TAINTED REALITY Volume 2 By Ashley Fontainne 5 stars Life hangs by a string DR. EVERETT BERNING achieves his life’s work by discovering a cure for drug addiction. Unfortunately, the formula is stolen and falls into the hands of the enemy. This second volume takes up where Volume 1 stops and Dr. Everett Berning is hiding out in the laboratory where he worked on the original vaccine to stop addiction for ten years and finally succeeded. Drug lords from around the world, pay their scientists to find a way to use the original vaccine to make the world full of addicts, but instead their scientists unknowingly make a drug that turns humans into zombies and cannibals, releasing this new drug into the public, affecting millions across the globe. Within forty-eight hours, worldwide people are becoming zombies, killing and eating the bodies. Sometimes they eat the bodies before the victim is dead. The entire planet erupts in total chaos as the disease spreads and there are mutilated bodies and gore everywhere. Through trial and process, the survivors find that you can only kill these zombies by shooting them in the head. The military is sent out to stop the terror, but its decision is just to shoot everyone still alive and stomp out the disease that way. There are a few survivors trying desperately to live and help others who are till disease free. In the meantime, Everett remains underground hiding in his lab and he is being pressured by the few other surviving scientists to find a vaccine to overcome this horror. So far he is helpless. This particular story concentrates on a group of people who are still free of the disease and they are attempting to make their way to the back part of Walmart, believing that they can hole up there, and survive for a few months. But the zombies break in and a few more people die. The small group of survivors manage to make it to the hospital, but it has already been invaded. Now the survivors, including a couple of teenagers and some hunters, all armed, are out in the mountains, attempting to find a safe zone where they can live where the zombies have not invaded. This story has many twists and turns, actions and surprises as is usual with this author. There will be a third book in this series coming out on the market soon. I was given a complimentary copy for an honest review.