Not a fanI found it quite difficult to read once that clicked with me... it was just one of those stories that really didn't bring anything new to the table
Loop (2020)
Others: Mostly negative Stranger Things meets World War Z in this heart-racing conspiracy thriller as a lonely young woman teams up with a group of fellow outcasts to survive the night in a town overcome by a science experiment gone wrong.Turner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of western Oregon, the kind of town you escape to for a vacation. When an inexplicable outbreak rapidly develops, this idyllic town becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence as the teenaged children of several executives from the local biotech firm become ill and aggressively murderous. Suddenly the town is on edge, and Lucy and her friends must do everything it takes just to fight through the night.
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- 9781789097252
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- 320 pages
Genres: science fiction
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Mixedthen we have the loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson this is a story of a bunch of adults but also their teenage children and this violence starts occurring at school