In February I read 13 books - which seems to be my lucky number, at least in terms of books read per month anyway. Of those I rated just three books 5 stars which is a little low; I actually had more 2 star reads for the month which kinda sucks.
Enough with the negative, on to the positive; horror once again dominated my best reads list with Carnivorous Lunar Activities by Max Booth III and Nights of the Living Dead anthology edited by Jonathan Maberry and Geaorge A. Romero being standouts but there can only be one pick of the month and that goes to the excellent Voices in the Snow by Darcy Coates.
From my review:
Echoing elements of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, Darcy Coates succeeds in scaring the crap out of the reader; creatures hiding in the shadowy corners of dark rooms conjure vivid imagery of Stephen King's Gerald's Game, and an ever present threat of danger, combined with a confined sense of claustrophobia make for one hell of a read.
From the blurb:
Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children’s toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can’t explain. And then…nothing.
When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger’s gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there’s nothing she can do but wait.
At least the stranger seems kind…but Clare doesn’t know if she can trust him. He promised they were alone here, but she sees and hears things that convince her something else is creeping about the surrounding woods, watching. Waiting. Between the claustrophobic storm and the inescapable sense of being hunted, Clare is on edge…and increasingly certain of one thing:
Her car crash wasn't an accident. Something is waiting for her to step outside the fragile safety of the house... something monstrous, something unfeeling.
Something desperately hungry.
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