BUT! There are definitely moments where it began to get to more horror and I was racing through the book to see WTF was going on! Some of my favourites (as spoiler free as possible…):

And I think it’s because the heavy sci-fi focus probably muted the horrory virus aspect. Whilst there is a focus on the virus and the outbreak that killed everyone, particularly in the first section of the novel I didn’t find myself as scared or unsettled as I would usually feel with such a concept. It’s definitely a science fiction novel first and foremost, with a focus on space travel and somtimes intricate details of the House of Wisdom ship and it’s workings. Going into Salvation Day, I think I expected more horror elements than we got. Except then they wake up what was waiting on the ship….

But now, the cult members have a plan to reach the ship and rebuild it to support their colony. Years ago, House of Wisdom, one of the biggest ships ever built, was destroyed in a virus outbreak. One such group, a cult from the North American desert, have found their chance to escape to freedom in the skies. But outside of the Council’s protected cities lie groups of people either escaping the Councils and their control, or refugees desperately trying to enter the cities. Councils rose to fix the wrongs of the past. Set in a world hundreds of years after the first Collapse of Earth, a new society has been born. Salvation Day is a science fiction thriller with an edge of horror, and perhaps shouldn’t be read whilst there’s a deadly virus outbreak happening around the world…. A threat to all of humanity that lay sleeping alongside the orbiting dead. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya-the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship.īut what Zahra and her crew could not know was what waited for them on the ship-a terrifying secret buried by the government. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. They thought the ship would be their salvation.

Goodreads blurb: A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller.

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