Publisher: ECW Press
Copyright: 2021
ISBN: 9781770415935
This book was recommended to me by a member of a group that I frequent and I was interested in reading it because I happen to work at the University of Alberta in the building where the story takes place. In this case of Biological Sciences Building.
The Biological Sciences Building does have a bit of a reputation on campus as being very strange, however that doesn't really come into the story at all.
I found this to be an interesting story, however it was slightly difficult to read in that it is written in first person and there wasn't a whole lot of background / world building information supplied to the reader. It is mentioned that there is no power, and people are cooking over open fires, etc. but that's about it.
The story takes place in a post apocalyptic time in the city of Edmonton and the survivors, or at least one group of them live on the university campus (or what's left of it). The population of the Earth has been decimated, and climate change has made a great deal of the surface of the Earth uninhabitable, or at least that's the way I understand it. In addition there is some disease known as CAD, however what it is etc. is not really explained, but it is referred to as a fungal of infection of some kind, and it eventually kills its host.
The protagonist Reid, is a young girl in her teens who has been given the chance to leave campus/Edmonton for what seems to be a domed city where the hardships in the regular world have been eradicated, or less that's what is believed by most. But is it real, how will her mother survive, etc. are all questions she must ask herself and hopefully find answers for.
While this was an interesting book to read, it isn't the type of book I normally read. Because of this I will end my review of it here.
