On this day, the complex’s residents are going about their business when something horrific happens: a horde of naked, insane, bloodthirsty people appears and they start killing anyone they come across. The Pine Village Apartment Complex is just like any other complex in the country: a diverse and slightly boring place where some folks are nicer than others and everyone keeps more or less to themselves. Then everything clicked into place and had my answer. I was prepared to write a standard review, but couldn’t put my finger on what it was that made this one special, what made the characters stick with me for so long, and why “fun” was the first word that came to mind when I thought about ways to describe a story about naked individuals killing innocent people. After I finished it, I allowed my brain to process the narrative and to start figuring out ways to convey how good it is in standard book review form. Three chapters into The Complex, Brian Keene’s latest from Deadite Press (his latest is Pressure), and I knew the book was special and on its way to joining the list of my favorite Keene novels.
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