Title: H10N1
Author: M.R. Cornelius
Published: April 12th 2011
Fromat: Kindle Edition
Pages: 236
BOOK DESCRIPTION
H10N1
A deadly influenza virus rages out of control. There is no easy-fix vaccine. No eleventh-hour containment. Only death. With no workforce, power plants have been shut down, police and fire departments have collapsed, crops lie unpicked in the fields.
When Dr. Taeya Sanchez finds herself unceremoniously dismissed from an emergency medical facility in New York, she decides to steal the hospital's armored van for a midnight escape. Unfortunately, Rick DeAngelo, a driver for the hospital, has already stocked the van for his own getaway.
Thrown into an unfriendly alliance, these two must pick their way across the dangerous wasteland of America in search of a safe haven. And as the miles roll by, they discover that the living should be feared much more than the festering corpses out there.
MY REVIEW
H10N1
The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I first purchased a copy of H10N1 from Amazon with my husband's account before having an account of my own. After getting my own account with Amazon I downloaded it from Amazon as a free download.
Dr. Taeya Sanchez works for the CDC and when the flu virus H10N1 started spreading all across the world. The virus is believed to have started in North Korea. Taeya while working for the CDC has been stationed at a New York hospital the only one still in operation. Her job is to sort out the patients that may or may not survive. Taeya goes head to head with her boss because of what he says is best for the patients that Taeya doesn't agree with. When she is dismiss from her duties she knows it is a matter before she is fired. She is no mood to wait for that confrontation much less the consequences. So she decides to pack her bags and as they say "get the hell out of dodge". She has a friend who lives in an experimental bio dome in Arizona. Her friend is a member of a scientific team who all live in the dome trying to stay alive.
Taeya never expects to run into anyone when she makes her escape at midnight but she runs into a guy, Rick DeAngelo who drives a truck for the hospital looking for supplies and whatever else you make need. Rick has been planning his trip for a while now gathering up all the supplies he will need for his trip across country to his friends place in Arkansas who live off the land. Rick and Taeya are not happy at all about their meeting under the circumstances. But Rick can't bring himself to leave her to her own defenses knowing what he does about the people who are in charge at the hospital. He knows they will track her down and bring her back.
Rick and Taeya make their journey across the country not fighting zombies as with most apocalyptic novels but they do have to fight the ones who are still alive. Fighting for their own lives in some cases as well as fighting for their supplies and weapons. Rick and Taeya for the most part are usually bickering back and forth among themselves. They each have their own things in their past that they each have to deal with in their own way. But they each have to lean on the other one to stay alive. In a world where you don't know who you can trust you still have to have someone who will cover your back for you.
I absolutely enjoyed reading H10N1 it is an amazing novel about the apocalyptic. I loved reading that world ended with a virus and not a zombie outbreak. Now don't get me wrong I still love me some zombies but H10N1 was a refreshing breath taker that keeps you turning those pages as fast as possible. I loved the bio dome and all their experiments and that each person had their own job or part that they had to do to help out and earn their way.
While I am pretty sure the world would not end with zombies but is possible. I do believe that the world could end with a flu virus or any type of virus as bio weapon or just as an outbreak weather by accident or not. If the world did end with a virus then I think that there would be looters and thieves whom we would have to defend ourselves from just as M.R. Cornelius has written it in H10N1.
If you have not read H10N1 then I highly suggest that you do that is if you like reading apocalyptic books. Well even if you don't and have been considering it then H10N1 would be a great book to start with. I know M.R. Cornelius has thoroughly did her research on viruses among other things in writing H10N1 and who knows you may just learn something while reading a great book.
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