Survivor Song Pdf is a Horror Science Fiction Mystery Thriller novel By Paul Tremblay. A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror. Paul Tremblay once again demonstrates his mastery in this chilling and all-too-plausible novel that will leave readers racing through the pages . . . and shake them to their core.
Survivor Song Book Summary
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government’s emergency protocols are faltering.
Dr. Ramola “Rams” Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie’s husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an infected neighbor—and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie’s only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child. Natalie’s fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares—terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink.
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About Paul Tremblay Author Of Survivor Song Pdf Book
Paul Tremblay Who wrote Survivor Song Pdf is the author of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Award winning THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD, winner of the British Fantasy Award DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL’S ROCK, and Bram Stoker Award/Massachusetts Book Award winning A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS. A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS is in development with Focus Features. He’s also the author of the novels The Little Sleep, No Sleep till Wonderland, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye, and Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly (co-written with Stephen Graham Jones).
His newest book is the short story collection GROWING THINGS AND OTHER STORIES. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and numerous “year’s best” anthologies. He is the co-editor of four anthologies including Creatures: Thirty Years of Monster Stories (with John Langan). Paul is on the board of directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, has a master’s degree in Mathematics, and has no uvula. You can find him online at www.paultremblay.net. twitter: @paulgtremblay. He is represented by Stephen Barbara, InkWell Management.
Survivor Song pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : William Morrow (July 7, 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062679163
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062679161
- Item Weight : 1.07 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #94,097 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #230 in Medical Thrillers (Books)
- #349 in Ghost Thrillers
- #2,928 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.1 out of 5 stars 1,532 ratings
Survivor Song Book Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Survivor Song–Another Hit for Paul Tremblay.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2022
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Paul Tremblay’s “Survivor Song” begins with a shocking and equally heart-rending prelude (as he describes it) in a small Massachusetts town, in a house where the blinds have been completely drawn, the lights kept off, and cover taken inside. Inside, a pregnant Natalie and her husband Paul remain in lockdown mode. Something is happening across the country, something Natalie and others identify as a zombie-apocalypse. Although throughout the book, Tremblay clarifies through his characters that the antagonists are not zombies. They are those who have been infected by a deadly super strain of rabies, and the current time may not be the impending apocalypse. The virus began with animals, and then transferred to humans with equal results: high fever, blinding mania, murderous rage, and death within hours. Paul is less convinced and therefore less cautious than the expectant Natalie. Within their confines, they lightheartedly joke about the situation, until the unthinkable happens. After returning from a painstakingly difficult journey to the store, Paul is left to defend himself and his wife from an infected intruder. The man, in his rage, kills Paul. Natalie is left to defend herself, but not before the man bites her.
The prelude draws the reader in from the beginning, creating a solid anchoring through a whirlwind of a ride. “Survivor Song” will go down as another favorite by Tremblay. The book is fast-paced and filled with gripping horror and strange circumstances that once again, provoke the reader to think. It is a page-turner the reader does not put down.
Natalie escapes the terror that has taken over her home and asks the only person she knows who can possibly help her, her college friend, Ramola, a British pediatrician who moved to America to follow her dream of being a doctor. Through Ramola, the other main character, the reader has already learned the extent of the medical crises affecting hospitals and treatment plans as a result of the strange virus. She is about to report for round-the-clock work at the hospital when suddenly enlisted by her best friend for help, a pregnant friend who may be infected.
Ramola moves fast getting Natalie to the hospital, despite traffic jams and an overcrowded hospital where admittance is based upon whether or not one is infected. Natalie does not run a fever—not yet. Once inside, Natalie is administered a vaccine, all that can be done now is wait and pray. Soon, it is learned that Natalie needs an immediate C-section out of caution for the baby. But as the attending physician fails to arrive, pandemonium breaks out at the hospital. Ramola and Natalie must get to a clinic across town, but as they try, Tremblay presents the reader with gruesome, horrifying scenes he is best at, those that are both weird and scary.
After escaping the hospital, the two set forth on a journey to help a weakening Natalie. For her, time is running short. She records messages on a computer file to be read in the future by her child, a daughter she claims. After a mishap along the way, they meet up with Josh and Luis, two adolescent boys whose lives are defined by the movies that made them die-hard fans. They are self-proclaimed zombie hunters with past secrets Ramola hears hints of but is afraid to ask. Their attempts to get Natalie and Ramola to the clinic are stalled by a run in with more antagonists, conspiracy theorists who claim the government purposely exposed its inhabitants to the virus. They are scouting door-to-door, killing healthy animals and rabid humans in attempts to eradicate. They are the next cause of mayhem in the book, providing scenes of both horror and unforgettable shock.
But something has happened to Josh in this time. Now, time is just as vital for him as it is for Natalie. In the book’s Interlude, Josh and Luis retreat to the woods and stun the reader as their stories are more clearly revealed. The long day’s journey finally leads Natalie and Ramola to an abandoned farmhouse. Now, there is no longer time. Natalie needs a C-section, and Ramola must perform it. She reluctantly agreed to adopt Natalie’s baby in the event of her death, a prospect that appears more and more inevitable. The final scene punches right in the gut as Ramola does what she has to, stopping the reader’s breath until the last words.
The book ends with a Postlude, one that surprises, as well as confirms Paul Tremblay’s proficiency in both horror and storytelling. “Survivor Song” is another great book by Tremblay and will sit well alongside “A Head Full of Ghosts,” “Disappearance at Devil’s Rock,” and “Cabin at the End of the World.”
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4.0 out of 5 stars Timely and thrilling
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2020
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This isn’t your run of the mill horror novel. The “zombies,” such as they are, are really just people infected with a particularly aggressive form of the rabies virus. The scares have little to do with the monsters lurking under the bed, little to do with violence and gore (though there certainly is a bit of that in the novel), and absolutely nothing to do with the literary equivalent of jump scares. Rather, the scares in this story are more of the intellectual variety. They have to do with the fragility of societal structures and human behavior when pushed beyond the edge of acceptable experience.
It’s also “unputdownable,” if I may be forgiven for using a made-up word. There are just a couple passages that seem to drag on forever despite only being a few pages in length–by far the worst being an exchange of text messages near the beginning of the novel written in a headache-inducing facsimile of “text speak” and rendered in shaded text boxes that strain the eyes–but the rest of the novel moves at a faster pace than I’ve read in quite a while. Action scenes and character-driven scenes exist in perfect balance to drive the plot forward and keep the reader turning the pages, desperate to see how things will turn out.
All of this leads to a conclusion that is far more resonant than that of the average horror novel. Even though the climax is rendered in staccato flashes of disjointed sentences and paragraphs separated by large blocks of white space, a technique that would be annoying in a less capable author’s hands, the reader will find the ending both emotionally impactful and intellectually satisfying. Following such a climax, the afterword doesn’t really seem to do much, but it does provide a punctuation mark for the story.
It would be easy to give this book a five star rating, except there are several moments in which the author seems to lose control of the narrative in order to inject a political commentary. On some level, the whole book is political, and fair enough; especially since this book came out during a time of pandemic, many of the author’s points seem both timely and valid. However, when a fairly close third-person narration is suddenly interrupted simply to make a political point that has nothing whatever to do with what the characters in the scene might be thinking about (or worse, that is far beyond even the periphery of their knowledge), it takes several pages for the narrative to regain its momentum. It seems to be a defining pathology of the 21st Century that people can’t resist the temptation to inject their personal politics into every communication, but these paragraphs, though thankfully few in number, represent a tumor within what would otherwise be a near-perfect novel.
Fortunately, the book’s flaws, though their effects spread farther than the particular paragraphs in which they’re contained, don’t detract too much from a book that I’m very pleased to have purchased and read. If you’re a Tremblay fan, you won’t be disappointed, and if you’re a new reader, this is a good place to start. It’s a good book for any time, but readers in 2020 will find it particularly timely.
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