Review: Symphanoy of Terror
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
CAUTION SOME POSSIBLE SPOILERS:  The year is 2027 and our fab foursome are older, wiser and perhaps deadlier than ever having survived the last fifteen years. But this is not their story. This one belongs to Isis, Dave Gammon's cousin(see DH Road to California) and daughter of Brett Ulrich Gammon. Isis is a hybrid having been exposed to the red vapor of the Mothers several months before being born. She has accelerated growth and is twice her chronological age, very tall and very beautiful. Max, Charlie and Hemps son is also a hybrid having been exposed to the red vapors moments before his birth and is also growing far faster than a human child. They both share a strong mental connection to the Mothers and can control them although not the Hungerers. That is done through the Mothers. It is also the reason they have managed to keep their new community, Kingman, Kansas, safe behind a wall around the town. They now have running water and electricity albeit for short periods of time. Life is good in Kingman thanks to Hemp who has constructed a great gadget to rid them of any invading horde. But Isis knows that if the human population is to survive there must be more of them, them being Hybrids, to help stem the over 270 million infected still wondering the country. Before her plan can be implemented a bigger problem has arisen, if that is possible, Isis and Max can no longer control the Mothers who are somehow resisting their call. This is not good because while they can sense them something is interfering with their siren call. Believing they must leave to learn why the Mothers are resisting the set out with Trina and Taylor, who have grown into formidable young women, to learn why. If the Mothers can resist their call then the possibility they have evolved is very real. But what they find is far more sinister, more deadly than anything they or anyone else have faced since the outbreak. It is Evil, a complete absence of light and compassion, darkness to its very core. Here Eric Shelman weaves a tale that takes us through a savage and deadly world ironically filled with love, affection, compassion and friendship even in the face of great loss, to one that shows the cause and effect of cruelty, hatred and disregard for the human condition and what it does to the soul. Evil in the name Maestro has arrived; a psychotic misogynist devastating everything in his path. With him are more Hybrids completely under his control and an army of Mothers and Hungerers. Isis and Max knows he must be stopped but are their growing abilities enough to stop them and Maestro? The fate of humanity rides on them as the final battle culminates at the gates of Kingman! Get ready to cry, to rage at the injustice of it all, to feel their pain, their loss and loose yourself in the story and fight alongside our Fab Four, Trina and Taylor, Dave and our beloved Nelson with Isis and Max leading the way. It is a rollercoaster ride of emotion that will drain you until you get to that 'awkward moment when you know this is just the beginning'. Bravo Mr. Shelman on the best story yet of the DH series.