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Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
The Oasis of Filth - The Complete Series by Keith Soares is a dystopian novel told from the perspective of a former doctor who faces the outbreak of a lethal combination of leprosy and rabies that turns people into zombies who can infect other people easily. Ten years after the outbreak of the disease, he does not work as a doctor anymore, and the world has changed a lot. Cleanliness is the new obsession, and no cure is in sight. It all changes when the former doctor meets Rosa, a much younger woman, who believes in the existence of an oasis outside the city. Does that oasis really exist? Unfortunately, the doctor does not have much of a choice when Rosa suddenly gets taken by officials, and he follows her, helps her, and then has no choice but to leave the city with her. The two have to face zombies, cautious humans who want nothing to do with them; and when they finally find the oasis and learn about a possible cure, life still does not become much better. On the contrary. Some people in power might not want a cure to exist.
After reading The Oasis of Filth - The Complete Series by Keith Soares, I actually can't imagine how the series would work as individual books. To me, it is just one book and it would not make much sense to take it apart. While it definitely was easy to read and the main character was easy to relate to, I sometimes felt that some scenes would have profited from more descriptions and more depth. It definitely would also have worked as an even longer story. The story moves along quite quickly, and is very interesting. Unfortunately, many things in the story make sense and you could even transfer it onto today's politicians. What would they do if there was a lethal outbreak, but if there was someone who actually had a simple cure?
Keith Soares has written an entertaining story that keeps you reading, but also makes you think about our own world.
