E B Heimdal

A terrible fog passes through the village bringing a disease with it that kills all adults. The children are left to fend for themselves, to survive on their own. Twins Ecco and Skye live off the forrest for five years before a turn of events sees Skye without her brother and her world is once again falling apart. In the forrest there are different groups/clans of children. Some are friendly, some are enemies, but who can Skye trust? When she wakes up in with a group of strangers, she has no idea that two of them will make a big influence on her life and steal her heart.

The book was hard for me to get into. I admit I initially found it a bit boring, and confusing. There are different clans/groups of children and it was very easy to get lost and confused about what group had done what, and who was who. I found myself having to go back and re-read pages, so that I could try and work out what was happening. Luckily the author has a reference at the start so you can go back and identify which character belonged to a group. I used this reference a number of times. At one point in the story Skye and Ecco have a big fight with another group to which I was thinking were boys from another group which turned out not to be the case and I was thinking the book was all sorts of strange. Once I re-read and used the reference and realised what actually did happen (which was nothing like I first thought had happened) I was able to keep reading and began to really enjoy the story. By the time I was about 50% of the way in, I had an understanding for the characters and was really looking forward to reading it each day. It isn't usually the type of book I would read, but I am glad I stuck to reading it and it turned into a really interesting and at times, edge of your seat story.

I received a copy of this book as an early review copy from LibraryThing, in exchange for an honest review. ( )… (mais)

A terrible fog passes through the village bringing a disease with it that kills all adults. The children are left to fend for themselves, to survive on their own. Twins Ecco and Skye live off the forrest for five years before a turn of events sees Skye without her brother and her world is once again falling apart. In the forrest there are different groups/clans of children. Some are friendly, some are enemies, but who can Skye trust? When she wakes up in with a group of strangers, she has no idea that two of them will make a big influence on her life and steal her heart.

The book was hard for me to get into. I admit I initially found it a bit boring, and confusing. There are different clans/groups of children and it was very easy to get lost and confused about what group had done what, and who was who. I found myself having to go back and re-read pages, so that I could try and work out what was happening. Luckily the author has a reference at the start so you can go back and identify which character belonged to a group. I used this reference a number of times. At one point in the story Skye and Ecco have a big fight with another group to which I was thinking were boys from another group which turned out not to be the case and I was thinking the book was all sorts of strange. Once I re-read and used the reference and realised what actually did happen (which was nothing like I first thought had happened) I was able to keep reading and began to really enjoy the story. By the time I was about 50% of the way in, I had an understanding for the characters and was really looking forward to reading it each day. It isn't usually the type of book I would read, but I am glad I stuck to reading it and it turned into a really interesting and at times, edge of your seat story.

I received a copy of this book as an early review copy from LibraryThing, in exchange for an honest review. ( )… (mais)