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This week I'm looking at the plots I never get tired of seeing!
1) Something Lurks In The Woods
Whether it is cannibals attacking cabins, monsters eating tourists, serial killers killing campers, zombies rampaging through the forests, I just can't get enough of this type of scene in my horror reads.
2) Society Collapses With An EMP
Watching the preparations for a disaster followed by the actual disaster and the breakdown of society as we know it is always appealing! I love EMPs more than any other kind of apocalypse disaster because it is so deadly for survival.
3) Talented Group tackle someone evil
It can be Harry Potter's or Buffy's gang, a group of paranormal creatures working together or a group of talented humans taking on evil. I enjoy a group of people with different skills working in harmony to take down the bad guy without fights, romance and bickering!
4) Dangerous Game Shows
I've only read a few compared to other scenarios but I love seeing contestants stalked by monsters, take on valleys of dinosaurs, teams of hunters, towns full of zombies. I enjoy watching them have to deal with each other as well as the main threat. Fun!
5) Deadly Expeditions
I love reading about expeditions to mysterious islands, deep caverns, dark jungles, mines, space colonisation trips, archaelogical digs, the Amazon, and any place where there will be trouble! I enjoy the excitement of expeditions going bad!
6) Antarctic Outposts
Things buried in the ice wake up, snow monsters, a madman killing people, killer storms...there is just something great about the isolated place, the bad weather and some kind of threat ready to kill the people stuck there.
7) Tudors
I don't read much historical stuff but I'm addicted to Tudor fiction. I can't get enough of books about Henry VIII and his wives and mistresses as there is always scandal, backstabbing a new interpretation of questioned events in the timeline.
8) Modified Things
Spiders mutated in labs, huge mutant animals in the jungles, sharks turned into weapons, dinosaurs escaping their theme park pens, zombies escaping from research facilities...there is something really scary about all of these things getting out and coming after you!
9) Interesting Sidekicks
I like talking creatures helping the MC or team, animal sidekicks whether they talk or not, demon and animal familiars featuring heavily in plot, faithful hounds in the apocalypse who don't die...
10) Deadly Waters
Whether it is the sea, rivers or lakes, with sharks, alien monsters, krakens, eels, piranha, things invented and mutated in labs, I'll read it! I like underwater complexes flooding, ships in trouble, zombies on cruise ships, anything like that!
I'm on board for a lot of these, especially something in the wood, antarctic outposts and interesting sidekicks!
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing like it when you settle down to a book with a favourite plot setting and get excited about what is coming!
DeleteI love so many of these: deadly waters, antarctic outposts, EMP, lurky woods, and deadly expeditions! Great list. :D
ReplyDeleteI love those scenarios so much...I never get bored with them!
DeleteI read a Dangerous Gameshows type book, and it was really good. There's something to be said for watching people endanger their lives in the name of a prize.
ReplyDeleteIt has become a new favourite for me! I've read a few dinosaur and zombie ones and enjoyed them. There needs to be more like that!
DeleteLove all these! I gotta say though, there aren't near enough EMP dystopian books out there.
ReplyDelete~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum
I've ploughed through quite a lot of fun EMP books but I'm always looking for more!
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