Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality!

Audience: Adult

Format: Audiobook/Owned

The bucks have all been passed and the arguments thrashed out until they don't even bleed anymore.

- first sentence

This book is a prequel set in the same world as The Girl With all the Gifts. A group of soldiers and scientists are traveling in the Rosalind Franklin (an armored motor home set up as a mobile research station); their mission is to find data that might lead to a cure for the Hungry plague. In addition to the soldiers and scientists, there's a teenage boy genius, Stephen who seems to be on the autistic spectrum. He developed the e-blocker that keeps the hungries from smelling humans in both this book and GWATG.

If you haven't read Girl With all the Gifts, you should definitely read it first. This book isn't quite as good but I still enjoyed it. The scope of this book is much smaller than GWATG, and we already know some of the information that this team is gradually discovering. But it was interesting to see what happened to leave the Rosalind FrankIin where the team in GWATG will eventually find it. I loved listening to the audio because of the narrator's British (?) accent which fits in perfectly with the story.

The epilogue was a bit jarring. I don't want to give anything away, I just didn't get why Carey would go there with the ending.