Author: Amanda Panitch
Genre: adventure/survival
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Rating:
.JPG)
Summary (provided by publisher): When seventeen-year-old Zara escaped her father’s backwoods survivalist compound five years ago, she traded crossbows and skinning hides for electricity and video games…and tried to forget the tragedy that drove her away.
Until a malware attack on the United States electrical grids cuts off the entire country’s power.
In the wake of the disaster and the chaos that ensues, Zara is forced to call upon skills she thought she’d never use again—and her best bet to survive is to go back to the home she left behind. Drawing upon a resilience she didn’t know she had, Zara leads a growing group of friends on an epic journey across a crumbling country back to her father’s compound, where their only hope for salvation lies.
But with every step she takes, Zara wonders if she truly has what it takes to face her father and the secrets of her past, or if she’d be better off hiding in the dark.
My opinion: Most of us have probably entertained the idea: what happens to the world if the grid goes down? It should come as no surprise then that authors explore this in teen novels. In this case we have a character with the perfect skill set to survive in an emergency. She knows how to protect herself, where to go for safety, and has emergency supplies ready to go. This can't protect her from chaos, though. From random events that make her survival much less of a guarantee. It informs her choices, makes her and her crew more likely to survive to be sure. The first couple of chapters are tense and action packed. As her group travels, though, their challenges become increasingly strange. Society seems to be crumbling at an accelerated pace. As they face bizarre foes, my ability to engage with the plot waned. What began as an interesting though experiment became chaos and meaningless violence.
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