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Fiend - Peter Stenson
Fiend
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There’s more than one kind of monster.   When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations.     But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover,... show more
There’s more than one kind of monster.   When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations.     But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived.    The funny thing is, Chase’s life was over long before the apocalypse got here, his existence already reduced to a stinking basement apartment and a filthy mattress and an endless grind of buying and selling and using. He’s lied and cheated and stolen and broken his parents’ hearts a thousand times. And he threw away his only shot at sobriety a long time ago, when he chose the embrace of the drug over the woman he still loves.    And if your life’s already shattered beyond any normal hopes of redemption…well, maybe the end of the world is an opportunity. Maybe it’s a last chance for Chase to hit restart and become the man he once dreamed of being. Soon he’s fighting to reconnect with his lost love and dreaming of becoming her hero among civilization’s ruins.    But is salvation just another pipe dream?    Propelled by a blistering first-person voice and featuring a powerfully compelling antihero, Fiend is at once a riveting portrait of addiction, a pitch-black love story, and a meditation on hope, redemption, and delusion—not to mention one hell of a zombie novel.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780770436315 (0770436315)
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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I Swallow Books Whole
I Swallow Books Whole rated it
2.0 Fiend
This review was originally posted on One Curvy Blogger2.5 starsI’ve been interested in Fiend since my pal Tika reviewed the book in late 2014 over on her blog fANGIRL Confessions. I finally picked up a copy on my last adventure to Barns and Noble and I was lucky enough to get it on sale! While I did...
The Surly Dragon
The Surly Dragon rated it
5.0 Review - Fiend by Peter Stenson
This novel explores not only the scary setting of a post-apocalyptic zombie horror scene, where humans are devouring humans, but the horror that drug users and addicts face as they turn themselves into zombies- zombies only concerned with getting the next score, no matter the financial or personal c...
The Book Nut
The Book Nut rated it
3.5 Adult Review: Fiend by Peter Stenson
http://booklovingnut.blogspot.com/2014/06/review-fiend-by-peter-stenson.html
makinghismark
makinghismark rated it
4.0 Fiend Review
Yes, it's yet another apocalyptic zombie novel, but this time the only survivors are those people who were high on meth at the time, and the only way to avoid catching zombie fever is to stay high on meth. A ragtag group of addicts must locate a cooker, and supplies in order to survive. Zombies and ...
Folding Paper & Spilling Ink
Folding Paper & Spilling Ink rated it
3.5 Fiend: Or the world's scariest anti-drug PSA...with zombies!
I think I was expecting this book to be more like meth addicts versus zombies, and I suppose it is to a degree. The zombies are creepy as hell, and you get many of the usual zombie fic tropes. The story, as a whole however, is much more about addicts versus themselves, addiction, and other addicts. ...
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