Stricken
Naomi doesn't expect anything unusual from
her annual family trip to visit her grandparents in Ireland. What she expects
is to celebrate her thirteenth birthday, hang out with her friends Ciara and
Shehan, and deal with her gran's Alzheimer's. What she finds is a country hit
by an unexpected virus that rapidly infects the majority of the Irish
population over the age of twenty-one.
Amnestic-Delirium Syndrome (ADS) starts off
with memory loss, but the virus soon turns its victims aggravated, blank, or
violent. Naomi and her friends must survive on their own, without lucid adults,
cut off from the rest of the world, until a cure is found.
But there are whispers that ADS is not
terrestrial, and soon Naomi and her friends learn the frightening truth: we are
not alone.
240 pages. Age Range: 9 - 12 years.
Published
November 4th 2017
by Dancing Cat Books
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Review : ♥ ♥ ♥
I'm putting Stricken in
the teen horror genre. It's a watered down version of a zombie virus
story. No one is dying but the adults are losing their memories. The
virus has been compared to Alzheimer's disease.
Naomi is visiting her grandparents in Ireland. Her family visit every year. She has made friends with some local teenagers and isn't expecting anything different from the previous years. There is a cute boy she likes but that's about as crazy as it may get.
When Naomi and her family arrive things start to get a little strange. A lot of people are beginning to suffer from memory loss. Eventually, patterns begin to form. Naomi and her friends seem to be ok and realise they need each other to survive. This is a mystery that slowly unravels. Something is out there but can the teens figure it out. This is a continuous story and is only the beginning.
I was expecting a post-apocalyptic read but this book was more focused on the virus taking hold of people. 3 stars out of 5. This book will best suit the teen intended audience.
*I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Naomi is visiting her grandparents in Ireland. Her family visit every year. She has made friends with some local teenagers and isn't expecting anything different from the previous years. There is a cute boy she likes but that's about as crazy as it may get.
When Naomi and her family arrive things start to get a little strange. A lot of people are beginning to suffer from memory loss. Eventually, patterns begin to form. Naomi and her friends seem to be ok and realise they need each other to survive. This is a mystery that slowly unravels. Something is out there but can the teens figure it out. This is a continuous story and is only the beginning.
I was expecting a post-apocalyptic read but this book was more focused on the virus taking hold of people. 3 stars out of 5. This book will best suit the teen intended audience.
*I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Long before I was an author I was a fan of
books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne Shirley and anything by Judy
Blume. Throughout high school my favourite class was English. No surprise,
then, that most of my time spent at York University in Toronto was as an
English major—not the traditional way to graduate with a B.A. (Hons) in film
studies but a fine way to get a general arts education.
After getting my film studies degree I
headed for Dublin, Ireland and spent the majority of the nineties there in
forgettable jobs meeting unforgettable people and enjoying the buzz. I always
believed I'd get around to writing in earnest eventually, and I began writing
my first novel in a flat in Dublin and finished it in a Toronto suburb. By then
I'd discovered that fiction about young people felt the freshest and most
exciting to me. You have most of your life to be an adult but you only grow up
once.
Currently residing near Toronto with my Dub
husband, I'm an aunt to twenty-one nieces and nephews, and a great-aunt to two
great-nephews. I became an Irish citizen in 2001 and continue to visit Dublin
as often as I can while working on novels about young people.
My first young adult book, I Know It's
Over, came out with Random House in September 2008, and was followed by One
Lonely Degree, The Lighter Side of Life and Death, My Beating Teenage Heart and
sci-fi thriller Yesterday. I released Yesterday's sequel, Tomorrow, in 2013 and
put out my first adult novel, Come See About Me, as an ebook in June 2012. My
most recent contemporary YA books, The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing and
Delicate, were published by Cormorant Books' Dancing Cat Books imprint in 2014
and 2015.
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