David Moody - Hater

Remain Calm
Society is rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent assaults on individuals. Christened Haters by the media, te attackers strike without warning, killing all who cross their path.

Take Shelter
The assaults are brutal, remorseless, and extreme: within seconds, normally rational, self-controlled people become frenzied vicious killers. There are no apparent links as a hundred random attacks become a thousand, and then hundreds of thousands. Everyone, irrespective of gender, age, race, or any other difference, has the potential to become a victim - or a Hater.

Wait For Further Instructions
People are afraid to go to work, afraid to leave their homes, and, increasingly, afraid that at any moment their friends, even their closest family, could turn on them with ultra-violent intent. Waking up each morning, no matter how well-defended, everyone must now consider the fact that by the end of the day, they might be dead. Or perhaps worse, become a killer themselves. As the status quo shifts, "ATTACK FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER" becomes the order of the day ... only, the answers might be far different than what you expect... .

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Daniel McCoyne lives an average life. Married, three children and a job he hates he lives pretty much uninterested in change or better his situation as long as the job pays the bills. But things seems to change without his doings. People around him suddenly act strangely violent killing other people. As the situation escalates David must hide with his family in fear to be the next one who is attacked by the so called Haters, people who suddenly seem to become murderous beast.
But when David awakes one morning he becomes a "Hater" himself barely surviving his defending wife. On the run he witnesses authorities "cleaning" the town he lives in. Haters, including him are arrested and presumably killed. Driven by his only thought, one of his children he recognized as not being a thread to him, he wants to make his way find his wife and rescue his child.

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So what is it that makes people rave about this book ? I couldn't answer this question even if I tried. The book drags along with David witnessing people changing or chapters where the book completely shifts to an unknown person becoming a Hater. David's personality is a huge bore, as are the small short stories about the Haters.
Interesting though is the fact, that the reader gets to hear the story from the other side when David becomes a Hater himself, filled with rage against those that aren't like him.

The question remains if the reader is interested enough to read the following two parts which aren't published yet. I would be interested in reading how the story goes on, now that we finally got to the point where something happened in David's life but I couldn't stand to bore through another one- or two hundred pages where literally nothing happens except the same thing over and over again.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1 edition (February 17, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312384831
ISBN-13: 978-0312384838