When it Rains by Mark Allan Gunnells
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Synopsis: Just after noon on a sunny spring day at Friedkin University, a layer of strange clouds smudges across the sky, and a mysterious rain begins to fall. This isn’t just a surprise spell of rain—this substance is slimy and gelatinous… and it’s not letting up any time soon.
The rain spreads across the country, the hemisphere, and the globe, with growing ripples of panic and paranoia gathering behind it. Is it a natural, undocumented phenomenon? A chemical weapon? Some kind of bacterial contagion? As fear turns theories into conspiracies and no clear answers are given, factions start to form between those who have been exposed to the rain and those who stayed dry. Who is safe? Who is marked? Who is dangerous, and who is not?
My Thoughts: For some reason I thought this was gonna be a zombie type story and it wasn't but I'm not disappointed that it wasn't at all. I must react to that ending first off....Brilliant just brilliant! Sad but eye opening! Awesome perspective and twist!
This is a story of a mysterious rain that begins to fall all over the world at almost the exact same time covering anybody that got caught in it in a slimy booogery sticky mess. We get to watch everything play out from a small university campus in South Carolina and via news broadcasts the people who become trapped there hear as the paranoia builds over whether this is an apocalyptic event or a possible chemical warfare that's been released or something else entirely.
I enjoyed the story and thought the author did a fine job showcasing how human nature usually is when big things like this that are not easily explained happens. The panic, anxiety, fear, and confusion that gets under our skin and causes us to make rash choices and decisions based on little to no proven facts. My only small issue is I felt I almost had too many characters to keep up with.
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