Necrosis by C.L. Schneider – Review by Savanah Schwarz

“Raspy sounds of hunger pushed from her rotted throat, washing over me with the smell of old blood and things long dead.” This is the sentence that greets you when you open this tale of the dead. It eeks and reeks and creeks of sounds of the dead. C.L. Schneider describes in such intricate detail the vast difference between the living and the dead. She pulls you in with the dead sounding so close to humanity that when we hear from the characters, we know the feeling of seeing what was once human be so appalling and yet show slight shadows of the dead’s former self. I am a huge fan of apocalyptic books and stories and this does not disappoint. This fantastic story starts with Amy, the mother of Lily, her nine-year-old, standing in her mom’s house, after months of fighting for her life and with her boyfriend, she hoped, against what she already knew, that her mother was alive. As you follow her along in this journey of trying to fight and survive the dead, you become attached to her and her daughter and you will right along with her. Surviving, along with her, you become immersed in it and almost willing them to survive. This is one of the best stories in this genre. I give it a 5-star. definitely recommend. Though I warn you, because of how descriptive and alive these characters and things become in the story it can be a little unsettling. Definitely looking forward to C.L Schnieders’s books in the future.