White Horse (Audiobook)

from Jeannine504

Slightly oversprinkled with metaphors and similies, but I loved it. Post-apocalyptic is not a genre I normally read, but the blurbs on the jacket were interesting so I pulled it off the library shelf. Finished it in one day and may read it again just to delight in the language and the sly literar...

from nbmars

This is Book One of a post-apocalyptic trilogy for adults. It's quite dark, and yet echoes of humanity shed occasional light on an otherwise bleak landscape. The story is told in alternating sections of “then” (before the apocalyptic events) and “now” – both in Zoe Marshall's voice. In “now,” ni...

from kraaivrouw

Dystopian/post-apocalyptic novels are all the rage the last few years. I suspect it's related in part to the economy and the sociopolitical landscape. The current world ain't what it was. Dystopian novels allow us to write through or read through the basic tension that underlies much of our lives...

from juniperSun

Scary, how humans can treat each other when things fall apart. I really liked Zoe, protagonist. She keeps in mind that "We don't have to be monsters. We still can choose." Premise: a pharmaceutical company's research project gets out of hand. The action moves between before & after, clearly marke...

from Twink

My secret passion is dystopian fiction. I usually indulge myself with young adult offerings, but the opening lines of Alex Adams' adult debut novel White Horse drew in and had me settled into my favourite reading nook (for a very long time) "When I wake, the world is still gone. Only fragments re...