The day began as a beautiful and vivid dream. It was one of those rare days when the sun was out, and the light was soft and warm, Easter yellow. We were in the garden, just my mother and me; Mary had gone out with father, but my mother was eight months pregnant and tired, so I had stayed to keep her company.
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#12BooksOf2025 Book 3: Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
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pickA dystopian world, where alpha&omega twins are interconnected despite their social& physical differences. Cass and Zach are twins who were linked together longer than most, but her Seer powers finally reveal itself and she‘s cast away. As Zach moves up the council ranks, she becomes repressed further away in the Keeping Rooms& discovers the tanks. She breaks away with Kip to the Omega escape at the island, which is eventually found by the Alphas.
pickA hauntingly claustrophobic read with an unreliable protagonist who has been living alone in a secluded area after a pandemic sweeps the nation, causing eye contact to drive people to into mindless homicidal rages. And then one day, Riley meets a man in the woods - a new neighbour - and things start to unravel or maybe the unraveling simply speeds up?
This was a short and snappy read because one just simply needed to know what was happening!!
I‘m sad to finish this 7-book post-apocalyptic series but I loved seeing the transformation of each character, the formed relationships, their resilience, and the found-family they discovered amongst each other.
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pickJones always has something interesting to say and this book is no exception. This is a zombie story but it is also a book about the church and the military vying to be THE authority in a post-apocalyptic zombie-invested world, the military-industrial complex, good and evil, hope and despair and the will to survive even when the possibility seems unlikely. Not my favorite of his books but still a well-written, entertaining read.
