Survivor Song

By Paul Tremblay

Book Overview

"Fresh and surprising. Survivor Song may be one of Tremblay's best-- beautifully detailed, viscerally frightening, and deep with emotional resonance. --Dan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author of Ill Will

A riveting novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.

Dr. Ramola Rams Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed--viciously attacked by an infected neighbor--and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.

Natalie's fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares--terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink.

Paul Tremblay once again demonstrates his mastery in this chilling and all-too-plausible novel that will leave readers racing through the pages . . . and shake them to their core.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062679163
• ISBN13: 9780062679161
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I just wish it ended differently. The ending sux!

Good read.

Mix of dark creepy fairytale with characters that stay with you long after you finish the book. Paul Tremblay has done it again.

It's good!

Not spoiling it but, the end could have been better.

A truly gutting read, I absolutely loved it.

Reading this over Mother's Day weekend, during a pandemic, may have been poking the bear, but once I read the first couple of pages I was not putting it down until it was finished. The hooks that grip you are sharp and unforgiving; you will bear witness until Paul is done with you. This story is at once tragically real and inevitable, but also horrifying and beyond comprehension. Its only fiction.... right, please God... I found myself tearing up several times, full on wept three times and closed myself in my bedroom to read the final thirty pages without my family interrupting so I could mourn in peace. It is a book that touches on friendships and compassion in the face of uncertainty and fear; violence and rhetoric in the face of restrictions and science, hitting a little close to home right now. I absolutely loved reading this book. I already know this is a book I will reread and cherish every time.