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I can't believe how many books I'm reading this year. (My goal usually is 50 books per year.) I feel like I'm writing a review post every day.
The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle. What a unique story! Set in an Amish town, the main character Katie is about to go on her Rumspringa (time spent in the outside world so the teens can be sure if they want to stay Amish as adults) when basically the world ends. No one knows what exactly happened (bio-terrorism attack?), but suddenly almost all humans are gone and only things left are things that are sort of like vampires. Not the sexy, seductive, sparkly kind of vampires. Demon-like creatures.
While their little town is trying to deal with the disappearing of the outside world, Katie has to deal with her feelings of rebellion and the childhood friend who is intent on marrying her.
I don't think I've ever read a book set in the Amish world before, so that part of it was really interesting. There was more relationship drama than I would have liked, but Katie was a teenage girl, so it fit.
Luckily this book was published in 2012, so the next (and final, I think) book is out already. I'm going to be starting it soon.
Going Dark by Robison Wells. A novella instead of a full book. If it had been any longer, I would have DNFed it. A really generic and unoriginal "people with superpowers" origins story. How unoriginal was it? The chicken chain in it was named Pollos Hermanos. Not to be confused with Los Pollos Hermanos from Breaking Bad...
The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle. What a unique story! Set in an Amish town, the main character Katie is about to go on her Rumspringa (time spent in the outside world so the teens can be sure if they want to stay Amish as adults) when basically the world ends. No one knows what exactly happened (bio-terrorism attack?), but suddenly almost all humans are gone and only things left are things that are sort of like vampires. Not the sexy, seductive, sparkly kind of vampires. Demon-like creatures.
While their little town is trying to deal with the disappearing of the outside world, Katie has to deal with her feelings of rebellion and the childhood friend who is intent on marrying her.
I don't think I've ever read a book set in the Amish world before, so that part of it was really interesting. There was more relationship drama than I would have liked, but Katie was a teenage girl, so it fit.
Luckily this book was published in 2012, so the next (and final, I think) book is out already. I'm going to be starting it soon.
Going Dark by Robison Wells. A novella instead of a full book. If it had been any longer, I would have DNFed it. A really generic and unoriginal "people with superpowers" origins story. How unoriginal was it? The chicken chain in it was named Pollos Hermanos. Not to be confused with Los Pollos Hermanos from Breaking Bad...
