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"Don't go to the rescue centers."An emerging Totalitarian Government unleashes a population-reducing horror upon the Earth.Would you bug in or bug out when faced with the probability both choices would end in death, imprisonment, or worse?As neighborhoods and hospitals become war zones and panicked citizens create gridlock in search of…


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One approaches a book like The Dreadful Dawn by Colleen A. Parkinson with varying degrees of trepidation, including the enticing subject matter—the promise of an end-of-the-world zombie apocalypse—and the cautious apprehension of all those movies and streaming series that have engraved their unyielding expectations and clichéd certainties into our skulls, not to mention the books on which they are based. However, those initial concerns are easily and quickly put to rest upon surrendering to this author’s skillful writing and narrative skills. The dystopian elements of Parkinson’s engaging immersion into civilizational collapse are familiar in a weirdly comfortable way—we recognize the…

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