#42: Brood X by Joshua Dysart

In 1950s Indiana, a group of itinerant workers are brought to a remote woods to dig a bomb shelter; but when they unearth a once-in-a-lifetime brood of cicadas, they begin dying one by one in Joshua Dysart's Brood X.

Dysart is primarily a comic-book writer, and this slender volume of pulp fiction comes from TKO Rogue, an imprint of TKO Comics.  

It seems natural, then, that the novel is a little light on plotting and characterizations (and includes a few illustrations), but is eminently readable and very propulsive, rocketing to a somewhat surprising ending.

Dysart has a steady hand with the proceedings, and this was a good, light one to read over Christmas Break, after receiving it for the holidays.