Spore Paperback – Import, 10 November 2017

This is a very fun to read book that gives a good perspective. It was daunting from time to time to see how once the people move on from their loved ones, and if those loved ones were to make an appearance, this might not be the smoothest return for them. I really enjoyed this book and the other readers emphasized the good parts of it as well.The only reason I'm gave 1 less star is because I found too much real life in it, and this is completely a personal preference. I prefer books that have maybe more of a fantasy-like world around what's going on, but this was a fantasy situation in the middle of real world-a country side nevertheless- which takes away from the magic IMO.

A friend actually pointed me to this book. Zombies are not my usual fare, but I loved this. It's a cross-genre novel (horror, thriller, mystery, sci-fi) that will grab you from the start and keep you reading to the last page. This was definitely one of those books that kept me awake (because I couldn't put it down). It starts with naked people appearing in a field and no one knows where they're coming from. Then we learn many of them are deceased. So all the while the characters are trying to figure out how the dead are coming back to life, there are several sub-plots at work. I don't want to list them because I hate spoilers. It all comes together beautifully at the end. As a-matter-of-fact, this book was so fun, I would actually read it again, and there are few books I'll do that with. This is definitely a must read!

reader for this book, gosh, a year or more ago...Not sure why Tambo let me read it but I am glad she did. So I'm biased. But I really think this book deserves the rating I gave it.)(Okay, a second disclaimer. I am rarely a horror reader or viewer because I will often find myself yelling "Get out of the house!" or "Just Drive away!" and shaking my fist at the book or movie. And I am really tired of zombies...so my biases balance out.)(BTW I'm not going to summarize the plot. There's plenty of that info out already)ENOUGH OF THAT!At first glance this looks like a zombie book, you know dead coming back to life. But that isn't it at all. The people who are coming back to life are coming back not as mindless monsters, but as people with all of the energy, fear, emotions, and drives they had before. It's just that they were dead for months or years or decades. But what happens when they come back to life? How do they reintegrate? Do they have any legal status?This is a thriller with tons of suspense, excitement, and horror, but after finishing it--or stopping for the night--it asks some really interesting questions about what it means to be a person, and what would happen to people, and how others would react. I would love to spend more time as a reader in this world at some point in the future. In short this is a really cool world built around an amazing and original event.But that's not all, not by a long shot. This book is most certainly not just a cool idea. The characters, Sean and Mare and Mindy especially, are real people with real problems, real focus, real stress, and drives. They have urgency and growth and just wonderfully created. I feel their excitement and pain and laugh at their humor and worry about them. This is also the best novel capturing people living in poverty, worrying about food budgets and the next check, that I've read in a long time.The pacing is strong, and the book just, just moves. On my reread I was upset that they were so quick to change my oil because I was completely absorbed. And this is when I knew what was going to happen!Just because there are great characters and interesting ideas, it doesn't mean this is literary fiction where people just talk. No, there's some scary {expletive} stuff going on here. Really terrifying {expletive.}So if you want to read a scary and at times vicious book with a great idea and wonderful characters, that is at times hilarious and thought-provoking this is a book for you.If you want a book that's funny and thought provoking with well-rounded characters that have lots of agency, but you want a lot of tension, twists and turns and some scares. This is also book for you.However, if you want a boring book about people getting eaten by zombies this isn't the book for you. Correction, you should read this book ALSO!

It's been a long time since I read into the small hours of the morning. Last night, I did exactly that. I had started this book a week or so ago, but life interfered and I had to set it aside until yesterday evening. When I found time to do some reading again, Jones caught me up in her story, and I just could not wait to find out what was going to happen. This is not your typical horror book. Yes, there were some gruesome moments, and yes, I hurried through a description or two because I'm not a horror fan and I have an overactive imagination. But the story pulled me along, and after a while, I forgot to be squeamish and read for the sheer delight in the language and action. A big thumbs up on this one.

This book was a selection from my book club. At first, I didn't know what to think as I'm not really a horror reader, however, I would classify this as more SF/Suspense.There were some parts that were very graphic. Also, this author can describe laundry in a way that really grossed me out.The concept was interesting. The plot was disturbing, but Mindy's subplot was my favorite part.On a side note, I don't want to lower my rating over cosmetic issues, but the formatting of the Kindle edition was not so great. There were no gaps between the sections inside chapters and I found out later that there are really cool pictures in the print edition that didn't make it to Kindle. The can be found on the author's website: http://www.tamara-jones.net/novels/spore/the-chapter-graphics/