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Flowertown

de S. G. Redling

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Seven years ago, a chemical spill brought the U.S. Army to rural Penn County, Iowa, where soldiers established a long-term, medically maintained quarantine. Officially, it's called the PennCo Containment Area. But to the people trapped inside, their bodies tainted with chemicals that give off a sweet smell, it's known simply as Flowertown. The quarantine was supposed to save their lives, but many of the survivors have grown suspicious of the government's real motives. But not Ellie Cauley--her rage long ago burned down to hard, cynical pessimism. When a series of deadly events forces Ellie out of her apathy, she must prepare to face an enemy powerful enough to unleash her greatest nightmare.… (mais)
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Overall great book, good story but the ending... not a fan of. Would have been a great storyline for a series. ( )
  thisgayreads | Nov 4, 2023 |
When Feno Chemical spilled an experimental pesticide in rural Iowa, hundreds of people died. Those who survived contamination were herded into a US Army medically maintained quarantine and cut off from the world. Seven years later, the infrastructure is crimbling, supplies are dwindling, and nobody is getting clean. Ellie Cauley doesn’t care anymore. Despite her paranoid best friend's insistence that conspiracies abound, she focuses on three things: staying high, hooking up with the Army sergeant she's not supposed to be fraternizing with and, most importantly, trying to ignore her ever-simmering rage. But when a series of deadly events rocks the compound, Ellie suspects her friend is right—something dangerous is going down in Flowertown and all signs point to a twisted plan of greed and abuse.

Wow, what a surprise! This book was a knock-out, despite running under the radar -- I’d heard about it a couple of years ago and stuck it on a to-read list, and there it rotted for a while, surviving the periodic purges but never really picked up. I started reading it, and didn’t do *anything* until I finished it. Great book.
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  lyrrael | Aug 3, 2023 |


'Flowertown' was S. G. Redling's debut novel. I went looking for it after reading her Science Fiction novel, 'Damocles', an impressive First Contact story with a twist. I was surprised to find that her grimly plausible thriller 'Flowertown', was an even better novel than 'Damocles'.

'Flowetown' tells the story of the surviving residents of a small town in rural Iowa who have spent seven years in quarantine after the accidental spillage of an experimental pesticide contaminated them with a lethal and highly contagious biochemical agent. Many of the residents died. Those who survived have been undergoing experimental drug regimes to arrive not just at a cure but at something that will remove the biochemical agent from their systems so that they are no longer carriers. The lockdown is enforced by the Army. The medical regimen is run by a division of the same company that made the pesticide.

This is a quietly disturbing novel. Its plausibility makes it menacing but its strength comes not from the mechanics of the situation but from the emotions that the situation produces. It is a novel that is soaked in the despair that comes from normalising the unacceptable and recognising it as unchangeable. The atmosphere is so claustrophobic and so filled with the rage that is the only refuge against impotent hopelessness, that I had to take regular breaks as I read the story.

From the beginning, 'Flowertown' is an uncomfortable read. The main character is hard to like. She's tough but sour. She flips between despair and rage except when she's high, which is most of the time. Then something happens that makes her sober up and pay attention and you get glimpses of who she used to be and who she might have become if this hadn't happened to her. It's not that she becomes easier to like, she's aggressive, reckless and unstable, but as you understand what she's been through, you see that those are the traits that helped her to survive.

The first half of the book felt like it was contaminating me with the despair that Flowertown residents feel. As I understood how they had been treated and what they had survived, I grew angry on their behalf but I couldn't see a way out. By the second half of the book, I started to see that something new and even worse was about to happen to Flowertown and that our heroine had been set up to take the blame for it all. Often, at this point in a thriller, there would be a renewed sense of excitement as you consider how the hero will win through. In 'Flowertown', the atmosphere of hopelessness was so well developed that it seemed to me that the bad guys had to win and that the only question was how badly everyone else would lose. Then, in the last quarter of the book, the pace accelerated towards an action-packed ending filled with surprising twists on what was really going on and who was driving it.

For me, one of the most chilling things about this book was that, although it's ten years old, it feels contemporary. The plausibility of the plot was increased by having recently seen how the authorities treat the infected in a pandemic. What gave it teeth was the gaslighting and social engineering that weaponised fear and anger to drive people inside and outside of Flowertown to a specific result.

It seems to me that 'Flowertown' deserves to be one of those books that everyone talks about. I'm now recommending it to anyone who will listen. ( )
  MikeFinnFiction | Aug 10, 2022 |
Although there were a few weak points where this being a first novel showed a little, I didn't really stop to think about them until the book was over. Didn't spoil my enjoyment at all. Still really enjoying everything I've read from her.

Re-read: Well, stayed up way too late finishing because even knowing the end, I just couldn't stop before I got there. So still good. :) ( )
  Malaraa | Apr 26, 2022 |
What happens when a experimental pesticide spill occurs right outside of your town, proves to be quite deadly, and the US Army sets up a medical quartantines of the remaining population?

Flowertown (so named because the medicine given to combat the poison they were exposed to causes its recipients to give off a sickly sweet odor) has been in the throes of quarantine for seven years. The infrastructure is now crumbling: they get limited news from the outside world, food is in short supply, housing is in pretty desperate conditions. Ellie's best work friend is full of conspiracy theories and her roommate is going through a strenuous drug course to clear her body of the poison so she can get a leave from Flowertown to attend her sister's Vegas bachelorette party (if it doesn't kill her first).

Soon enough, it begins to look like those conspiracy theories are more like fact, and Ellie and her Army boyfriend Joe are in the thick of exposing it. A truly gripping thriller, well worth a read.
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  jenncaffeinated | Jul 4, 2021 |
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Seven years ago, a chemical spill brought the U.S. Army to rural Penn County, Iowa, where soldiers established a long-term, medically maintained quarantine. Officially, it's called the PennCo Containment Area. But to the people trapped inside, their bodies tainted with chemicals that give off a sweet smell, it's known simply as Flowertown. The quarantine was supposed to save their lives, but many of the survivors have grown suspicious of the government's real motives. But not Ellie Cauley--her rage long ago burned down to hard, cynical pessimism. When a series of deadly events forces Ellie out of her apathy, she must prepare to face an enemy powerful enough to unleash her greatest nightmare.

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