Star review: 2.5/5 stars
Recommend: If High on Shrooms
| I received this book to read for an honest review.
You are following Vanessa, a middle aged woman living in a small town in England. She owns a well established day care after her divorce with her husband, Jack. You follow her journey in her belief that she will end up suffocating to death from the lack of air, and her sanity slowly going, when she believes that she is the last human alive.
Vanessa also has an interest in her mail man, John.
John has told Vanessa about his idea of going back to sch I received this book to read for an honest review.
You are following Vanessa, a middle aged woman living in a small town in England. She owns a well established day care after her divorce with her husband, Jack. You follow her journey in her belief that she will end up suffocating to death from the lack of air, and her sanity slowly going, when she believes that she is the last human alive.
Vanessa also has an interest in her mail man, John.
John has told Vanessa about his idea of going back to school, with her support, he does some research in their small town.
Heather, is a druggie that is hired by Vanessa as a teacher. Although, Vanessa didn't know about Heather's drug use.
The book opens up to one of Vanessa's teachers acting strange. Said teacher doesn't register anything that happened around her, including a child that was injured.
Not long after that, everyone is acting unusually calm. Even though the farmers herds and crop are dying and people going missing/ showing up dead; under unusual circumstances.
As the book progresses, you learn that the planet is dying from an extraterrestrial matter..... a form of mutated mushroom.
The mushrooms' spores infect their host and slowly kill it.
With that in mind, after the host has been completely reliant on the mushroom to survive, the host then goes where the mushroom wants and officially dies. That includes plants and animals.
Eventually the earth is running out of oxygen, in that case whatever is left, dies.
The plot for this book, is quite unusual. It took me a little while to understand what was going on. Due to never hearing of any book with mushrooms.
There were a few points in this book that were rather slow, but after getting through them, you realize that there is quite a bit going on.
I enjoyed how the author has put some science in the book. Not everyone knows that plants make our oxygen. Wipe them out, we can't breath. We would die from carbon monoxide poisoning with out plants.
This was a quick read. It is definitely something different. And if Syfi is your thing, you might like this book.
I, personally, found it odd choice as a book, but it's not a favorite. It was still an good read.
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