Review: Great little novelette, wish there was more...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2012
This is a punchy little book that you'll easily devourer in a single afternoons reading. The premise seems straightforward - a virus turns pretty much the entire world's population into gibbering, twitching cannibals, but as Clines presents each chapter it becomes clear something sinister is afoot.Cleverly, each chapter links a character(s) from the previous one and while that might sound twee, Cline makes it work really well. So we get this overlay of stories that are sequentially related during the course of a couple of days and geographically focused on the now quiet streets of LA.I purchased 'The Junkie Quatrain' on the back of Clines' 'Ex-Heroes', which is of a similar theme. And I was not disappointed (as I was not disappointed with another Cline novel, '14').Well, to be fair I was disappointed a little bit.I'd have liked 'The Junkie Quatrain' to be longer! There is enough meat on the bones of the plot - and the characters - to take the story deeper and show us more of the world post-Baugh Contagion.This is horror story genre meets high-tech medical thriller and if either of those float your boat, I recommend 'The Junkie Quatrain'.