Through the Plaguelands

by Torrence Sassetti

What starts out as a series of mysterious disappearances and random animal attacks quickly leads to something more sinister. Robert’s understanding of his world changes when he encounters his first zombies during the initial outbreak, which leads to the city being overrun with the undead. During the outbreak, Robert is injected, by the woman responsible for the outbreak with a mysterious serum, which gives him mysterious supernatural abilities.

As the infection progresses Robert finds the town further twisted by the illness known as the Plague and to make matters worse, a strong new breed of Plague creatures have emerged known as the Alphas, powerful infected retain their intelligence and gained supernatural abilities. They claim territories in the city, (Industrial Complex, Fireland, Frostland, and Electric Fields) where they rule supreme. Robert must fight the four Alphas as well as Cortez before the city’s final sterilization against the Plague.

318 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2014

Reviews

[Jennie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I feel bad giving it only 2 stars, but this is a talented writer who distracted me with entirely too many grammatical errors. There are some style issues which made me want to skip pages. (And, to be honest, at times I did.) I think the story is way better than 2 stars, but the dialog was presented in a weird way which caused a little confusion, it was awkward when perspective was shifted and it really is a bunch of little things that got to be too much.

In short, good story ruined by a lot of style issues.

I still highly recommend the brief YouTube narration.

[Alicia Hawkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great story, but written with awful grammar and spelling that made me almost not want to continue reading it. I'm not kidding; they're EVERYWHERE, and painfully obvious.

The story is great and the author has a very unique style. You just have to be able to tolerate terribly written grammar to see it. I have to wonder why this book wasn't edited or spell-checked before publishing. Still worth a read, though.

As someone else said, there is a brief YouTube narration (look up "MrCreepyPasta" and "Plague Runners," or something similar to that. It's been a while, so I forget the exact name.) It's a fantastic short excerpt from the same setting as this book, and really shows off how brilliant the author's style is, without all the atrocious grammatical errors and stunted dialogue. As a matter of fact, it was that narration which made me want to get the book in the first place. Worth the time to find, for sure.