Description:

A bone-chilling dystopian horror now in development as a major motion picture.

Humanity has been devoured to the edge of extinction by Shivers— nightmarish creatures with an insatiable hunger, bound to torment their hosts until they finally feed.

The last morsels of humankind cling to life in a decaying gothic-esque city, surviving only by the ritual of exile—a desperate measure now failing.

Anthem, the Exilist, is charged with capturing these eldritch horrors and banishing them beyond the city’s great walls. But Anthem harbors his own Shiver, and its hunger grows more uncontrollable by the day.

As new threats reach a breaking point for the city, Anthem must venture beyond the walls in a desperate search for a remedy.

Faced with unimaginable horrors, Anthem’s journey is a thrilling, pensive, relentless struggle to conquer the monsters in our shadows. What he finds is so much more.

Adele’s Review:

The Monsters In Our Shadows is a dystopian novel in development as a major motion picture. When the invitation to read the book arrived in my inbox, I decided to give the novel a try. Although horror is not a genre I typically read, I do love bone chilling thrillers and horror movies. And since I know first-hand how difficult it is to get a book published, and how next to impossible it is to land a movie deal, author Edward J Cembal gained my respect in an instant. Of course I’d read his book.

I’m not a psychiatrist, but I’d almost bet the shadowy nightmarish creatures inside the story with an insatiable hunger to consume human hosts, called Shivers, are metaphors for clinical depression. If so, I now understand why depression is such a debilitating illness. The Shivers are horrifying in their ability to slowly but surely suck the life out of a person. In this novel, battling and winning against the Shivers is the key to human survival. In The Monsters In Our Shadows we follow protagonist Anthem’s journey to defeat the monsters.

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6698595256

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CF74SYF7