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Soulless by Christopher Golden
By Allie Costa
The dead travel fast. Times Square, New York City: The first ever mass séance is broadcasting live on the Sunrise morning show. If it works, all the spirits of the departed on the other side will have a brief window -- just a few minutes -- to send a final message to their grieving loved ones.
Clasping hands in an impenetrable grip, three mediums call to their spirit guides as the audience looks on in breathless anticipation. Then the mediums slump over, slack-jawed -- catatonic. And in cemeteries surrounding Manhattan, fragments of old corpses dig themselves out of the ground . . .
The spirits have returned. The dead are walking. They will seek out those who loved them in life, those they left behind . . . but they are savage and they are hungry. They are no longer your mother or father, your brother or sister, your best friend or lover. They are soulless.
The horror spreads quickly, droves of the ravenous dead seeking out those they left behind - shredding flesh from bone, feeding. But a disparate group of unlikely heroes -- two headstrong college rivals, a troubled gang member, a teenage pop star and her bodyguard -- is making its way to the center of the nightmare, fighting to protect their loved ones, fighting for their lives, and fighting to end the madness.
Are you ready to join the fight of your life?
If you like zombie movies or supernatural stories, you will LOVE Soulless. It's so action-packed that I've taken to calling it a movie bound in a book. Soulless kept me guessing. It had a lot of twists and turns. I love its exploration of family ties, and the questions it raised: Do we want to see our loved ones again after they pass away? If they return as zombies, unlike their living selves, would they be better left to rest in peace? And the book's climax - wow.
I highly recommend this book. I really enjoyed it, and I hope you will too. I have included it on my list of the Best Books of 2008.
Trust me; you'll devour this book in one sitting.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.christophergolden.com/soulless/