6/22/2023 0 Comments Ilsa j bick booksBut then things change as pressure on the world increases, the trio are separated and Alex experiences the mayhem that the World has become. Old people either die immediately or are rejuvinated.Īlex meets Ellie and ex soldier Tom and together they survive quite well. Teenagers either develop super senses as Alex does and some become flesh eating maniac zombies. The pulse has changed people in different ways depending it seems on the hormonal balance of the body. The cities are destroyed to ashes and the civilisation that remains is reduced to survival mode and being America the very worst and best of human qualities is exposed. The EMP cuts all solid state and computer operated machines so that communication is destroyed. She goes walkabout in the forests near the Great Lakes to think things over and after meeting an 8 year old brat Ellie and her grandfather an Earth shattering thing happens that changes things for ever.Īn electromagnetic pulse, EMP, of unknown origin, zaps the World, killing millions and changing young people and old people into something they were not before. Seventeen year old Alex has lost her parents and been diagnosed as having an inoperable tumour on the brain that has already taken away her sense of smell and taste. Quercus, 2011.Īn absorbing read this, perhaps a bit long, but dealing with some pretty raw material.
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