Pale Horse

Baited Breath. This book picks up immediately where EXIT 9 left off and covers just the next two days - the first two days of the Apocalypse. Another global tale, yet Battles also manages to weave in three distinct families - the Ashes, obviously, but also one in India and one that we met during SICK - to make this tale both global and personal. The countdown isn't as effective in this book as it was in EXIT 9, but the overall tale is arguably a bit stronger even without it, due to giving an even wider global scale while also making it, as noted, so intensely personal. The very last paragraph, well... Excellent book, and looking forward to diving straight into ASHES.