The first half of this book is literally a 5 star read for me (and I don't give 5 stars that often), but the second half is maybe a 1.5. It is such a shock to go from loving a book and then to being completely annoyed with it, so I had no idea what to do about rating this one. Alex herself suddenly seems like she's just stumbling from one random encounter to the next, and by the time it all ended with a somewhat interesting but predictable cliffhanger, I was ready to abandon them all to whatever horrible munchy fate might befall them. The story changes tone completely, there is a whole new cast of characters, the story is poorly plotted, the writing became disjointed, and every single element I liked about the first half of the book was completely abandoned. WHAT? TF? Talk about leaving your readers high and dry! From that point on, things stop making any kind of sense at all.
This cliffhanger ends one chapter and when the next one begins, the story takes up three days later. During a tense standoff with a band of vicious kidnappers, one of the three people in Alex's group is shot. I liked the strong but fragile Alex, and I was thoroughly engrossed by the incredible suspense and visceral, shudder-inducing scenes that will be forever seared into my memory.īut literally halfway through the book, something really odd happens. The prologue is well-written and compelling, and I was drawn to the bleak, lonely mood and stark setting right from the very beginning. She is saddled with an angry 8-year-old and an attractive ex-Army guy who's hiding secrets, and they all must find safety and shelter from the other survivors who are no longer.human. 17-year-old Alex is transformed by the big event in ways that she can't understand. The first half of this book is a phenomenal. And people drop dead instantaneously and inexplicably-or they are miraculously, irrevocably changed, some for the better, and some for the worse.
Deer run off a cliff, maddened for unknown reasons.
It all starts with a cataclysmic electromagnetic impulse.
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