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Sunny Moraine

Your Shadow Half Remains

Your Shadow Half Remains

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Linday Hasluck's Review 

I thought the zombie genre seemed to have been done to death, until I picked up this little unexpected surprise. With a zombie-style plague spread by eye contact setting the pretext for an unusual psychodrama, this tale is unique within the zombie-post-apocalyptic genre. The lead character Riley has been in self-isolation since fleeing the city. Her comfortable countryside routines that are slowly leading to an existential crisis are suddenly interrupted by a visit from a new neighbour, Ellis. While unable to look at each other’s faces, they attempt to begin a new friendship. Negotiating human space and emotional desires through the shadowy vision of welding goggles, the human need for connection begins to outweigh the horror of the zombie infection, which may or may not still be rampant.  
 
Strange happenings begin in Riley’s home, and after losing online contact with the rest of the world, she must contend with having to rely on her new friend to survive. As events spiral into chaos, Riley is brought to the edge of madness and murder, when she must confront the realities of what she has become in a radically changed world. Written in a modern unpretentious style, Moraine has written a zombie book with a difference, and which many who have suffered recent medically-induced isolation and fear will be able to relate to. The book ends where it almost seems it should have begun. 

Publisher's Review 


The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage.

ONE LOOK CAN KILL.

Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive. But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Riley’s overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind.

Somehow, in this world where other people can mean a gruesome, bloody death, Ellis makes her feel safe. As they grow closer, Riley’s grip on reality begins to slip and she can no longer fight her deepest desires. All Riley wants to do is look.



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