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In a world devastated by antimicrobial resistance, two survivors are thrown into crisis when a woman washes ashore on the remote island where they live.
Years after complete antibiotic resistance has resulted in the loss of most human life on earth, Kit and Crevan eke out an existence on a remote island. Under a collapsing castle, they spend their days in an underground bunker packed with emergency stores, venturing out only at night. They are safe.
One evening a woman washes ashore, nearly drowned. Crevan wants to keep her alive, but Kit isn't so sure.
The new arrival will implode Kit and Crevan's world with dire and fatal consequences, churning up the waters of the past and unearthing secrets they have kept from each other and from themselves. Who is really in control – and what are they both capable of doing to protect their haven?
Years after complete antibiotic resistance has resulted in the loss of most human life on earth, Kit and Crevan eke out an existence on a remote island. Under a collapsing castle, they spend their days in an underground bunker packed with emergency stores, venturing out only at night. They are safe.
One evening a woman washes ashore, nearly drowned. Crevan wants to keep her alive, but Kit isn't so sure.
The new arrival will implode Kit and Crevan's world with dire and fatal consequences, churning up the waters of the past and unearthing secrets they have kept from each other and from themselves. Who is really in control – and what are they both capable of doing to protect their haven?
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July 30, 2025
The narrator of this story is neurodivergent and not palatable, so I don't expect neurotypical readers to understand her. However I found myself deeply relating to her, and the mystery of the bunker she lived in kept me reading as we got more clues as to what was really going on.
November 4, 2024
This was absolutely amazing
March 27, 2025
4.5 ⭐️
I really enjoyed this book. The prose kept the pace of the book interesting and the narrator quite mysterious and childlike. I loved the structure and repetition of words, I thought the writing style was unique so this made it an enjoyable read.
Felt the ending was missing something. I wish there’d been more strain on Kit and Crevans relationship as the blurb suggests, I thought it was quite tame to be honest and expected more to come of the “treachery”. Although, in other ways I suppose maybe that’s the point.
Edit:
The more I’m thinking about it the more I’m wondering if the lack of trust is supposed to be between the narrator and the reader, she does repeatedly mention how it’s her and crevan over and over so maybe the point isn’t the breakdown of trust between the protagonists but between yourself and Kit ??? She only lets the reader in once she knows she’s lost Crevan, interesting.
I really enjoyed this book. The prose kept the pace of the book interesting and the narrator quite mysterious and childlike. I loved the structure and repetition of words, I thought the writing style was unique so this made it an enjoyable read.
Felt the ending was missing something. I wish there’d been more strain on Kit and Crevans relationship as the blurb suggests, I thought it was quite tame to be honest and expected more to come of the “treachery”. Although, in other ways I suppose maybe that’s the point.
Edit:
The more I’m thinking about it the more I’m wondering if the lack of trust is supposed to be between the narrator and the reader, she does repeatedly mention how it’s her and crevan over and over so maybe the point isn’t the breakdown of trust between the protagonists but between yourself and Kit ??? She only lets the reader in once she knows she’s lost Crevan, interesting.
April 3, 2025
I honestly have no clue what I just read. The first person pov of Nikita is also very annoying and chaotic. You learn nothing about her. She seems childish yet drinks coffee... man, this whole book was a massive clusterf*ck and I don't know what happened. Good luck to anyone reading this book!
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