Michael Barnes
This is a pandemic novel and written in 2022 carries all the experiences, learnings and failures that that period held. There is an out break of plague (infact its THE plague) but its not an outbreak/zombie book. No shade on anyone else that's one of my favorite genres but this isn't one of those stories. This one begins a few days before the outbreak at The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center. We meet the teens dumped there and how they respond as they learn they are abandoned by their private company, guards and adults and when they try to leave are met with a police barricade enforcing a lockdown. How they try to organise, develop and survive is the story.
Told from three points of view: Logan, who communicates via a sign language she and her twin sister developed between them; Emerson, a new resident of Hope who’s also nonbinary; and Grace, a girl with some big anger issues who winds up reluctantly in charge of the group.
In many ways reflective of how the world responded to the COVID-19 outbreak it highlights that we as a community could have learned much from that experience.
This is a pandemic novel and written in 2022 carries all the experiences, learnings and failures that that period held. There is an out break of plague (infact its THE plague) but its not an outbreak/zombie book. No shade on anyone else that's one of my favorite genres but this isn't one of those stories. This one begins a few days before the outbreak at The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center. We meet the teens dumped there and how they respond as they learn they are abandoned by their private company, guards and adults and when they try to leave are met with a police barricade enforcing a lockdown. How they try to organise, develop and survive is the story.
Told from three points of view: Logan, who communicates via a sign language she and her twin sister developed between them; Emerson, a new resident of Hope who’s also nonbinary; and Grace, a girl with some big anger issues who winds up reluctantly in charge of the group.
In many ways reflective of how the world responded to the COVID-19 outbreak it highlights that we as a community could have learned much from that experience.