Those are my two favorite novels in this genre, and Brad Manuel's effort here follows very impressively in their footsteps. Worth a read, unless what you're looking for is zombies and gore - then you'll be disappointed.Ī unique & important addition to the genre!įans of Stephen King's The Stand and Justin Cronin's The Passage will definitely not want to miss this one. The author deliberately set up the type of plague, it's onset and symptoms, the rate of infection and fatality, all in such a way that the world would be left relatively empty but mostly intact, and used that setting to tell the story of adaptation in a far more mature way than most zombie or plague books ever get around to doing. The book takes a fairly mature look at what could be accomplished if the conditions allowed. you'd discount this as not worth bothering with - and you'd be wrong. Everything goes right and nearly all the decisions made are the right ones, the very few survivors represent all the needed skills to a level that seems almost ridiculously unlikely. There isn't really any great conflict and very little serious tension. You would think a book where nothing goes wrong would be boring - and on one level you're right. What do they have to do to make it? Unlike every other book I've ever read in that genre, there are no roving bands of thugs, no armies of raping and pillaging hordes, no herds of brain dead contagious zombies. The premise is the very common, post disease die-off, empty world situation. It's an answering argument to the survivalist guns and gore stores. This was one of the strangest books I've ever read or listened to. ![]() They meet others along the way, slowly forming the last tribe of humanity from the few people still alive in the Northeast. ![]() Spring arrives, and the Dixons make their way north to find young Greg. John and his three brothers appear to be immune, but they are scattered across a locked-down United States, forced to wait for the end of humanity before travelling to the mountains of New Hampshire. Roadblocks, a panic-stricken population, and winter make it impossible for him to get to his son. Knowing the impending New England winter could be the final nail in his coffin, Greg packs what little food he can find and sets off on his 100-mile walk north with the unwavering belief that his family is alive and will join him.Īs the fast-moving and deadly disease strips away family and friends, Greg's father, John, is trapped in South Carolina. ![]() The last message from his father is to get away from the city and to meet at his grandparents' town in remote New Hampshire. The nights are getting colder, and his food has run out. His classmates and teachers are dead, rotting in a dormitory-turned-morgue steps from his room. Attending boarding school outside of Boston, he is separated from his family when a pandemic strikes. Not only do you struggle to find food, water, and shelter but you also deal with the sadness and losing everyone you know and everything you have.įourteen-year-old Greg Dixon is living that nightmare. Imagine being alone in the world, one of only a handful to survive a global pandemic.
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