With her father’s glock, some survival supplies, and her parents’ ashes, Alex enjoys the quiet peace of the woods – until an inexplicable thing (the EMP) causes her to pass out, writhing in agony. In the terminal stages of her inoperable brain tumor, Alex decides to leave her Aunt and the slew of ineffectual “treatments” behind, and heads for the Michigan wilderness.
Before civilization disintegrated by detonation, Alex was a girl on her last legs. Not with a bang or a whimper, but with a high-intensity electromagnetic pulse (EMP). On a picturesque fall day, the world ends. Even with my skepticism concerning the premise of the book, I was very excited to nab a copy at BEA this year. Bick’s novel Draw the Dark and was very excited to see that she would be taking a stab at the apocalypse, zombie(ish) style. How did I get this book: ARC from the Publisher at BEA
Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a planned trilogy A tense and involving adventure with shocks and sudden plot twists that will keep teen and adult readers gripped. This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to find food, shelter, while fighting off the ‘Changed’ and those desperate to stay alive. Desperate to find out what happened and to avoid the zombies that are on the hunt, Alex meets up with Tom – an Army veteran who escaped one war only to find something worse at home – and Ellie, a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse. For those spared, it’s a question of who can be trusted and who has changed… Everyone still alive has turned – some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh). An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky zapping every electronic device and killing the vast majority of adults. Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Speculative FictionĪlex has run away and is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents’ ashes, about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live.
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