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    Kick at the Darkness

    By Keira Andrews

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    To live through the zombie apocalypse they have to survive each other first.

    College freshman Parker Osborne is having the worst day ever. He humiliated himself trying to pick up a cute guy, he hasn’t made any friends at school, and his stupidly hot jerk of a TA gave him a crappy grade on his paper. He’s going to drop Adam Hawkins’ film class and start fresh tomorrow after he’s had a good sulk.

    But Parker’s about to find out what a bad day really looks like—if he can survive the night.

    A virus is unleashed, transforming infected people into zombie-like killers. After these quick and deadly creepers swarm campus, Parker only escapes thanks to Adam swooping him onto the back of his trusty motorcycle. Now they're on the run—and stuck with each other.

    When they’re not bickering, they’re fighting off the infected in a bloody battle for survival. Their only hope is to head east to Parker's family, but orphaned Adam has a secret he’s not sure Parker will accept: he’s a werewolf. Can they trust each other enough to find some light in these dark days?

    This gay romance from Keira Andrews features enemies to lovers, a really stressful road trip, two young men finding love in the zombie apocalypse, and of course a happy ending. Book one in the Kick at the Darkness m/m shifter romance series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKeira Andrews
    Release dateMay 27, 2015
    ISBN9780994092410
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    Keira Andrews

    After writing for years yet never really finding the right inspiration, Keira discovered her voice in gay romance, which has become a passion. She writes contemporary, historical, paranormal and fantasy fiction, and—although she loves delicious angst along the way—Keira firmly believes in happy endings. For as Oscar Wilde once said, “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” You can find out more about Keira and her books at: www.keiraandrews.com

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    • 5/5
      Holy moly! I am NOT a huge fangirl of zombie apocalypse or shape-shifters books, but then I hadn't read "Kick at the Darkness" yet ...

      This is my first Keira Andrews book, and I love her deft, wickedly funny, mad writing skills (plus bonus points for using the phrase "conscious coupling"!) Set at the beginning of a zombie-like pandemic, with echoes of Stephen King's "The Stand", this book is hot, dirty, terrifying, sexy, heartbreaking and just about everything in between. Amazing book and I cannot wait for a sequel ...... or ten.

      Full Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      It struggles in a couple of spots with character inconsistency that pulled me out of the story a bit. I liked that this focused on the directly post-disaster time and she tried to encorporate some idea of how basic services would work (she made some errors,.but that's expected). Parker and Adam were a cute couple.

      I think the "werewolf surviving a zombie apocalypse" is maybe overkill, and the ending was definitely abrupt and lacking.