And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

​Just when you thought you’ve read every version of the zombie tale there is comes this one.
And then I woke up as a narrative twist is about the cheapest there is. It’s basically a cheat for someone who can’t or won’t resolve the plot properly.
And Then I Woke Up the novel (or a long novella) is actually quite ingenious. It’s trippy and it plays with genre preconceptions very cleverly. It isn’t even a zombie story, not really, because what’s going on can be described in many different ways.
Essentially, it’s madness. A madness some people get taken over by and some bounce back from. The narrator is one of the bounced ones and we follow his story as he tries to make sense of the strange new world he finds himself in.
I can’t really say more without giving too much away. I won’t really say more because this book is pretty difficult to describe. I’m not going to claim to love it, because it isn’t lovely or lovable as such, but it’s certainly interesting and original and does a terrific job of drawing the reader right in and I definitely appreciated it.
Genre fans who like their scares dark, psychological and trippy - and really anyone looking for something different - ought to check this out. Such a quick read too. Recommended.