But the mountains and their people hold a different kind of danger.

Surely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little family. Above all, Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. With elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story about a mothers fight to survive. A terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around them. Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood. I’d categorise it under dystopian female fiction,which for me was a solid 3.5 stars. It’s under 300 pages and just so effortless to read. I saw a fellow blogger flag it up on Twitter as a read that she absolutely wanted to get her hands on, it also tickled my reading pickle so I purchased my own copy and pretty much devoured it in one sitting. So, Sealed was published by Dead Ink Press in.

You can find some of the other reviews over at The Reading Closet. Sealed by Naomi Booth is my 3rd review for this blog but out of 10 reads this month (at time of writing this), 8 have been written bu female authors. I’m currently making my way through a TBR pile of books written by women, in a personal challenge to myself to read more books by female authors. Friday is here at bloody last, the last Friday of the agonisingly long month, known as January.

Naomi booth sealed