Track 9
By Sue Rovens
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About
the Book
After a catastrophic railway
accident leaves a trail of carnage and devastation in its wake, the small train
station in Rain, Germany is shuttered. Six months later, Gary and Grace Wolf,
returning home after their belated honeymoon, find themselves trapped inside
the now defunct terminal. What they discover within its walls leads them to
make harrowing decisions. What they learn about each other pushes them to the
brink of disaster. Back in Bloomington, Illinois, their best friends, Mike and
Sarah Waverly, await their return. A few hours before the plane is scheduled to
land, Mike becomes tormented by troubling premonitions concerning Gary and
Grace. Driven to find out the truth, Mike finds himself battling mysterious and
inexplicable obstacles that plunge him into his own personal hell. Everyone's
fate hangs in a precarious balance as the clock runs out.
My
Review
Tying inexplicable zombie terror,
bad donuts, wholly unlikeable clueless tourists and even worse friends, an
obnoxious prescient child, a train that is and isn’t there, and tying it
between small town Illinois and very small town Germany, is no mean feat.
Readers of horror will be
intrigued by Rovens’s story of a very, very bad train wreck and the aftermath
of ghoulish behavior by the survivors…and the non-survivors. Meanwhile, devious
and dull, faithless and obsessive business partners and friends air their
grievances as their fates play out both in Illinois and Germany. Mike can’t
seem to realize he lives in nasty Gary’s pocket, even when Mike’s wife points
it out and he agrees. Grace can’t seem to find a personality until it’s too
late, and her husband, Gary…well, let’s just say everyone gets what he or she
deserves in this adventure of a honeymoon gone horribly wrong.
Told in migrating viewpoints, the
reader is treated to a devolution of humanity as fears are aired and hung out
to wave in the gory breeze. Lots of body parts, phantom invasions,
premonitions, and bumps on the head, let alone in the night. A nice big bang
finishes the job. I did have to put it down and finish it in the morning…
About
the Author
Sue Rovens is a
suspense/psychological-horror indie author who is an active member of the
Chicago Writers Association. Her two novels, Badfish and Track 9, are available
in both paperback and Kindle formats. She also has two short story collections,
In a Corner, Darkly: Volumes 1 and 2 - think Twilight Zone kicked up a notch.
Sue also runs a blog,
suerovens.com, part of which features interviews with authors from a number of
different genres. It's a very active blog with content being added a number of
times per week.
