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Plagued
There are no zombies in this apocalypse, but there are monsters here.
In sixteen-year-old Skylar Christensen's America, Negative is good. Positive is bad. In fact, being Negative is the only way to survive. One half to two thirds of the entire world population have been wiped out in the blood plagues following the bird flu pandemic. Only Negatives, people with negative blood types, are immune.
America needs Negatives for the military and the government, because they don't die. At least from the flu. That's not the only reason. The bird flu mutation that turns its victim's blood to toxic poison leaves Negatives – young and old – with enhanced senses, improved muscular development, and too often, something far more sinister. Something unexplainable by science.
Skylar, like every other Negatives her age, undergoes military training after school. Patrolling nightly for Hemogoblin blood gangs, profiteers, and Victims Army guerrillas. Life isn't so bad. After her mandatory ten-year government service, Skylar will be free to pursue her own ambitions. She has a future.
Hugo St. James changes that. Changes everything. Clever, smart, handsome, English aristocrat, Hugo. A positive blood type who probably won't survive the coming winter. A senior at her high school and suddenly very interested in her – for all the wrong reasons.
With Hugo comes so many first crush, first kiss, first love, first murder, first charge of high treason. Hugo throws Skylar's life into a firestorm of conflicting loyalties and danger as he forces her into the traitorous world of illegal blood dealers, international conspiracies, and government-bred genetic mutations.
Too late, she learns their families are tragically bound by a history of blood and death. The sins of their parents the real reason her generation is called the Plague Children.
In sixteen-year-old Skylar Christensen's America, Negative is good. Positive is bad. In fact, being Negative is the only way to survive. One half to two thirds of the entire world population have been wiped out in the blood plagues following the bird flu pandemic. Only Negatives, people with negative blood types, are immune.
America needs Negatives for the military and the government, because they don't die. At least from the flu. That's not the only reason. The bird flu mutation that turns its victim's blood to toxic poison leaves Negatives – young and old – with enhanced senses, improved muscular development, and too often, something far more sinister. Something unexplainable by science.
Skylar, like every other Negatives her age, undergoes military training after school. Patrolling nightly for Hemogoblin blood gangs, profiteers, and Victims Army guerrillas. Life isn't so bad. After her mandatory ten-year government service, Skylar will be free to pursue her own ambitions. She has a future.
Hugo St. James changes that. Changes everything. Clever, smart, handsome, English aristocrat, Hugo. A positive blood type who probably won't survive the coming winter. A senior at her high school and suddenly very interested in her – for all the wrong reasons.
With Hugo comes so many first crush, first kiss, first love, first murder, first charge of high treason. Hugo throws Skylar's life into a firestorm of conflicting loyalties and danger as he forces her into the traitorous world of illegal blood dealers, international conspiracies, and government-bred genetic mutations.
Too late, she learns their families are tragically bound by a history of blood and death. The sins of their parents the real reason her generation is called the Plague Children.
- GenresDystopia
287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 26, 2015
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Eden Crowne
30 books22 followersEden Crowne is from San Francisco, California. In her other life, she is an international journalist writing on technology, pop culture, trends, and travel in Asia. She calls Tokyo, Vienna, London and L.A. home. She loves traveling, champagne, hanging out with her kids, espresso at sidewalk cafes, people watching, really fast express trains, and laughing like crazy – though not always in that order.
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February 19, 2015
This is a great Zombie book and I love twists and turns this book has in it. If you like to read about zombies you should check this one out. I will read the next one.
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