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One Yellow Eye
Leigh Radford
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‘Snort-inducingly funny . . . One for those with strong stomachs and big hearts’ — THE TIMES
Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband. Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly having rounded up and disposed of all the infected.
But Kesta has a secret . . . Tim may have been bitten, but he’s not quite dead yet. In fact, he’s tied to a bed in her spare room. And she’s made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.
A scientist by day, Kesta juggles intensive work under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile, knowing she is hiding the only zombie left. But Kesta is running out of drugs – and time. Can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse . . . will they trigger another outbreak?
‘An acidic, funny, queasy debut’
EMMA VAN STRAATEN, bestselling author of This Immaculate Body
WHY READERS LOVE ONE YELLOW EYE:
'I absolutely devoured this (pardon the pun)'
'Man oh man. This is one of those hypnotising novels that just instantly compels you to keep reading'
'Grimy, atmospheric, and so beautifully bleak it absolutely burrowed under my skin'
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ash.reads.horror\ \ ash\ \ • Jan 14
\ \ Are zombies coming back?\ \ For me personally, they never left. Zombies in media have definitely played a huge factor in my horror journey. Train to Busan, Resident Evil, The Walking Dead, and more are all media that I've loved.\ \ In honor of the release of This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers, I wanted to dive deeper into a few zombie novels that I have either loved or are high on my tbr.\ \ This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers-(currently reading)-Pitched as The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later, the book follows a group of teens that barricade themselves in a highschool during the zombie apocalypse. Warning, this one does dive into some heavy themes such as abuse and thoughts of suicide.\ \ The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey (read)--This one follows a world plagued by a fungal zombie apocalypse. It involves a teacher, a young girl, and the military in a journey for a cure.\ \ Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (read)--In an alternate history, black girls are forced to attend a school to become "attendants" who protect white society from the undead. This book tackles racism and classicism.\ \ One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford (tbr)-- This one is a post apocalyptic novel that follows a scientist who hides her undead husband in hopes for a cure.\ \ And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin (read)-- Not a typical zombie novel. This is an apocalyptic novel that focuses on a hallucinatory virus that leads you to see everyone around you as monsters.\ \ Zone One by Colson Whitehead (tbr)-- This one follows a group of people clearing out underground manhattan of zombies and rebuilding civilization.\ \ World War Z by Max Brooks (tbr)-- A history of the zombie apocalypse told as a post war historical document.\ \ Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (tbr)--A tense novel following a rabies-like virus. It focuses on a pediatrician who races to help her friend who is eight months pregnant and has been bitten by an infected. She must get the vaccine quick if she wants to save both her self and her unborn baby.\ \ Agnes At The End Of The World by Kelly McWilliams (read)-- A young girl escapes a fundamentalist cult only to get throw into a pandemic in the outside world. \ \ What’s your favorite zombie novel/movie?](https://ashreadshorror.binderybooks.com/item/icTkfPpfjWEPXvhfbuOT/)
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Chanterelle Solace\ \ Sabie\ \ • Jun 1
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17 books that make me feel seen because ...
Is there any book(s) that you feel makes you seen? 👀
Books that make me feel seen belong to a lot of categories, including those that focus on found family, cozy fantasy and retellings. A lot of the themes that tie this books together are finding a place where you belong, having our stories told with the beauty and fairness they deserve and being accepted wholly for who you are 🤎
Each of this piles carry books that are in different genres, including Cozy Fantasy, Romance, Retellings and Anthologies to name a few but I saw myself in each of them! Sometimes it was the representation like Aicha, being a Moroccan Retelling as someone who is from there or a Muslim Romance in The Mis-Arrangement of Sanaa Saeed! I also saw alot of my struggles as a disabled/CI in Its all in your Head and there’s a piece of my in all of these books🥺
And the STEM field Related books will always have a special place in my heart because of how relatable it is as someone who works in the field!
And here is a list of all the books mentioned in this post: 🍄 It’s all in your head by Sabina Nordqvist 🍄 The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed by Noreen Mughees 🍄 The Between-Worlds B&B by Amy Mae Baxter 🍄 The Ex-Perimento by Maria J. Morillo 🍄 The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow 🍄 Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 🍄 Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi 🍄 House of Frank by Kay Synclaire 🍄 Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal-Mohtar 🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Love and Poison by Aamna Quershi 🍄 The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gimore 🍄 The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean 🍄 Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui 🍄 Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity 🍄 One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford 🍄 Love and Other Brain Experiments by Hannah Brohm 🍄 Next Level Love by Shameez Patel
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ash.reads.horror\ \ ash\ \ • Jan 14
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Chanterelle Solace\ \ Sabie\ \ • Dec 19 2025
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What are some books that represent your taste overall and do we have any in common? 👀
Before we dive into this, Bindery now has an option to request recs and you can go to the 🔗 in my bio and click “Get a Rec” and ask for details of what you’d like from the books I’ve read! I’m also making lists of 2026 releases in fantasy, romance and horror so far so happy to share some of these early on with you guys (these will be recs of what I’m looking forward to rather than what I’ve read) so GO GO GO 🤎
As for my taste in books, I’m never going to be the type that picks only 5 top books for the year guys and I’ve learned to accept it because honestly, what do you mean my top 5 books in one year? I would have to host a meeting with myself for a whole month to decide that 😭 So instead, you guys get my taste in books throughout various sub-genres that I yap about all the time!
Here is a list of the books (if you prefer to read through it or for accessibility needs)🤎: Cottagecore: 🍄 Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries 🍄 After the Forest by Kell Woods 🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Love and Poison by Aamna Qureshi 🍄 The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton 🍄 The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 🍄 An Arrow to the Heart by K.R. Bacher
Cozy Fantasy: 🍄 The Baby Dragon Cafe by Aamna Qureshi 🍄 Legend & Lattes by Travis 🍄 The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong 🍄 The Nameless Restaurant by Tao Wong 🍄 Watermoon by Samantha Sotto Yambao 🍄 The Spellshop by Sangu Mandanna
Witchycore: 🍄 The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright 🍄 House of Frank by Kay Synclaire 🍄 The Lone Wolf Cafe by Sydney Wilder 🍄 The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore 🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna 🍄 Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
Retellings, Fairy Tale & Historical Fantasy: 🍄A Sorceress comes to Call by T.Kingfisher 🍄 What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez 🍄 Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross 🍄 We Shall be Monsters by Tara Sim 🍄 The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G Slatter
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Oct 22 2025
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Chanterelle Solace\ \ Sabie\ \ • Jul 22 2025
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“Because with my mum, I understood that there came a point when I had to let her go,” he said … “Because it was the natural order of things. It made me understand that there are limits to what science can and should be doing. That it shouldn’t interfere with that natural order.”\ \ Overall: What did I think of One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford? \ \ Rating: 4.75/5\ \ Genre: Zombie Horror\ \ What a book. One Yellow Eye is what made me realise I like post apocalyptic books and this one talks about grief, what it means to lose your loved one and has scientific additions to it. If you have been here for a while, you’ll know that I lost my grandmother in September 2023 and she was one of my best friends, a part of my soul. Losing my grandmother felt like losing myself and I dont think I will ever find that part of me again. This is very similar to what Kesta goes through and because of that, One Yellow Eye will always have a special place in my heart as I saw too much of the old me in Kesta and related to the story a lot. Grief is hard and heavy, yet Radford deliveries it in an eerie and beautiful way.\ \ What is One Yellow Eye about? \ \ One Yellow Eye discusses how far and to what extent would you let the horrors consume you and try to save your loved ones?\ \ I think once upon a time, maybe I would have done what Kesta did but now, I could never. The reason behind this is, while we want our loved ones to stick around forever, you want to encourage them to fight through their disease, to stay and be the beam of sunlight that you know them to be; however, you realise that the disease tends to chip away at their bright sunlight and what is left of them is something you cant selfishly wish to keep them around for.\ \ Death, Grief and all the things in between \ \ Kesta goes through a journey here only a selected few in the book can understand as Tim was the last human bitten in the book out of 11 others. She is stuck playing a role as she nurses a secret of keeping Tim (un)alive.\ \ “Thing is, Kesta” Jess sniffed, "he’d definitely want you to be happy”… Kesta just nodded and smiled. People didn’t have a clue what Tim had wanted, and yet these days, they seemed intent on telling her that he’d want her to move on.”\ \ She is stuck listening to others in her life tell her what Tim would have wanted, that he would want to see her move on. She has a few people around her that do try to help her but this does nothing. It made me think of how when you lose a loved one, everyone starts to tell you what to do like: Its time to move on, its time to live life again… etc.\ \ Everyone begins to tell you that they understand what you are going through, even if they have never lost someone they considered one of their soul mates (be it a friend, spouse or family member). Kesta is surrounded by advises and tips that they understand her pain but she needs to MOVE on. As a person who grieved very differently than others, I related ALOT to this.\ \ “Jess, Grief isn’t something you can leave behind in the long stay car park at Gatwick Airport. It goes with you everywhere.”\ \ Scientific Elements in One Yellow Eye \ \ Kesta is a scientist and we see a lot of elements of pathology and biomedical science in here!\ \ ”The microscope always held the answers. It foretold the future. It sealed your fate. It bore hope and death together, clutching them in the same impartial hand. The microscope never lied at 350 times magnification.”\ \ And there are a few comparisons of scientific knowledges with grief that just makes my STEM loving heart soar (this is how I found out I love books that tackle zombie apocalypse in a scientific way guys) as Kesta dives deep into Histology and histopathology.\ \ “She was in the grip of mitosis, collapsing in on herself and splitting into two. A new version of Kesta had separated from the first, taking all the hallmarks of the original, but something other, something different. The two Kestas must exist as one: the grieving widow at work and the scientist nursing a zombie in her flat.”\ \ Who are you doing it for? \ \ Throughout the story, Kesta maintains that she is doing everything to keep Tim (un)alive so that he can survive, get the cure and make it through. However, throughout the story, we see character development that shows us Kesta realising who she is actually doing it for.\ \ “… she realised she wasn’t doing all of this for Time. She was doing it for herself, perhaps more so. She didn’t want him to die because she didn’t want to lose him, didn’t want to accept that this irrevocable schism in her life was permanent.”\ \ Kesta has an internal conflict throughout the book about whether it is Tim still in his own body or if the virus has replaced who he once was. This is something she struggles to accept and refuses to aknowledge for most of the book. It is what we all think when we start to see a loved one become sick and as they struggle with their treatment: Is it still them there? Are they different now?\ \ “As she sat there in the afterglow, she knew she had been deluding herself. She’d thought they were in this together, she and him, as they had been since the night they met, when they gave up their own lives to share a single life between them. But Time was in this alone, wasn’t he? He was soldiering his way down to the abyss without her.”\ \ Wrapping up the review: \ \ I hope you choose to pick up One Yellow Eye, that you see what it is like to lose someone you loved so much, you couldnt see a life without them. I hope you understand Kesta’s point of view and that you see what she struggled with. This is a beautiful story that tells us about the pain of life, grief and love. Everyone deserves a chance to tell their story and this was Kesta’s story.\ \ \ \ Thank you to Tor Books, Book Break and the author for letting me partake in this tour! I am so excited to be able to partake in a tour with my substack for the first time and all opinions in here are my honest one.](https://cozysabie.binderybooks.com/item/15dbqkblbxwdnCIQEdS4/)
A Scientist, her zombie husband and Post-Apocalypse World: One Yellow Eye Review
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