As a blizzard hits their rural Wyoming homes, Jonah Miller and his neighbor Con think the worst thing they have to worry about is being trapped and isolated with their dogs.
Then Con’s German Shepherd gets out in the middle of the storm after a mysterious meteor crashes out in the woods, forcing Jonah and Con to learn that there’s far more to fear than the cold and the snow piling up outside their doors...
John Carpenter’s THE THING meets CUJO and THE TROOP in NORO, a horror novella about two men’s fight for survival against an alien parasite searching for its perfect host.
Jonah and Con are neighbors and an approximation of friends. Con is a younger, affable man. Jonah is an older curmudgeonly type who lives alone with his dog Noro, and the guilt of what happened to his wife. He thinks he needs no help preparing for the storm, but this is his first winter at the cabin.
There's more to worry about than being snowbound when a meteor crashes in the woods. Con and his dog are the first ones on the scene, and unfortunately for them, the meteor has carried something alien and deadly to earth.
I loved the interaction between Jonah and Con. Even though Jonah seems to sometimes resent that his younger friend knows more than he does, when it really counts Jonah steps up to help. This was a perfect read for a cold winter's day. It's an adrenaline-fueled sci-fi horror that the author has also managed to pack with loss, grief, sacrifice, and gruesome body horror. I don't know how such a vast amount of sorrow and apprehension fit into 132 pages.
5 out of 5 stars
My thanks to Cemetery Dance Publications for the e-ARC
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