Red Hill is the latest novel from the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best selling contemporary romance author Jamie McGuire. She is is known for critically acclaimed novels Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster.
Red Hill gears away from romantic love story and focuses on the theme of survival as a zombie apocalypse takes over the world. The book is told in three different points of view. Nathan is an unloving marriage but has his daughter Zoe who keeps him grounded. His cold wife leaves Nathan and Zoe the day the world came to an end and zombies roamed the Earth. Scarlett is a divorcee headstrong mother who will do anything and everything to keep her two girls safe. Miranda is a tough and opinionated teenager who is struggling to get her boyfriend Bryce, sister Ashley, and Ashley’s boyfriend to her father’s ranch, Red Hill in one piece.
A deadly “outbreak” has taken the nation by storm. As the virus spreads fear and panic is in the air as the characters try to find a safe haven. McGuire creatively twines the characters together and we see how their journey is connected. She gives vivid details of the characters background story and how they evolve with the zombies roaming the streets. Old and new relationships are tested as survival out weighs all other emotions.
McGuire is an extremely talented writer as she takes you along for the eerie and realistic journey of survival. From the beginning to end you will find yourself completely sucked into the chaotic world the characters are faced with. The ending is bittersweet with the loss of major characters but it will invoke tears, laughter, love, loss, and suspense. After reading Red Hill you will become a firm believer that a zombie apocalypse can come true.