Review: Excellent!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
Nine Meals is an edge-of-your-seat post apocalyptic tale of survival, revenge and hope.Author Mike Kilroy brings us an original take on the apocalyptic genre. In the beginning we meet the colorful character Billy ‘Shep’ Shepard. After becoming acclimated to the world Shep lives in, life after the Ejection, we begin to see danger lurking. When three strangers approach Shep’s house we are introduced to his cunning and abilities as he rescues Antigone ‘Tig’ from her captors. Tig is a teenager who brings out the best in Shep. Shep gets to know Tig and learns that she believes her brother lives at Halcyon. Halcyon is a rumored place in Colorado where life is beautiful and plentiful. Shep doesn’t believe in this place at first but eventually circumstances lead him to make the journey to Halcyon with Tig. Along the way they face much adversity including the husband of the woman whom Shep had murdered to save Tig. The suspense builds as we wonder if Shep and Tig will make it to Halcyon.Kilroy excels in his genre with a fresh approach and an addictive writing style. This is definitely one of those books that will leave you burning the midnight oil. It has death, destruction, hunger, love, revenge and hope. The characters are large and colorful, the scenery is vivid and the dialogue natural and gripping. I highly recommend it!