Reviewed by Elizabetta
TITLE: Indigo Footsteps, Spatters of Red
AUTHOR: J. Fally
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 56 pages
BLURB:
At first glance, Carter Cross and Josh Lessard seem like an ordinary couple. They make love and fight, know each other’s strengths and weaknesses, deal with the “in-laws,” and share their life and home. They even work together. One day, they’ll probably die together – possibly a lot sooner than they’d prefer, given their profession as members of a paramilitary special unit formed to thwart a gory apocalypse. While Carter and Josh are used to cheating death on a daily basis, this time the odds are stacked against them. Between a deadly mission to complete and Josh’s grandma coming for a visit, it’ll take a miracle to get them out as horror invades not only a major city but also their home.
REVIEW:
I just love a well-chosen title (so hard to do, making a title) that snags your interest, that winds all the salient points of a story up in just a few words. (With last year’s Bone Rider, I’d be willing to christen this author the title whisperer.)
This was so much fun… a bit of a slow start as we get to know Carter and Josh and their own special blend of affectionate brash and dash. They live together in the deep woods of Louisiana— it unfolds that Josh is Cajun and from a very colorful, zany family who play an important part in the plot— and the guys are redecorating. Josh’s grand-mère is coming to visit and he wants to paint the walls blue… Indigo, dammit.
“What’s with the blue paint?”
“Indigo,” Josh yelled. “It’s fucking indigo. It’s a perfectly fucking legitimate color. A fucking rainbow color. It’s fucking pretty.”
Ah, yeah, a guy who knows his paint chips from his flashbang grenades.
It doesn’t take long for the action to pick up. In their downtime: home remodeling and lots of hot aggressive sex. But at work, Josh and Carter are part of a special ops team, trained to fight the good fight against the monster horde. Yes, this apocalypse is of the monster zombie type, but with a twist. The virus makes blood suckers, too (though we don’t get to see much of that). So, instead of Buffy the Vampire Slayer we have buffed-up zampie slayers. And it takes a special brand of chutzpah and skill set to battle the slavering mob, to keep the invasion from spreading.
Who you gonna call?
They are fearless, they’re in love, they’re in a lot of danger. They are up there with the cool-cat lovers I love to read about. They have the feelz but know how to keep it real.
I’ve already said too much. This is just a little tidbit, a teaser, really, and I truly hope there is more to come. This could be the start of a very interesting series starring this special ops slayers unit.
Hot guys to the rescue! Read it, but beware the blood spatters and gore. Clean-up on aisle two.
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