BelEdit Book Reviews
Like all the best zombie novels, One Yellow Eye is not really about zombies; it’s about people. About love and fear and pain and grief and hope and despair and the effort it can take to wake up each day and put one foot in front of the other to just keep going, when your world is falling apart.
It’s what I love about GOOD zombie novels. They’re not about gun porn and fighting factions and power struggles, but about personal struggles.
Kesta is a biomedical researcher trying to find a cure for a virus that caused a zombie apocalypse in London, which was eventually contained after a large number of the population died. She is now one of the few people left in London; the setting may well feel familiar to readers, in London or other cities, as we’ve all lived through the pandemic. Now, all the zombies have been eliminated but people are still scared, making their way carefully through mostly empty streets, wary of each other and keeping their distance.
As well they might, for not all zombies are gone. Unbeknownst to anyone, one of them is still – well, not alive exactly, but moving – in Kesta’s spare bedroom, handcuffed to the radiator. It’s her beloved husband, Tim, and she is desperate to find the cure to the virus in the hope of curing him.
One Yellow Eye will obviously appeal to fans of the genre, but it’s an excellent speculative thriller in its own right. It’s also funny, moving, gripping and well written.
Recommended.
My thanks to the publisher, author and Netgalley for providing an ARC. All my reviews are 100% honest and unbiased, regardless of how I acquire the book.
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