Wow, it's been quite some time since I flew through a book the way I did with Sick by Brett Battles. So many of my reads lately have been difficult to get into, so much so, that I have actually given up on three, which is very unlike me. The thrill and joy I usually receive from reading just wasn't there with them, my mind constantly wanting to flip on the TV or go browse Facebook rather than continue with the books. It was sad. Nothing was working. I felt at a loss, my greatest pleasure in life being denied to me. But then I opened up Sick on my kindle, which I had downloaded during a free period a few days earlier, and found myself completely hooked.
It begins with a simple cry in the night, one that wakes Daniel Ash and causes him to check on his daughter, his mind thinking this is nothing more than a simple nightmare and that coaxing her back to sleep won't take long. He is right in one respect; it is a nightmare, only this one takes place in the waking world rather than the sleeping one. His daughter is sick, something within her quickly destroying the body she occupies. And she isn't the only one. His wife is already dead, and the people in the houses surrounding his are all plagued with symptoms and succumbing at an alarming rate. Thankfully a team of military-like personal move in quickly and secure the area preventing a widespread contamination - only how did they get there so quickly after the first signs of trouble? Also, why are they keeping Daniel Ash in a prison-like setting after it becomes pretty clear he isn't sick and actually immune to the virus?
Something isn't right . . .
My reading of Sick couldn't have come at a better time, because, as I said above, I was growing more and more upset with the lack of excitement I was feeling with the books I had been reading. Sick, however, reminded me of what it is I love and why I prefer to sit down and read during my free time as opposed to turning on the TV or jumping online. It is a story that grabs you from page one and doesn't let up until the end, one that gives a wide variety of characters, many unknown to each other, who are all circulating around a central conflict that could, if not contained, spell the end of mankind. Even better, this tale, while able to stand on its own, is the beginning of a much larger body of work, one that promises to be an exciting journey. Battle lines have been drawn in the world within Sick and the skirmish fought between the two forces within this first installment of the Project Eden series is only the beginning.
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