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Plague Nation (2013)

by Dana Fredsti(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0857686364 (ISBN13: 9780857686367)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Titan Books

series

Ashley Parker

review 1: I am nearing the end of this book and I am SO disappointed! The story and the characters are as great as ever, but my respect and admiration for the author are basically gone or at least greatly diminished. The story gets to the point where the plague spreads to Salt Lake City Utah, most people know that Utah is a place where many people belong to the "Mormon" church. I myself am a member of the church, so things that are said in this book are personally hurtful and offensive and very narrow minded. The author describes Mormon families as being A man in a frumpy suit, a woman with huge hair and a shapeless dress, and too many kids who look too much alike. She also goes on to insult the practice of wearing garments. Active adult church members can choose to wear garments, s... morepecial sacred underwear underneath their clothes. The author calls the garments "magic underwear". I just couldn't believe that! Would you insult a catholic person wearing a cross and tell them it is stupid to believe in a 'magic necklace? or would you scoff at a Jewish man wearing a yamaka and call it a "magic hat? NO of coarse not, no decent person would because all of these are sacred and special to the people who believe in them! And even if you don't believe in any of those things I hope you believe in the right for other people to believe without being made to feel stupid or naive. Let me be clear Mormons do not believe that garments are "magic underwear", we believe they are a sacred reminder of the covenants we have made with the Lord and a protection from temptation. If you can't write a book without being insulting and unfeeling maybe you shouldn't write anything at all! I am not only upset because it is my religion that is being insulted, I hope, and I think I am the kind of person that would be offended if someone was being publicly ignorant and unkind about something someone else believed, even if I didn't personally believe it! It is not ok to be unkind about others beliefs, even if you think what they believe is crazy. Also the things said about the Mormon religion were in no way important to the story line, plot or characters. Saying things like "even their "magic underwear" couldn't save them" is hurtful and unnecessary. As I mentioned I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (more commonly known as Mormons)and thankfully I am nothing like we are described in the books. I only have one sister, I have family members with tattoos and who ride motorcycles and have purple hair. Also not everyone in Utah is Mormon, there are many religions and cultures! there are punks and goths and bikers and conservatives and liberals and clowns and circus people and homeless people and drug dealers and preachers and every other kind of person and or group you would find anywhere else. I love the diversity and the kindness of the people who live in this great state. I do not want to come across as unkind to the author! I hope she didn't mean to be hurtful and hopefully someone will bring this to her attention so that maybe it won't happen again. You can write without being cruel and mocking things that are very important to people.
review 2: I am divided regarding this book. Parts of it were good, but there was a lot of starting and stopping and not much forward momentum. I hated being jerked out of the main storyline to get snippets about random people in other cities. The worst thing was that there was no resolution for those other people's stories, unless they show up in later books which would be fairly cool. I think this would have been a better book with a clearly defined and contained story. I will read the next one in the hopes that it will be more like the first. I did like the introduction of J.T. less

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