2 Books Like In Universes

Every so often a book comes along and blows your mind. I’m not saying this lightly. I read a fair amount, and I’m a really tough critic, and … this book was magnificent.
It drew me in from the opening pages and never let go. It isn’t just the spectacular description and terrific character development, the taut suspense and the mind-boggling plot reveals, it’s all of that plus so much more, strung together by Binge’s great writing.
A man lost in his own guilt, driven to the most impossible tasks and locations to distract himself from it, a mountain appearing seemingly out of nowhere from which none come back the same and where nothing makes sense. The two of them are destined to meet—each a stunning character in their own right—for a most memorable of reckonings.
Cramming science, philosophy, and faith; crossing and blending genres, this sci-fi-nightmare of the most… show more.

This book was a completely random find that attracted me with its cover and size. And then I started reading it, and it blew me away.
It's a deceptively simple story of longing for what is gone, set in a world overtaken by zombies, and told from a very personal, very intimate perspective of an unusually sentient zombie.
Being hungry is the driving force here; hungry for a love done no longer there, for the shared past and the future that could have been, for a connection ... and yes, for flesh.
The real standout here is the writing - lyrical and haunting, it possesses the reader completely. Stylistically economical yet never sparse, and strikingly beautiful all the way. This is a book you can get lost in, in the best possible way.
The overall vibe here is the one modern poetry often tries for and fails, using the language… show more.