Young Adult Book Reviews

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Paige wakes up in her bedroom hooked up to an IV without any memory of how she got there. Her mother is a nurse, so she’s guessing she got sick and her mother rigged the IV for her, but it’s obvious no one has checked on her for awhile as she is weak and underweight. As she begins looking around it becomes obvious that not only has her family died, but so has everyone in her neighborhood. As she struggles to get her strength back she finds her neighbor’s beloved dog still alive and finally has a companion. Eventually, she meets a few other survivors, but no one seems to know what caused this horrific turn of events. To make things even worse, they have spotted alien type creatures out patrolling as if looking to make sure no one has survived. Is this some kind of alien invasion? Why didn’t Paige and the other survivors die along with everyone else? What could the aliens want from Earth? What must Paige and her new friends do in order to survive long term?

The first in this series is compelling from the start as Paige struggles to come to terms with her new reality. She loses absolutely everything within a matter of days including her family, best friend, house, belongings, etc. She is definitely affected by this, but her desire to survive outweighs her need to feel sorry for herself. The other people she meets all have their own baggage as well, but despite their grief and fear they all do want to survive even though life as they knew it is completely different now. This book will interest everyone from avid readers to reluctant readers and everyone in between. It has a lot of action and plot twists that will keep everyone guessing and there’s plenty more story to come out as there is more to come. Highly recommended.