Zona

Right at the beginning of this new Zona adventure we have the lovely description of the two leading women characters - and then of the other two weird followers we have come to know and love so well in the previous books. The author's seamless melding of author narrative and Zona the protagonist's stream-of-consciousness makes this so readable and believable. As before, there are new wonderful creatures endowed with mythical power that will awe, enchant, horrify or terrify the reader! There is Zona's battle with the Hydra whose swirling tentacles threaten to suck her crew into a bottomless vortex; and there are strange, humanoid creatures adapted to live in decaying subterranean environments - worm men - mutations brought about through debilitating plague that might be infectious. Nick Berry is a master story-teller, and we are transported effortlessly - one might say seductively! - into the strange alien, weird, surreal world of his imagination. - Charles Muller, Diadem Books