Author: Rick Yancey
- Fiction
- RBA Libros
- ISBN: 9788427204225
- Release Date: 11-17-2014
Synopsis
From Barnes & Noble
After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. After the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth, only one rule applies: trust no one. Somehow, Cassie has survived and now she is running from monsters who look like humans. By this point, she knows that the only way to stay alive is to stay alone. But then she meets Evan Walker, the teenager behind the one pair of eyes that she can begin to trust.
The New York Times Book Review - Justin Cronin
…wildly entertaining…Just about everything here is borrowed from one venerable pop culture source or another, but it's a rip-roaring setup, and as the bodies accumulate, the pages turn themselves. It's hard to recall a novel—Y.A. or otherwise—in which more bad things happen to more good people in such a short span of time…it's a testament to Yancey's skill that for the duration of this grown-up's reading, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.
Publishers Weekly
Yancey makes a dramatic 180 from the intellectual horror of his Monstrumologist books to open a gripping SF trilogy about an Earth decimated by an alien invasion. The author fully embraces the genre, while resisting its more sensational tendencies (rest assured, though, there are firefights and explosions aplenty). A rare survivor of the invasion, 16-year-old Cassie, armed with an M16 rifle and her younger brother’s teddy bear, is trying to reunite with her brother and escape the “Silencer” (assassin) trying to kill her. Meanwhile, 17-year-old “Zombie,” an unwitting military recruit, is facing a crisis of conscience. The story’s biggest twists aren’t really surprises; the hints are there for readers to see. Yancey is more interested in examining how these world-shaking revelations affect characters who barely recognize what their lives have become. As in the Monstrum-ologist series, the question of what it means to be human is at the forefront—in the words of cartoonist Walt Kelly, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” It’s a book that targets a broad commercial audience, and Yancey’s aim is every bit as good as Cassie’s. Ages 14–up. Agent: Brian DeFiore, DeFiore and Co. (May)
