisted new reality through varying perspectives following different main characters and their trusted allies.īecause of the nature of the plague, this story imagines new gender roles and sexual dynamics. Adhering to post-apocalyptic blueprints, the reading experience is enjoyed through multiple POVs. Humans not infected with the plague have splintered into various groups based on differing philosophies of survival. Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin is a post-apocalyptic horror novel telling a new tale, from a new voice, in a familiar setting, for a spot on the shelf next to the classics.įelker-Martin devises a plague that attacks humans with high levels of testosterone leaving the host in a ravaged physical state reduced down to basic, primal instincts: Sex, Eat, Kill, Repeat. Very important markers of the genre identifiably unique and remarkably special but very much told by the same voice. The ambiguous but devastating world event causes humanity to unravel in Cormac McCarty’s The Road. The environmental and human destruction left after nuclear warfare in Swan Song by Robert McCammon. The viral outbreak of Captain Trips in Stephen King’s, The Stand. Think back on popular, post-apocalyptic horror novels.

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