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Day Zero
Day Zero | Kelly Devos
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Dont miss the exhilarating new novel from the author of Fat Girl on a Plane, featuring a fierce, bold heroine who will fight for her family and do whatever it takes to survive. Fans of Susan Beth Pfeffers Life As We Knew It series and Rick Yanceys The 5th Wave series will cheer for this fast-paced, near-future thrill ride. If youre going through hellkeep going. Seventeen-year-old coder Jinx Marshall grew up spending weekends drilling with her paranoid dad for a doomsday shes sure will never come. Shes an expert on self-heating meal rations, Krav Maga and extracting water from a barrel cactus. Now that her parents are divorced, shes ready to relax. Her big plans include making it to level 99 in her favorite MMORPG and spending the weekend with her new hunky stepbrother, Toby. But all that disaster training comes in handy when an explosion traps her in a burning building. Stuck leading her headstrong stepsister, MacKenna, and her precocious little brother, Charles, to safety, Jinx gets them out alive only to discover the explosion is part of a pattern of violence erupting all over the country. Even worse, Jinxs dad stands accused of triggering the chaos. In a desperate attempt to evade paramilitary forces and vigilantes, Jinx and her siblings find Toby and make a break for Mexico. With seemingly the whole world working against them, theyve got to get along and search for the truth about the attacksand about each other. But if they can survive, will there be anything left worth surviving for?
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Thanks to Partner NetGalley for the egalley of Kelly deVos‘s Day Zero in exchange for an honest review. The book releases on November 12.⠀

“If you‘re going through hell, keep going” (loc. 3896).⠀

Day Zero, a near-future YA thriller, launches the reader into a frighteningly familiar world dominated by political conflict between two parties. The Opposition focuses on rugged individualism and oppose taxes on the rich, (continued in comments)

UnabridgedPod while The Spark embraces identity politics and using government to seek equality for all and to eradicate poverty. After the New Depression created unrest in the U.S., The Opposition took advantage of citizens‘ resentment to elect Ammon Carver to the Presidency, which he won with “money, influence, bigotry and hate” (loc. 941).⠀

Check out the rest of my review at http://www.unabridgedpod.com!
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Wow, I couldn't tear myself away from this whirlwind of intrigue and excitement. The pace is FAST, there are unexpected twists and turns, and I was shocked by what happens/is revealed near the end. There's an interesting focus on what motivates people to align themselves with various political movements, and that tension is intense without being overdone or too black-and-white. This ends on a cliffhanger, and I cannot wait for the second book!

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