OK so let me start off by saying that this book looked like it would be really good, but I was disappointed. This novel definitely had a lot of potential and just when I was like ok here we go now it'll start to get good I was left wondering what the heck happened.
Here is your basic plot, in the future there is a plague that is so bad that it kills 99% of the population. After this plague the weather system also goes outta wack leaving the world with a long wet season and a long dry season , also hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes (oh my!) that ravage the earth. Not really sure how plagues trigger natural disasters, but o well it's the end of the world right? SO anyway living all by her lonesome in Central Park is this 17 year old girl, Lucy. She's living and hacking out a meager existence in this lean-to type structure. No what I found really odd about this was that she was living there by choice. Her house didn't succumb to any of the disasters, and yeah sure with 99% of the population dead the water and heat are gonna be shut off eventually, but you still have a structure that you can live in, why would you leave your home in Northern NJ and trek to NYC to live in the woods especially when she states that the reason she left her family's home was so she didn't have to be alone after her family dies. Hello you are living alone, but in considerably worse conditions. So that was one this that bothered me. Something else that bothered me was the lack of zombies, not that I was expecting them right off the bat, but when Lucy does a flashback to the plague she talks about how once you get the plague chances are you are going to die from it, but there is also a very slim chance that you will survive and if you do you can become a "S'ans" and she talks about how they are crazy and try to attack people and I'm like "Oh cool, zombies wasn't expecting that, maybe now it'll get better", but nope disappointed there too, turns out the "S'ans" are just misunderstood and are completely normal aside from their appearance from the plague. Also, the big chase and climax is at the end, the very end and it was very disappointing. Overall, it did not live up to the hype I created in my head for this book based on it's plot summary.
So here are some questions for you based on the book which is in bookstore despite it's June 1 release date, so for those of you itching to read it like I was it's there in the stores waiting for you, but just don't have really high hopes for it. Ok so here are the questions to think about. If you were Lucy would you have left the relative safety of an actual building for the squalor and uncertainty of the woods? Next question is slightly spoilerish so read at your own risk. Would you have let the so called scientists use you and your blood if it meant have a chance to save everyone who was left from a mutating plague? Well, that is you food for thought
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