Review: Wonderful trilogy - one of the best I've read this year
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
The Starborn Uprising is a wonderful trilogy written by Jason D. Morrow.  Set 60 years after a virus mutated some human into "greyskins", you are first introduced to Mora in the first book, a nineteen year old girl from the village of Springhill.  Springhill is often under attack by the greyskins, who will turn you into one of them if you are scratched or bitten. Their only hope seems to be to go to Jeremiah of Screven for protection. For 80% of your food/production, Screven will protect your village from attacking mobs of greyskins.While this is in fact a "zombie" series, in that the greyskins turn you into one by getting their saliva into you, it doesn't read like a zombie book.  It's a survival story. The people in this story are trying to stay alive, and also trying to free themselves from a regime they feel has too much power.In come the Starborn, people who have powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, fire, premonition, speed, strength, health, etc. The leader of the colonies, Jeremiah, wants to collect these Starborn, but for what reason?This trilogy is the story of people struggling against evil without knowing, at first, what that evil is. Reading this gave me hope for humanity; Even though there will always be evil and selfish people out there, there are also people who will help with nothing asked in return.  It's a battle about good and evil, and shows that evil can be closer to home than you realize, and may be hidden behind a smiling face.