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Pete and his high school friends are looking for a place to party. One of he girls in the group, Sue, suggests that they use her grandpa's newly built bomb shelter. She knows the code to get in. Once inside, a thunderous noise from the outside shakes the shelter. As Pete looks out of the hatch to see what the commotion is, mushroom clouds fill the horizon and the nightmare begins.

Sparrow Rock is an emotionally-charged entertaining read. It's strength is its realistic and flawed characters that are developed and revealed throughout the story. As the danger ratchets up, Kenyon does a nice job taking us along for the ride. You feel like you're in the bomb shelter with the group trying to figure out what to do next. You can almost taste the metallic ash of the fallout, smell the foul odors and feel the tension in the air. The ending wasn't my favorite and it's the only thing that keeps the story from being a full five stars. But, Kenyon does such a wonderful job painting the story and characters with such vibrant colors, you realize that Sparrow Rock is more about the journey and not the destination. 4 1/2 stars. ( )

[b:Sparrow Rock|7740386|Sparrow Rock|Nate Kenyon|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1270156573s/7740386.jpg|10547538] by [a:Nate Kenyon|380770|Nate Kenyon|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1266791169p2/380770.jpg] is an outstanding end-of-the world novel. Following a nuclear holocaust, a group of teenagers find themselves (fortunately) in a fallout shelter, and struggle to survive. However, things aren't quite what they seem, and the situation turns from bad to worse.I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end, and particularly enjoyed all the twists and turns as the story progressed. While reading this book outdoors, right at a critical moment in the story, a bug chose to fly down the back of my shirt. I about soiled my shorts. Once you read this book you'll understand my reaction.Thanks go to Nate for an electronic copy of this wonderful book. I'll definitely be purchasing more of his books. ( )

Sparrow Rock is truly a horrific tale. It's a very different, inventively written apocalyptic story filled with psychological thrills and scenes so disgusting your skin will crawl.

A group of teens looking for a place to smoke pot head down into a bomb shelter. An all out nuclear strike hits while the teens are getting high and they just might be the only people who survived. Things aren't as straight-forward as they seem and after a couple weird but completely convincing twists in the story, it looks like the group may have been better off dying with the rest of humanity. This is definitely not a book you want to read if you have an extreme bug phobia.

Beyond the totally gross chills, Sparrow Rock takes a long look at friendship and what that means between teenagers. It's scary and sad while feeling surprisingly real. It takes the essence of zombies, mixes it with bugs and conspiracy theories, throws in some mental illness, kills just about everyone on the planet and right when you think you've seen everything, it leaves you with a revelation that you could have never even considered possible. ( )

This was pretty awesome. I honestly didn't expect it. I received this as a free e-book to review and I couldn't stop reading it. The story was well done, intelligent, thoughtful, horrifying, disgusting...everything you would want in a great horror story. I totally recommend it if you're a fan of good horror. ( )