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Code Red
In the exciting sequel to young adult eco-thriller, Code Blue, Atlantic (Tic) Brewer returns to the North East Science Academy where she and her fellow students are racing against the clock to save civilization from the results of the Change.
Tic wants nothing more than to study and hang with her friends and do her best to forget the events of the last few months, especially her time in the North Atlantic on board the Joshua. But things go from bad to worse for Tic. She is more than relieved to get away from school and relax with Uncle Al and his family, even amidst the constant threat of wildfires.
But Tic just can't seem to stay out of trouble. When her past catches up with her, it will take help from all her friends for Tic to survive and figure out what or who is behind the Change.
Far from your typical boarding-school adventure, Code Blue and Code Red challenges readers with questions relevant to our time.
Tic wants nothing more than to study and hang with her friends and do her best to forget the events of the last few months, especially her time in the North Atlantic on board the Joshua. But things go from bad to worse for Tic. She is more than relieved to get away from school and relax with Uncle Al and his family, even amidst the constant threat of wildfires.
But Tic just can't seem to stay out of trouble. When her past catches up with her, it will take help from all her friends for Tic to survive and figure out what or who is behind the Change.
Far from your typical boarding-school adventure, Code Blue and Code Red challenges readers with questions relevant to our time.
267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2021
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September 2, 2025
“How did this get to be normal? How were the generations before us so stupid and selfish?”
CODE RED picks up precisely where CODE BLUE left off in a world where, at last and perhaps, ultimately too late, mankind has come to grips with the reality of human-caused global warming and the existential threat to humanity posed by the past use of carbon-based fossil fuels. Catastrophic sea level rise is a reality and the shape of the world’s coastlines is changing daily. That entire coastline, such as it appears in the short term, is a dangerous place and is carefully guarded by a fence. Those who live close to the coast do so at their peril. Category 4 and 5 hurricanes and tornadoes, wildfires and natural disasters related to the climate are almost a daily reality. Scientists are in a death race with the results of having ignored the problem until it is now clearly too late. The most they can hope for with even the most dedicated efforts is to slow down the damage and decelerate the inevitable. Special schools for academically gifted young people are dedicated to the education of future scientists who will be tasked with continuing to fight what appears to be a lost battle.
CODE BLUE was a satisfying mystery and a cautionary tale about global warming that obviously mourns the fact we may already be beyond the point of no return in our real world. It was a heart-warming coming of age story replete with the typical teenage angst about school, sex and sexuality, friends, family, testing boundaries and simply being one of the crowd. CODE RED, on the other hand, moves out of basic young adult and more into the category of mainstream thriller. AgroNite, a purely profit-driven mega agro-corporation (think Monsanto or ADM) teams up with The Chosen, a secret hard-core right wing religious group (think US-based Evangelical Christianity), convinced that combating global climate change is flying in the face of an inscrutable and undeniable God’s will. Meanwhile, back on the ranch, a little closer to the young adult front which author Slaven is quickly leaving behind her, Tic Brewer is struggling with her hormones’ electric reactions insisting on an inability to choose between two different young men.
CODE RED is an enjoyable and quite compulsively readable thriller. Save for the depiction of the two villains of the piece whose behaviour and dialogue (for my money, at least) were predictable and stereotypical to the point of being cartoonish, CODE RED would have been an undeniable five-star winner. On the other hand, Tic Brewer’s no-holds-barred reactions and no-fooling-around struggle to escape from her predicament in the closing chapters were positively brilliant, straight-forward, and shockingly blunt!
Well done, Ms Slaven. Can we look forward to a continuation in the series?
Paul Weiss
CODE RED picks up precisely where CODE BLUE left off in a world where, at last and perhaps, ultimately too late, mankind has come to grips with the reality of human-caused global warming and the existential threat to humanity posed by the past use of carbon-based fossil fuels. Catastrophic sea level rise is a reality and the shape of the world’s coastlines is changing daily. That entire coastline, such as it appears in the short term, is a dangerous place and is carefully guarded by a fence. Those who live close to the coast do so at their peril. Category 4 and 5 hurricanes and tornadoes, wildfires and natural disasters related to the climate are almost a daily reality. Scientists are in a death race with the results of having ignored the problem until it is now clearly too late. The most they can hope for with even the most dedicated efforts is to slow down the damage and decelerate the inevitable. Special schools for academically gifted young people are dedicated to the education of future scientists who will be tasked with continuing to fight what appears to be a lost battle.
CODE BLUE was a satisfying mystery and a cautionary tale about global warming that obviously mourns the fact we may already be beyond the point of no return in our real world. It was a heart-warming coming of age story replete with the typical teenage angst about school, sex and sexuality, friends, family, testing boundaries and simply being one of the crowd. CODE RED, on the other hand, moves out of basic young adult and more into the category of mainstream thriller. AgroNite, a purely profit-driven mega agro-corporation (think Monsanto or ADM) teams up with The Chosen, a secret hard-core right wing religious group (think US-based Evangelical Christianity), convinced that combating global climate change is flying in the face of an inscrutable and undeniable God’s will. Meanwhile, back on the ranch, a little closer to the young adult front which author Slaven is quickly leaving behind her, Tic Brewer is struggling with her hormones’ electric reactions insisting on an inability to choose between two different young men.
CODE RED is an enjoyable and quite compulsively readable thriller. Save for the depiction of the two villains of the piece whose behaviour and dialogue (for my money, at least) were predictable and stereotypical to the point of being cartoonish, CODE RED would have been an undeniable five-star winner. On the other hand, Tic Brewer’s no-holds-barred reactions and no-fooling-around struggle to escape from her predicament in the closing chapters were positively brilliant, straight-forward, and shockingly blunt!
Well done, Ms Slaven. Can we look forward to a continuation in the series?
Paul Weiss
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