Shadows by Ilsa Bick – Blog Tour

I’m super stoked to have Ilsa Bick on my blog today! I absolutely loved Ashes (my review is here) – it’s such a cool and original and seriously effed up twist on the typical kind of zombies and I was just wowed by it. And totally creeped out. So yes, I totally jumped on the chance to invite Ilsa Bick to my blog :) Look for my review in the next week or so!

Definitely check out this recap of the first part of Ashes – it’s awesome. I’m the kind of person who is terrible at remembering all the deets from previous books, so this will totally help me when I start Shadows!

Amazon | Goodreads | Author Website | Author TwitterThe Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive.

Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head. After the world was gone, she believed Rule could be a sanctuary for her and those she’d come to love.
But she was wrong.

Now Alex is in the fight of her life against the adults, who would use her, the survivors, who don’t trust her, and the Changed, who would eat her alive.

Welcome to Shadows, the second book in the haunting apocalyptic Ashes Trilogy: where no one is safe and humans may be the worst of the monsters. – Goodreads

Ilsa Bick, author of the Ashes Trilogy

So you read ASHES a year ago and . . .

Need a quick refresher, a synopsis of what’s going on? Well, you won’t get much in SHADOWS, but if you DO need to a memory-jog, read on.

If you haven’t read ASHES, shame on you. But don’t despair, you’ve got time.

In any event, BEWARE: spoilers ahead. Really, if you’ve not read ASHES, don’t go any further. Not only will you ruin the perfectly good time you might have had—because no synopsis can do justice to a novel—you will miss a lot of vital information that I can’t include.

Just saying.

The Zap: On what starts out to be a perfectly nice Saturday in October, a wave of e-bombs sends electromagnetic pulses sweeping through the sky. No one knows who did this, or why. In some ways, that’s not important. All that matters are the effects.

In an instant, the vast majority of the world’s adult population dies; power and communications grids are destroyed, and sophisticated electronics, crippled. (So that spiffy new iPad? It’s a brick.) Along the East and West Coasts, the detonation of low-altitude nukes above nuclear waste storage facilities, as well as other facilities going critical because backup generators do not kick in, spews fallout into the atmosphere, turning the moon green and the sunrises bloody. Everyone who might be able to fix anything is also history. In a flash, civilization collapses into a hellish, pre-industrial black hole.

Those still alive—the very young and the very old—must find a way to battle new enemies, not only fellow survivors organized into raiding parties and rigidly-ordered societies (like Rule, a very small, very insular village) but the Changed: teenagers you really don’t want to meet in a dark alley. Dogs are like canaries in a mine when it comes to the Changed: acutely sensitive and able to alert people to the Changed’s presence. There is also some suggestion that dogs know who is likely to or actively Changing.

A very few people have changed in a different way, developing super-senses that some are not afraid to use to their advantage. Still others are Spared, teenagers and young adults who should be dead but aren’t. No one knows why the Spared have survived, and without sophisticated computers, laboratories, or scientists, there’s really no way to find out. All kids are suddenly valuable commodities; the few Spared are also viewed with suspicion because no one is quite sure if the Change is over.

Many other, much older individuals with advanced Alzheimer’s or other senile dementias are suddenly Awakened, returning to their previous level of function.

And that is just the first half of the book! Stay tuned for later in the blog tour some more info!

Major thanks to Ilsa Bick for stopping by! I’m getting super amped to read Shadows!

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