The Strain (Dominion of Ash, book 0.5)

By Frost Kay

Blurb: 
The end of the world was uglier than she expected. 

Janice Anderson warned those who would listen that their bio weaponry was too unpredictable. No one had absolute control over a virus. If they thought they did, well... they were stupid.

Plans failed, colleagues died, and those that survived mutated into something other. No one knew what was worse, the virus or the monsters it created.

When the virus spread, she had only one choice to protect those she loved: turn to the people she hated with every fiber of her being for help.

Behind enemy lines, she expected back stabbing, but never guessed she'd be the one betraying those she cared about.

Life was never simple. Neither was the end of the world.

Review: 
This book is classed as a novella for Frost's series Dominion of Ash. The Dominion of Ash only has one book out at the moment called The Tainted (I have already reviewed), but I know the second one is due out later this year which I'm looking forward to reading and reviewing.

This novella is extremely short and I wish it was longer, it is only 3 chapters long. It is based when the disease has just started in the local village. You discover how it started and why it started. You also discover how it spread and how it developed so that the animals were deformed and carrying the disease.

The novella follows one family; a mother, a son, and his daughter. The mother could see that this disease and event was going to happen but no one was listening to what she was saying, but when it happened everyone started believing her, even though she had gave up on hope of getting away from the village to see if someone would help her until her son come along.

The novella follows their journey from the house to the military base. There isn't much to really say about the relationships and characters within this book because it really was quite short that I couldn't have a true opinion on them. I did love though that when his mother seen her grandchild a switched clicked in her brain, which was quite sweet and she was still really protective over her son even though he had his own life now.

Within this novella there is a lot of action and adventure considering the size. It was super fast paced. I really would recommend reading this book no matter what you have read of Frost's even if it is her first work you try as it is really good and I could definitely compare it to her other series and say that it's not any worse it's just as good, which I really love. I find that authors who have several series, the actual series become distant and not as good as the first ones.

So I'd definitely recommend this book if you love family love, twists and a lot of action.

Favourite Character: Janice

Read: 05/05/19

5 stars out of 5

Written by Sammie

If you haven't already, check out Sammie's review of Book 1: The Tainted