BOOK REVIEW | I AM LEGEND BY RICHARD MATHESON

Title: I am Legend
Author: Richard Matheson
Genre: Horror
Pages: 320
Publisher: SF Masterworks
Date Published: 1954
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857988093
Rating: ★★★★☆

Synopsis

Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.
 

An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.

By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... .

My Review

What THE!? Okay, We meet Robert Neville, he's the last human on earth, at least that's his assumption. Everyday he tried to figure out how this disease that killed everyone and turned them into vampires works and he's trying to figure out how to cure it. 

The vampires are scary, and weird. The typical vampires... garlic repels them, sunlight burns them, crosses affect some of them, that sort of thing. But Robert gets to the science of it all. He wants to know WHY! and it's almost driving him insane. Then Ruth comes along and .... well that's all I can say without spoiling the entire book.

It was great. It was short, sweet, to the point and scary AF. Then again, I'm pretty sensitive to scary things. This book was written in 1954 and you get that classic horror feel from it, which is the creepiest part. I really enjoyed it. 

We see how much Robert struggles to get some peace. You really feel his NEED to get answers and it frustrates him to no end. It's hard to hear, but the story is really good and worth the read.