I’ve been a busy little reader lately. I’m currently tackling DUNE (I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to get to it), and I’ll be back with my take on the Sci-Fi classic later (much, much later).
Right now, my recommendations are all about vampire pandemics and genetically altered teens.
THE PASSAGE by Justin Cronin
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
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I actually started The Passage years ago, but stopped reading the book right after a pivotal moment. Not that I wasn’t enjoying the book, I was. I just inexplicably stopped. I had always meant to get back to it. So when I was looking for a new audiobook, I immediately thought it would be a perfect one to listen to.
I was right.
The Passage takes the vampire myth to a whole new pandemic level. Justin Cronin brilliantly blends a journalistic style with his compelling narrative that’s both grounded and epic. It’s the World War Z of vamp novels, and I dig it!
The Pursuit of Truth (a.k.a Renegades) by Aaron Hodges
Liz and Chris have survived Doctor Halt’s horrifying experiments and escaped the facility.
If only their freedom hadn’t come at such a cost. Friends were left behind, and the government’s hunters are hot on their tails.
It only seems a matter of time before they’re returned to their cages – literally.
Except these renegades are no longer innocent teenagers. Their physiology has been altered – granting them superhuman abilities – and they have already been forced to kill. The public sees them as traitors, but perhaps if they reveal the truth, Liz and Chris might just stand a chance against the all-powerful government.
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Since my review of Rebirth, The Praegressus Project series has gotten a major overhaul — new covers and new titles (hence the side-by-side image above), same great story. Now dubbed The Genome Project, the second book in this highly entertaining series is The Pursuit of Truth (a.k.a. Renegades). Reminiscent of the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson, The Genome Project tells the tale of a group of genetically altered teens made for war. But not all is as it seems. And these winged warriors aren’t about to fold up their feathers…not until they get their friends back and find the truth.
This is one action-packed science fiction series that you’ll gobbled up.
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