Brave New Worlds

This evening I was rearranging some of the shelves in Old City- moving last weeks trades and hardcovers to their proper places and I stumbled across a book I somehow missed last week. The Broadcast.

The Broadcast, written by Eric Hobbs and illustrated by Noel Tauzon, is set in the fall. I am

i love the weathered cover

a sucker for things set in the fall. I love the fall. I reread the Legend of Sleepy Hollow once a year to get prepped and in the proper mood for it even. Well, as I was moving this book, which looks like a weathered paperback suspense novel from back in the day, I read the back:

Already fighting a vicious storm, a rural Indiana town loses power halfway through Orson Welles’ “WAR OF THE WORLDS” broadcast having never learned the infamous radio play is a hoax. [basically I was sold at this point] Fearing the worst is upon them, four diverse families band together in an effort to make it through the night. Tensions build, however, as long suppressed emotions and unsettled conflicts surface, and it isn’t long before all involved realize they have more to fear from each other than they do the “alien invasion” heading their way.

Ok. This sounds great! Now I’ve never heard of the creative team but that is an intense concept that I can definitely get behind. I have to wonder how the heck I missed this. I must have forgotten we ordered this cause it just screams: READ ME! So, needless to say, I plan on reading this really soon. Especially since it looks like a good fall read.

I still don’t know how I missed this…