Harper Collins, 2012
375 pgs.
for: YA
Rating: Loved it - even more, actually quite a bit more, than Delirium!
1st line/s: "Alex and I are lying together on a blanket in the backyard of 37 Brooks. The trees look larger and darker than usual. The leaves are almost black, knitted so tightly together they blot out the sky." (This is a dream)
Setting: Dystopian NYC and the outlying woods from NH south to CT.
OSS: Shifting back and forth between "Now" and "Then", Lena tells the story of how she came back to life after becoming a Invalid and losing Alex, and her time now as a Resistance fighter in NYC, where she is kidnapped with Julian, a young man who is the symbol of everything she abhors.
Lena is discovered in the woods by the leader of a small group of homesteaders lead by a determined 21-year-old named Raven. Raven teachers her to be strong. As winter approaches and they have to migrate to the south, all sorts of hardships...and friendships....form. Six months later Lena is infiltrated into NYC where she is working with other Resistance members to keep their eyes on what's going on and doing whatever the DFA - a particularly earnest group that are willing to do ANYTHING to keep the "cured" regime going. No love. No feelings. ZOMBIES, as Lena calls them. She's becoming quite brave, pretty savvy, and very likable. This was a really good story --- with an ending that BEGS the next book to come quickly!
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