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And Then I Woke Up
And Then I Woke Up | Malcolm Devlin
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Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up introduces readers to a world reeling from an unusual plague. Monsters now lurk in the streets, while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, its hard to be certain of anything... Spence is one of the cured living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him to help her find her old crew. But if he cant tell the truth from the lies, how will he know if he has earned the redemption he dreams of? How will he know he hasnt just made things worse?
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NikkiM5
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Quick read and I loved this twist on the zombie genre.

Reggie Oof when you find out it was all in their minds. Yikes. Big yikes. 12mo
NikkiM5 @Reggie I freaking loved that twist! 12mo
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Marmie7
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Another one finished for #scarathlon
A disease that alters your perception of reality. I enjoyed this novella and its unusual take on zombies. Don't expect the usual gore on this one. It's has more of a conversational tone.
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PuddleJumper 🖤🖤 13mo
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 13mo
LiseWorks I love novellas 🤩 13mo
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Andrew65 Brilliant 👏👏👏 13mo
TheSpineView Fantastic! 13mo
aperfectmjk 🤗 13mo
Catsandbooks 🙌🏼🦇🧡 13mo
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Marmie7
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My #BookSpin #DoubleSpin picks. Already got a start on tagged book (not quite what I expected, so far) and Bad Moon Rising. Enjoying both!
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 13mo
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BeeMagical
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Book 46🎧 2.7⭐️

Very cool premise and I loved the narrators voice. But over all it was presented a little “ho-hum”😐

But a very neat twist on “Zombies”.

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AnnRaz
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“Relationships aren‘t scientific, they‘re not mathematical. They‘re chaotic, abstract, irrational.”

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AnnRaz
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“He wasn‘t what I was looking for, he was someone I found on the way. And sometimes that‘s enough. You find someone going the same direction as you are and it‘s all the connection you need when the world has turned as much as it had.”

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Marmie7
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Wow! This swap is freaking amazing! Three awesome books and lots of candy🙌
The mug😱 The Zombies-so cool! Thank you @Reggie Fantastic swap pkg.!! ❤
Thanks for hosting @teebe

Reggie Yay, glad you liked eveything! 2y
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Rissreads
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This is not your normal Zombie novel. To be honest I like my Zombie novels to have a lot more flesh eating zombies in them! 🤣 But it was certainly different, what‘s true and what isn‘t? Everything you think you know, well you are not sure you know it! The infected have a viral disease that makes them believe that they are being attacked by zombies. So they end up killing their friends and family. I wish that the characters had been fleshed ⬇️

Rissreads out more. This novella made me think about our world at the moment with fake news, and conspiracy theories etc. Thanks @Reggie for putting it on my radar! (edited) 2y
Billypar I like your critique that you wish the characters were "fleshed out more" - very appropriate! ? 2y
Rissreads @Billypar lol 🤣 2y
Reggie @Billypar Lolol. @Rissreads This one kinda left me crying in a Panera after I finished reading it. The frustration and sadness of those people that didn‘t know what was what. And would you want to know? It was all a lot. I‘m glad you liked it! 2y
Rissreads @Reggie I really think I would rather be ignorant than know I was responsible for killing my family. 2y
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AnnRaz
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“‘Events happen in more than two dimensions,‘ he says. ‘You have to imagine how they look from different sides, otherwise you don‘t see them at all.‘”

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AnnRaz
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“Maybe we‘ll all have to get used to the uncertainty. Maybe that‘s what frightens me. The way you can get used to anything if you‘ve got nothing better to gravitate toward.”

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AnnRaz
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“When I say this is a love story, I mean this is a story about someone who believed in something impossible and beautiful and dangerous with such strength of character and devotion that they followed the thread of it all the way to the very end, no matter what the world threw at them.
“Whichever way you try to tell it, that sounds like a love story to me.”

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DavidDiamond
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Just when you think nothing fresh can be brought to the Zombie genre, along comes this book.
Interesting examination of what is reality and how we are affected by what we "believe" to be true.
While I didn't exactly love this novella, I did enjoy it's fresh take on a familiar genre.

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Reggie
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I heard about this on the latest episode of Books in the Freezer and I‘m so glad I did. I just finished this and it has to go up on my personal pantheon of great zombie books. I don‘t want to say too much because I think it‘s best to go into this one blind. I think it‘d make a great bookclub pick. If you liked Alma Katsu‘s Wehr Wolf, you‘d love this one. A 🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️Pick!!!

vivastory Sold! 2y
KT1432 I‘ve been looking for a good zombie book! 🤔 2y
vivastory I literally just heard this recommended at the beginning of the recent Reading Glasses podcast 🤣 I think it's a sign 2y
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Reggie @lele1432 I think Mr.Devin has feelings about the world he could only express in a zombie novel. I really hope you like it. 2y
Reggie @Vivastory Yayyy!!!! All signs point to read it! I can‘t wait to hear your thoughts, Scott. 2y
KT1432 This comment makes me even more interested now! How intriguing 2y
Bookzombie You had me at zombie, lol. 2y
Reggie @Bookzombie when the guy said zombie on the podcast I was like that dog whose ears perk up when they hear something humans can‘t. Lol zombie gets me every time. 2y
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khooliha
And Then I Woke Up | Malcolm Devlin
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Finished this yesterday and I enjoyed it! I liked it better when it was thinking about how perception is always individual, less so when it seems to be saying that the cure for a divisive political moment is centrism. It's an interesting take on horror (and sort of zombie) apocalypse, and as a novella it flies by.

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ReadingOver50
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Very interesting and very confusing. People become infected and start seeing the world differently. They believe everyone around them has turned into monsters and they must protect themselves. Meanwhile the uninfected don‘t understand why the infected are suddenly trying to kill them. Each side has their own version of truth. Makes you question the very nature of reality.

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