Ashes – Ilisa J Brick

Posted August 5, 2011 by Shannon in Reviews / 0 Comments

Β It could happen tomorrow…

A cataclysmic event. An army of “The Changed.”
Can one teen really survive on her own?

An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky, destroying every electronic device and killing billions. For those spared, it’s a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human…

Desperate to find out what happened and to avoid the Changed, Alex meets up with Tom—a young army veteran—and Ellie, a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse.

This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to survive.

Will you be Spared, or will you Change?

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β€œThe Zap”, as Alex calls it.Β  Searing pain in her head, people drop dead for no apparent reason, and normal people turn feral.Β  Feral, as in eating other people like a slice of triple chocolate, chocolate cake, or a delicious cheeseburger, with all the best toppings, after a long, tiring day.Β  Ashes, by Ilisa J. Bick, is THE perfect name for this book.Β  It’s ominous start gets you curious about Alex, the main character, and what will happen.Β  The title also connects to Alex and getting to know a bit more about her.Β  It gets a little slow, then it picks up near the middle of the beginning.Β  It is a perfect mix of every genre.Β  Romance?Β  Check!Β  Action and excitement?Β  There isn’t one good doomsday book without any!Β  Fantasy?Β  This book wouldn’t be happening without it!Β  There is a little bit of language in it, but it makes it seem more realistic, as some people would have a foul mouth.

The author connects you to Alex, so that you share her feelings, her thoughts, her confusion and desperation. Her determination to fight back, to make her own decisions, her fear to let people know the two things about her that have changed the way she thought, felt, acted, lived, and how people react to her once they know, making her a character that everyone wants to win, to escape this nightmare that is life.Β  The ending is one of the most suspenseful I’ve come across, and I’ve read too many books to count, yet none have made me as crazy with suspense as this one has.Β  You will go crazy, just absolutely having to know what happens.

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I am a lover of alpha males with dirty mouths, strong heroines putting alpha males in their place, and the Chicago Blackhawks. I'm a proud hockey mom who can often be found at the hockey rink cheering on my favorite forward, with my kindle close by.