Eleven Twenty-Three: Contains gore. Lots and lots of wonderful gore.
This book is unlikely to become a best-seller but was a decent/fun read. Lots of questions, lots of trash plot line, some amazing prose, a fair amount of nearly putting it down and moving on. Eleven Twenty-Three (Jason Hornsby) 318 pages Permuted Press ISBN-10: 1934861340 ISBN-13: 978-1934861349 Central story Layne and Tara come home from teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in China for a year, to attend the funeral of Layne's estranged father. Overnight, the sleepy hometown becomes a bloodbath. Beginning at 11:23 am and repeating at each consecutive 11:23, mass portions of the population go apeshit and start mass killing. The government has quarantined them. The outside world believes that smallpox is rampant. Layne and Tara work to escape the town and ensure their survival as well as the global knowledge of what their town went through. Zombies? No.. Insanity? Maybe.. Alternate dimensions? Mind control? Ghosts? Petrochemical allergies? God? Cost of tea in china? Who t...