First came the storms.
Then came the Fever.
And the Wall.
After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct…but in reality, a new primitive society has been born.
Fen de la Guerre is living with the O-Positive blood tribe in the Delta when they are ambushed. Left with her tribe leader’s newborn, Fen is determined to get the baby to a better life over the wall before her blood becomes tainted. Fen meets Daniel, a scientist from the Outer States who has snuck into the Delta illegally. Brought together by chance, kept together by danger, Fen and Daniel navigate the wasteland of Orleans. In the end, they are each other’s last hope for survival.
Book Review:
As many of you know, I have been trying to expand my repertoire when it comes to literature recently. I have been reading many more genres and authors lately. This novel is a mix of Sci-Fi and Dystopian. One of the reasons that I picked it up was because it was set in my favorite city in the entire world!!! I want to live in the French Quarter of New Orleans one day!!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The setting was very unique as it was set in this post-apocalyptic time period type of thing. New Orleans was the only place affected by a blood disease and they were then walled off from every where else. This follows a teenage girl, Fen de la Guerre, who was just a little girl when the disease took over the city. She has lost everyone that she loves and now has to take care of a new born baby girl whose mother was a surrrogate mother to her before dying in childbirth. Besides just keeping the two of them alive, she also has to try and get this little girl out of the walled city before the disease enters her bloodstream.
Fen encounters Daniel, an outsider, who thinks that he is very close to a cure for the disease. He has snuck into the city to find the scientists who entered the city before it was walled off. Most of those scientists have died at this point but he has hope that if any have survived they can help them.
The ending was really upsetting. It wasn't bad nor sad, but it just didn't end in a way that I had expected nor wanted. It was still really good though.
Pages: 324 Rate: 3.5/5
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The setting was very unique as it was set in this post-apocalyptic time period type of thing. New Orleans was the only place affected by a blood disease and they were then walled off from every where else. This follows a teenage girl, Fen de la Guerre, who was just a little girl when the disease took over the city. She has lost everyone that she loves and now has to take care of a new born baby girl whose mother was a surrrogate mother to her before dying in childbirth. Besides just keeping the two of them alive, she also has to try and get this little girl out of the walled city before the disease enters her bloodstream.
Fen encounters Daniel, an outsider, who thinks that he is very close to a cure for the disease. He has snuck into the city to find the scientists who entered the city before it was walled off. Most of those scientists have died at this point but he has hope that if any have survived they can help them.
The ending was really upsetting. It wasn't bad nor sad, but it just didn't end in a way that I had expected nor wanted. It was still really good though.
Pages: 324 Rate: 3.5/5
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