What’s Cure About?
Welcome to the Nixon Healing and Research Center, playground for the maniacal Dr. Howard Nixon whose medical research has him dabbling in the undead and has the women of Strandville disappearing.
Desperate to find a cure for the lethal virus which turns its victims into zombies, Nixon kidnaps Miranda Penton, a security recruit with a past that won’t let her go. He doesn’t count on anyone coming looking for her, least of all her ex-husband, Scott.
A warning call brings Scott to Strandville where he bands together with a team of locals determined to bring their own loved ones home. Together, they infiltrate Nixon’s staff, hatching a plan that releases not only the surviving women, but the virus on those left in the hospital.
Nixon locks down the center to contain the spread, turning patients, visitors, and staff into a dangerous horde that is almost impossible to escape. Miranda and the others fight for their lives. The town of Strandville is ground zero for the zombie apocalypse and Miranda must get free because the fate of humanity lies with her unborn child.
Our Cure Review
I sat down to Belinda S. Frisch’s Cure unsure of completely what to expect. While the idea of zombies have often been mixed with medical experiments or scientific experiments this was a new take on the subject. Zombies happened in a rural area and the event was contained. A doctor was able to get a sample of the disease and has been working on finding a cure as well as ways to beneficially use the virus since that happened. It’s been completely covered up so no one has a clue that’s happened.
That’s pretty much all happened prior to this novel and where we step into things.
In the novel we follow Dr. Nixon who has been giving access to the zombie virus. In his own private little world he is using the virus to experiment to find the cure for cancer. In his own little world though everything is done by his rules and his way. His rules are highly immoral and unorthodox as he is infecting the fetus’s of pregnant women (and impregnating these women in many cases) with the zombie virus to try to create a zombie stem cell that will solve the world’s largest disease.
So yes it’s that kind of twisted. As much though as you end up hating Dr. Nixon you are also going to hate his side kick Billy whose development was great. At least after the initial change where his character seemed like someone you’d almost feel sorry and root for to being a total scumbag right after. I didn’t feel that transition flowed well but when that is my only complaint about the entire novel (aside from having to wait for the sequel) that is not a bad one!
Inside the down of Strandville women of childbearing age are disappearing and a group of townsfolk who have lost their loved ones are gathering. They believe that the disappearances are related to the research hospital who has it’s own privatized security force and is completely on lock down.
Mix in a new security guard whose wife is there for an experimental cure for cancer, a pregnant woman who just signed up to be a security guard at the hospital, and her ex who is trying to track her down and the perfect combination of what you need for a page turner you can’t put down. Cure is a nonstop action filled and character driven book you are going to have no regrets reading.
While the human element is the greatest threat on all fronts don’t worry – zombies have their time to shine as well. While the moments are few and far between as the human horror is be far the greatest threat when the zombies do have their moments they shin in full undead force!
This is one of the most creative and unique zombie novels I’ve read in awhile and I can’t stress enough that you should be picking this one up immediately. You are all fortunate as the sequel is already out and while I haven’t had a chance to pick it up yet if it’s even half as good as this one you are not going to be let down. I’m also jealous that none of you had to wait for this one as I did.
