Brood
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
They should never have been born...
Adam and Alice Twisden are not ordinary children. Their parents used an experimental fertility treatment, and paid a horrific cost.
The twins' aunt is determined to give them the love and stability that they have never known. But outside the refuge she is trying to create, dark forces are combining. Troops of other feral offspring roam the New York streets. And there are people out there who wish to destroy them... and others who see a way to profit from them.
As the city becomes a battleground, Adam and Alice must decide where their loyalties lie. They are determined to remain human - and yet their own unnatural urges are growing ever stronger...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Novak's repetitive sequel to Breed (2012), antiques dealer Cynthia Kramer assumes the care of her traumatized niece and nephew, twins Alice and Adam Twisden, born through illicit fertility treatments that turned their parents into ravening monsters. Hoping to rehabilitate the genetically warped twins through "tons of love," Cynthia has their parents' Manhattan town house renovated, but she still must contend with a bat in the toilet and a cellar full of rats. Alice and Adam, desperately trying to stave off the puberty they fear will turn them into cannibalistic beasts, repeatedly run away to Central Park, where a gang of abnormal hybrids who sell their blood to lascivious seekers of a fountain of youthful libido lurks. Novak (the pseudonym of Scott Spencer, author of A Ship Made of Paper) achieves a few scenes of genuine rat-inspired horror, but the tongue-in-cheek tone of this satirical supernatural thriller won't be to every taste.
