Yes, it’s shameless of me, but I’m about to plug a plug – which shouldn’t be technically possible, yet is.

Anton Cancre has reviewed Dead America on www.horrornews.net, a great site dedicated to all new things horror.  While he did give me a good review (way to go Anton!) I’m mentioning it here more for the view of Dead America than the review.

Anton wrote:

“It’s a world with infinite promise constantly undercut by ignorance and fear.  Yet hope shines in shit-caked corners and half-rotten eyes, in the tiny motions of outstretched hands.  It’s all just another day in America.”

Yes!  That’s exactly it!  Hope does shine in shit-caked corners – something that encapsulates the world of Dead America so much more than ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ does – and the novel is really ‘just another day in America’.  Not the ‘real’ America – hold the hate mail – but a romanticised America, a dirty, dark America viewed through Anton’s ‘half-rotten eyes’.

Glad you enjoyed it, Anton.  Long live Dead America!

If you want, you can check out the review here (go to Book Reviews and then follow the link from the side bar on the right for Dead America) or head along and see what else is on offer at HorrorNews.

From www.horrornews.net