The Feast (The Human Herd Series) [Kindle Edition]

Tiffany Dow (Author)

Book Description

The Feast - short story #1: In the aftermath of an infection that tainted food crops and killed off much of the animal food supply for humans, a lucrative black market had emerged selling disease-free human meat. The government has gotten involved, developing five Ranches in the heartland of America. Fourteen-year old Elira is the firstborn member of the human herd, living comfortably in the only world she’s ever known, unable to relate to her Mother’s desire for freedom. It’s not until the young girl’s own world is turned upside down that she feels a desire to break free.

Product Details

• File Size: 125 KB
• Print Length: 38 pages
• Publisher: Write Consultants, Inc. (August 5, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008TSWLH0
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,211 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars All I can say is... when will there be more? August 6, 2012

By Amanda

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I picked up this book because I have been a huge fan of Tiff's for long time and the concept sounds so intriguing. The big thing you realize while reading this book is that the what-if scenario IS horrifyingly possible!

While you don't have to worry about gory scenes in the story there is a good chance your stomach will turn as you understand what is going on. My biggest issue now is that I want to know what happens next!

For Tiffany's first work of fiction she has done an amazing job. She was able to pull me in and keep me turning pages better than many "seasoned" fiction writers!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars It's Riley and ME. Please, check your grammar! September 3, 2012

By Diane C. Howard

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Make an interesting TV series.
I can't believe this author has no grammar checker for a short story! Use it!
To figure out if you need to say "Riley and I" or "Riley and Me" just delete the "Riley and" part of the sentence. Would you say "She smiled at I" or "She smiled at me?" It's a no-brainer, especially since every word-processing program on the planet has a grammar-checker. You have to manually modify the program to say "I want to sound stupid." The uneducated phrasing took away from the story.
Aside from that, my first reaction was disbelief. Not that I don't think humans would eat other humans for food -- I do. But humans are incredibly expensive to raise compared to rats, dogs, pigs, etc. Gestation is too long, and time to market is too long (even for veal). The story does say that food animals got sick from eating tainted grain, but there are plenty of wild critters that would have been raised instead. The auction makes sense, but it would be like the Hunger Games or The Lottery. And why bother with filling the teeth of your lunch meat?
There's the question of language. Supposedly, the humans are told not to use language, so subsequent-generation humans would not speak. But we know better from parrots, cats, dogs and horses -- animals try to emulate sounds in order to communicate. A more realistic option would be to remove their toungues at a young age, and pickle them for sale.
Intriguing, but too much is out of sync to make sense. I didn't enjoy the grammatically incorrect writing at all, though I liked the fact that the girl in the story has little problem with accepting that she's meat.
A suggestion: Maybe read first-hand accounts of concentration/death camp survivors. See what their mental attitude was, especially if they were children or observed them. Kids might not be able to compare a life they don't know to the life they do.
I wonder if PETA would object to humans being raised for food, or if they exist in this future. I bet they would support it; perhaps they would have been in charge of the original humans-for-food plan (in conjunction with Tyson and ADM, perhaps).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than I expected...and I expected really great! August 9, 2012

By Debi J

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I expected this to be a great short story, partly because I know the author writes well in general and never does anything halfway, and partly because the premise of the book was intriguing for those of us who like this stuff!

The only bad thing is that when I got to the end, I was so wrapped up in the story line that it was frustrating to know that I couldn't go get the next installment yet (hopefully it will be out in the near future).

I truly think if this is just an example of the series that you've got a hit on your hands Tiffany. Congratulations! And I look forward to your next one...

More About the Author

My name is Tiffany Dow and I'm a woman who started her own online marketing business, authors books, raises three wonderful kids, is a vegetarian and embraces her inner honey badger when it comes to standing up for things I believe in.

CAREER: I didn't have the guts to formally pursue freelance writing until the day my infant son fell ill with a respiratory infection and I was determined never to return to work another day.

That desperation catapulted me forward in building a career that I could not only be proud of, but that earned me six figures working from home - what a blessing!

I love writing. I love researching. Journalism is what I went to college for, even though I didn't end up pursuing a print publication job.

But there are some drawbacks to freelance writing. Not every client is a winner. Some are cranky, rude, and disrespectful. The money you work for is never residual - each time you need money, you have to take on another project.

So I was enamored by the Internet marketing business model that would allow me to put my writing skills to use for myself, creating an income stream where I worked one time and got paid for years from that single effort.

My first Amazon book (but not my first online eBook), A Freelance Writer's ATM Machine, will help you break free from the binding nature of working for others and allow you to maximize the impact your writing has on your earnings.

I'm very transparent and available to those I share this knowledge with, so feel free to contact me directly through my site at TiffanyDow.com whenever you need guidance or motivation.

VEGETARIANISM: My story wasn't one by choice but it's one that I'm happy happened to me. I wrote a book called Becoming a Vegetarian Against Your Will that not only details my journey from hungry meat eater to happy vegetarian (it wasn't as easy as embracing a kumbaya attitude).