Review: a breath of fresh air in the science fiction genre
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
****I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review for the blog tour.****I loved what I read from the synopsis of Children of the Plague. I just didn't know how much I would end up loving the book! There's so much more to this story than I thought there would be. At first, I couldn't decide whether people were turning into zombies or aliens or turning into zombies being controlled by aliens. I liked not being certain of what was going on in the beginning - it made everything that much more eerie, and eerie is what I like.Lanni and Alex are fourteen-year-old twins, yet I think they seemed older. I guess you have to grow up pretty quickly though when faced with the kind of plague they're battling. Lanni is a character easy to connect with and care about while Alex was confusing to me. Lanni mentioned he was sick, but I wasn't sure if it was from the plague or before the plague. I never connected with him because I didn't get a full picture of who he is.I love science fiction and apocalyptic tales, and I think the author did an excellent job handling the science fiction aspect. If you tend to shy away from this genre because it can be filled with terms and ideas that are hard to keep up with, then you should still read this book because this isn't the case here. I had no trouble keeping up with the story line. Children of the Plague is a unique and fresh breath of air into the science fiction genre.This world the author has built is scary - aliens have taken over, most of the world's population has been decimated leaving only a small number of human survivors, and if you've survived up until now, there's always the chance you might be drained of all your memories until you're nothing more than a husk. A range of different nightmarish creatures are running around, hunting down any humans still left, and there are some violent death scenes. The parts that really frightened me were not knowing what some of the creatures were and how they killed, not to mention being "drained" of my knowledge and memories.On a side note, while I was reading this book, late at night I might add, a pounding at my bedroom door made me jump ten feet in the air until I realized one of my cats was trying to get in. My heart rate took over ten minutes to return to normal - that's how scared I was!I'm interested to read the author's other books. He writes in an engaging way and with the world he has created in this novel, I'm looking forward to the worlds he has created for his other novels.