Black Tide by KC Jones is such an entertaining book! I had so much fun with these characters and the disastrous way they navigated through an apocalyptic event.

This is a character-based short horror novel set on a beach where our protagonists, Beth and Mike, with the dog Beth was supposed to be taking care of, got stuck on a beach during some kind of alien invasion. Beth is young and irresponsible, Mike is an older movie producer who is completely done with everything when Beth comes barreling into his life by accident. And when the two end up in a disaster, what follows is a series of unfortunate events set up by their bad decision-making.

Favorite moment: honestly, hard to choose just one, but to me as a Croatian, it has to be when Mike sees a manual car and goes '🤷‍♂️ well, we're dead, I don't know how to drive a stick, so let's just lie down here and wait to die'. Because aliens and a rising tide are somehow not as scary to an American as a manual.

These two are pure comedy, but the novel also goes into some dark and emotional topics, so it's not all fun and games. It's all balanced out really well, showing us how life can sometimes be unfair, tragic and hard, but also it's worth living it, to fight for it.

The novel is a short, fast read, perfect for the beach.