In a world without power, trust is in short supply.
The kids have done well surviving, so far. Then, on New Year’s Eve, Ferris, Norianna, and Tayra were kicked back and enjoying themselves—and a knock on their door changed everything.
The younger friends they’d helped a month earlier were on their doorstep begging for help for Cass’s mother, who was desperately sick, or so the naive kids thought.
Once again, trying to help others got them in over their heads. There was a big surprise and a HUGE apparent betrayal, and things just kept going downhill from there until, forced to run for their lives, the kids had to pack up and search for a new home again.
It has been a bit since I read Book 3, so took me a minute to get reacquainted. This story moves along well, though there is often quite a bit of teenaged angst and emotions. They meet up with a neighborhood of experienced and seemingly capable people, but I found a couple of things a bit surprising. The new group noticed a late night truck drive by, but did not report it at their briefing; Ferris did. When checking out a sus house where there might be captives, the new group guys did not notice two guards at one house only; Ferris did. Hmmmm. There were also some editing issues, mostly things like missing/wrong punctuation. For some reason, I do like this group of young people, so look forward to book 5.
Plots are great and action ensues. Love his characters. He has crumb bums, druggies, thieves, military, children, and women all wonderfully depicted. I always want the next book fast.