Predictable. ( )

This book is phenomenal. I love seeing authors make a dystopian world blend so closely to our reality. Walters has created a complete world, brutally real and honest, and it's creepy just how easily this could happen... makes me wonder, what if this happened to us. Would we survive? Would I survive?

Really looking forward to book 3!! ( )

Rating: 3.8 / 5

This is the second book in this series, please have read the first book before reading this book (or this review). The book picks back up at the end of an action scene from the first book, but also does a nice recap of the first book.

"What a thought. Did any of us really appreciate something until it was gone?"

Numerous periods of time are skipped over, which could have been done to not bore the reader, but didn't indicate how much time has passed.

"there’s a basic human need for things to be normal and predictable"

It's interesting how many things (like small talk) stop happening when you see someone multiple times per day, when your all trying to survive. And how people can change over a length of time.

“So this wasn’t a social visit.”
“Nope.”

At multiple points, there could have been a different story line. It's interesting why the author kept the story line they did.

The book does get emotional at multiple times, especially near the end. Once you get near that ending you will want to keep reading.

“I don’t think you’re helpless … just special … too special to put at risk.”
“I know that was supposed to be a compliment, but I’m just as capable as you out here, probably more so with a gun.”

The book does end on a cliffhanger.

"Safe might never happen again." ( )

Really good. ( )

ontinuation of Adam Daley's story, surviving the sudden computer /electrical grid "blackout" worldwide with his family, friends and neighbors in Eden Mills, now fortified & organized to withstand months -will it be years?- of chaos. Walters first book moved at a fairly fast pace, full of dramatic dangers, told through the point of view of high schooler Adam, but also realistic about the uncertainties of their choices, and moral challenges: how will they survive? what if they can't save others? will they kill others to defend their conclave? For teen readers who like this sort of speculative - what would I do if this happened? -fiction, it's engaging enough, although not as well written as I'd like. The dialogue particularly gets in the way of the pacing. But this second book doesn't disappoint with the plot twists and turns. As I suspected (foreshadowed quite a bit in book 1) the brash, brave to the point of foolhardiness Brett, one of the rookie policemen working for his police captain mother, emerges as a major player in book 2. And a surprise at the end - a character we've been wondering about since the blackout appears- should satisfy readers who've impatiently wanted to know the answer. ( )