Elixir
Red Plague Trilogy
Book One
Anna Abner
Genre: YA Paranormal
Publisher: Mild Red Books
ISBN: 978-0-001-40310-3
Number of pages: 200
Word Count: 50,000
Cover Artist: Sweet & Spicy Designs
Book Description:
The red plague has devastated the human race, turning billions of people into zombies with red eyes and an insatiable hunger for human flesh. The virus sweeps through the population so quickly a possible cure is left to rot. Seventeen-year-old Maya Solomon may be the only survivor who knows where it is. But to reach the lab in Raleigh, North Carolina she will have to outrun the infected boy tracking her every step and cross into a city swarming with monsters.
Excerpt:
A buzzing circular saw woke me five minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off. Instant, achy terror consumed me. I scrambled out of bed in my PJs and crouched at the end of the hall, peeking around the corner into the living room beyond the foyer.
"Dad?" I hissed.
He stood, hands on hips, in front of our big screen TV staring at local news.
I sagged against the wall in relief. For a moment I'd thought... But no. We weren't being attacked by red-eyed plague victims.
Dad hadn't heard me, but around and between his arms I watched the agitated news anchor struggle through her report.
"If you are in a heavily infected area," the hollow-eyed brunette read off the teleprompter, "you are instructed to shelter in place. Do not attempt to travel. Roads and highways are impassable, particularly in Raleigh and Charlotte. The safest thing for you to do is stay where you are. Lock your doors and windows and wait for further instruction."
A tiny hiccup of fright escaped my throat, and Dad whipped his head around. His normally slicked back blonde hair was dry and messy as if he hadn't bothered to comb it at all.
"Maya," he exclaimed, pasting on a friendly smile. But under the positive facade I could tell he was just as terrified as I was. The world was falling to pieces and we both knew it.
My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Maya is your average typical seventeen year old who has gone through a lot in the past couple of years. She has a twin brother Mason who shot and killed their mother and was sent away. The story never told anything about the murder or why he did it. Because of her mother being murdered Maya hates guns and is terrified of them. Maya lives in a world where people are dying and turning into zombies after getting the 212R virus. Her father is a chemist who is working on a cure for the virus. He tells Maya that there is cure and that is why he has to go to work every day even after the virus has made it to the city where he works.
Maya's dad has construction workers come in their home and turn the kitchen pantry into a room for the two of them to stay in until the virus runs its course. They stock up on food and water among other things that they will need to survive. Maya comes home one day to find that the virus has reached her neighborhood. Maya is chased by a zombie so she runs into to her little safe room where she shuts and locks the door. After about two weeks she runs out of water and other supplies and has to exit her little safe room and venture out into the world. When she comes out of her safe room she finds that almost everyone is gone or turned into zombies.
While Maya is out looking for water and food she runs into the zombies and they start chasing her. Maya has to run really fast because these zombies are very fast. It is a good thing that Maya was on the track team at her high school and was the third best runner. Maya knows that the zombies can't reach her if she gets up high because they can't climb. So she climbs up on top of a house. Then she looks down the street and sees a woman with a little girl and they are being chased by zombies. The woman and Maya help the little girl Hunny up on the roof with Maya but before the woman can climb up herself the zombies attack her.
Maya knows her and Hunny need to get off the roof while the zombies are preoccupied. She thinks they need to make it to the woods so they can hide but there is one little problem or should I say zombie standing between them and the woods but Maya figures she can out run one zombie so she takes off to the woods and helps Hunny climb up into a tree. Maya climbs on to a limb of the tree. Hunny gets scared of the zombie because he can reach the limb they are on. But when Maya tries to climb up to the limb that Hunny is on it starts to crack so she has no choice but to stay where she is. But the zombie doesn't bother them.
Maya starts thinking about what she is going to do and where she is going. She remembers her dad telling her that there was a cure for the virus. So she starts out on her journey with Hunny to her dad's office so she can retrieve the cure. On their journey Maya and Hunny run into more zombies and hide under a vehicle hoping that the zombies can't get to them. But they are saved by a zombie. The zombie has on a work uniform with the name Ben on it so Maya assumes that this is his name and starts to call him Ben. Ben follows Maya and Hunny on their journey to get the cure for the virus. Ben watches over and takes care of Maya and Hunny.
Maya has always kind of been a loner and plans on leaving Hunny with the first group of people they run into. But she is in for a surprise when they finally do find other people. Maya makes her plans to leave as soon as she can and without Hunny even though she has come to care for her and is becoming attached to her. Maya has been through so much with losing her mother that she can't or won't let herself feel anything in her heart for anybody else. She is probably afraid that if she lets anyone else into her heart that she will lose them too. She doesn't even know if her dad or brother has survived or not. But Pollard the leader of this group of people wants to take care of Maya and everyone else too but especially Maya.
Elixir is one of the very best books about zombies that I have read in a long time. It is definitely way different than any other zombie book that I have ever read. If you love reading about zombies and the apocalyptic then Elixir is the book for you. Elixir is one of those books that keeps you on the edge of your seat just turning or should I say scrolling those pages as fast as you can. I loved it and can't wait for the next book in the series.
About The Author:
One of my first memories is dangling over the arm of our living room sofa telling myself a post-apocalyptic survival tale in which my mother and I were the last two people on earth. It was so fun, I never stopped telling stories. In high school, I faked being ill so I could stay home to work on a novel about a nanny who falls in love with her boss' bad boy nephew.
As an adult I earned a college degree, got married, and had a child, but I never stopped writing. It only got more fun. I wrote through my lunch breaks at work. I wrote on the treadmill at the gym. Eventually, I had dozens of short stories, novellas, and full-length novels piling up on thumb drives and in plastic tubs.
Now, I'm ready to share my stories with you, starting with The Dark Caster Series and the Red Plague Trilogy. I hope you love reading them as much as I loved writing them!
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Thanks again for posting about Elixir on your blog! <3
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