The Birds and the Bees

I've always called horror "icky bug" and Sephera takes icky bug to the next level. She produces a unique twist that makes the story fascinating. I like the way she draws her characters and the plot weaves in and out with plenty of twists and turns. A fascinating read, I finished the book in two days where it usually takes me a week or more. I found myself putting off other interests to finish it and I am glad I did. The story drew me in and held my interest right to the end. A wonderful initiation to her world, I am now a fan for life!

Ms. Giron has a delightfully disturbing knack for taking ordinary people who would be our neighbors, waitresses, and grocery clerks and exposing their emotional frailties to us in an ant-farm fashion. As morbid curiosity pulls our guilty scrutiny to the looking glass, Sephera turns on the sun lamp behind us, blasting alien light upon these people as we hold the lens. With wicked smile, she seems to say, "Watch and learn as they burn."In "The Birds and the Bees," the cast is so wonderfully degenerate and dysfunctional, it would seem their personal tales were gleaned from an afternoon of eavesdropping at the local coffee house.Then Ms. Giron sends in the bees...and then the birds. Seemingly random at first, each species attacks common people with unrelenting fury and violence, killing whomever they have chosen as their daily prey. But a few people find an inner strength and resolve to see past the apparent chaos of Mother Nature gone amok.This brooding work by Sephera Giron, a rich and darkly enchanting vision of natural Apocalypse, can be consumed in one fast-paced day, only to be followed by an ill-slept night.