Review of PripYat: The Beast Chernobyl by Mike Krause
5 stars
“PripYat: The Beast Chernobyl” turned out to be so much more
than I expected. I learned a lot about the Chernobyl explosion and its
aftermath, including how it affected the nearest community, PripYat. I think
everyone who supports the use of nuclear energy needs to read this. But the
book is not a polemic: rather it is a sort of scientific paranormal, a very “possible”
what if story.
Two adolescent boys who love to explore decide it’s safe to
camp overnight in PripYat, mostly just to look around and also so they can say
they’ve done it. Meanwhile, two soldiers of a very covert special operations
team are sent in to PripYat to find—something. The younger of the two doesn’t
know what and believes it is just a wild goose chase, but orders rule and so he
goes on the mission with his partner, who knows more but isn’t telling.
What the two pairs find is not just each other, but
something so horrible it must be experienced to be believed; but experiencing
it means dying because of it. This is the kind of monstrous secret which kills,
violently and implacably. Can it ever be halted?
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