Release Date: 24 January 2012 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher via NetGalley
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Goodreads description:
It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in.
And then you're dead.
When a deadly virus begins to sweep through sixteen-year-old Kaelyn’s community, the government quarantines her island—no one can leave, and no one can come back.
Those still healthy must fight for dwindling supplies, or lose all chance of survival. As everything familiar comes crashing down, Kaelyn joins forces with a former rival and discovers a new love in the midst of heartbreak. When the virus starts to rob her of friends and family, she clings to the belief that there must be a way to save the people she holds dearest.
Because how will she go on if there isn't?
My Thoughts...
**Can I just start by saying that many people have called this a dystopian in their reviews and I think that creates an unfair expectation for this novel. In my opinion, this is much more apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic novel than it is dystopian and even then that label implies something bigger than this is (at this point in the series anyway). It is about a disease that ravages an island community and is basically abandoned by the government.**
**Can I just start by saying that many people have called this a dystopian in their reviews and I think that creates an unfair expectation for this novel. In my opinion, this is much more apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic novel than it is dystopian and even then that label implies something bigger than this is (at this point in the series anyway). It is about a disease that ravages an island community and is basically abandoned by the government.**
