Asylum is the hottest homosexual nightclub in town. Curtis, a twenty-year-old virgin, finds himself waiting in the dark parking lot for his friend, Jimmy. Both of them are homosexuals, but Jimmy is far more ‘seasoned’ than Curtis. This is quickly noticed as Curtis is waiting for his friend to finish going down on a guy inside a parked car. The oral sex act was quickly stopped as the windows were shattered and the man Curtis was satisfying, was yanked out and torn to pieces.
At first, Jimmy and Curtis think that it is local punks who want to, “beat on gays,” but that thought quickly leaves their minds as they look at the assailant’s cold and dead faces. The friends flee into the nightclub where they are met by another cast of characters. After a brief exchange, the survivors barricade themselves inside and wait out the disturbance. But when a group of people are locked inside a building, with the dead banging on the doors, things happen…
I’m going to be honest, I rarely read blurbs. I’ll skim through it and pick out words, but I like the element of surprise in stories. When I began reading Asylum, it threw me off. I was not expecting to read a book where the characters are homosexuals, and commit sexual acts with each other, in great detail. I have no problem with people’s sexual preferences. I know I am attracted to females so I can read a story like this without freaking out about the content. I say this because I know how the world is, so if the person reading this review has a problem with homosexuality, stop here and don’t read this book.
I thought Asylum was a very entertaining story. It had a hand-full of colorful characters, some I liked more than others, but as a group, they did well with each other. The dialogue between them was authentic, and did add much to the story.
One thing I really disliked about Asylum was that it’s about the people. The author can just change the word zombie to any other natural disaster and you’d end up with the same basic plot. People are barricaded inside a building and they can’t leave, one of them goes crazy and ruins it for everybody. The zombie interaction in this novella was very brief, they only make an appearance in the beginning and the end. There is no back story to them, they are just there. I like reading stories where the people are surviving zombies, not just surviving. I know many people see that differently, but that’s how I see it.
Anyway, I did like the story, but I just wished the zombie interaction was greater than what it was. I will give Asylum, 4 Undead Heads out of 5.
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