Driving a logging truck through the Romanian mountains, smuggler Rosi and her crew come across a radio signal that hints at impending doom. As the world goes completely dark, their truck becomes a vessel sailing across a sea of nothingness. But they’re not alone: transmissions trickle in through the radio from similar isolated islands across the country, from amateur radio hobbyists and police cars and customs facilities.
Attempting to rescue survivors and find a way out, the group save more lives, but soon discover that something hungry lurks below, and it’s sending up agents – and transmissions – of its own.
Comparison Titles: Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess, The Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson, Void 1680 AM by Ken Lowery, The Vast of Night (2019 film directed by Andrew Patterson)
Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer of dark speculative fiction and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. She’s the author of Whisperwood, as well as several short horror, fantasy, and science-fiction stories and non-fiction articles published in venues like Nightmare Magazine, Horror Library, the Nosleep podcast, and more.
She lives in the heart of the Transylvanian region of Romania, and lets her country’s culture and unique natural landscapes influence her work. She’s been a translator, a beermaid, a teacher, a copywriter, and a dog trainer, but ultimately realized she wouldn’t be happy until she terrified people for a living. alexwoodroe.com / X: @alexwoodroe / Instagram: @alexwoodroe
My thoughts: This gets quite sinister and dark, but is very clever and enjoyable. As the logging truck becomes a place of refuge against the strange plant like creature trying to make every human part of itself, Rosi becomes a hero in the valiant struggle to make it through the disintegrating world and darkness towards salvation. Her allies are unlikely, and not everyone will survive this strange journey, but if they can parse the messages in the radio transmissions and find the one that will lead them safely to a refuge that the creature can’t reach, perhaps the future has hope.
Rosi’s contraband goods aren’t all useful, no one needs jeans at the end of the world, but the food and booze help them get through the endless night, especially when things seem impossible. She will also realise some things about herself and find a strange happiness on board the truck they christen the Night Ship.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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