Navarro plays with this ultimate horror plot by imbuing her good guys with psychic powers while, by the end, the bad guys seem to be turning into pseudo-vampires, werewolves, cannibals, and psycho killers. But that all comes later. Blind and orphaned Indian-Mexican Gena can foretell the future. Simon Chanowitz can read minds. He grows up to be a social worker who tries to stop the kind of abuse he suffered as a child.
Mercy is a part Chinese, part Jewish healer who becomes a doctor.
Black Lamont, is a lawyer with telekinetic powers. Best of all we meet Lily, a deranged punk bitch who Mercy heals and who, assisted by the knives up her black leather sleeves, is smart enough and tough enough to manage the world on her own, but loyal enough and fragile enough to love. For a disaster novel to work, the reader must have people to care about, to root for and who have some hope of surviving in what is an otherwise hopeless situation. Navarro gives us that right from page one and sustains it through 469 pages. She gives us detailed backgrounds for each of the four main characters and introduces six of the eight secondary characters even before we find out anything about the rogue planet Millennium.