Stricken
by C.K. Kelly Martin
Published: November
4, 2017
Publisher: Dancing
Cat Books
Naomi
doesn't expect anything unusual from her annual family trip to visit her
grandparents in Ireland. What she expects is to celebrate her thirteenth
birthday, hang out with her friends Ciara and Shehan, and deal with her gran's
Alzheimer's. What she finds is a country hit by an unexpected virus that
rapidly infects the majority of the Irish population over the age of
twenty-one.
Amnestic-Delirium
Syndrome (ADS) starts off with memory loss, but the virus soon turns its
victims aggravated, blank, or violent. Naomi and her friends must survive on
their own, without lucid adults, cut off from the rest of the world, until a
cure is found.
But
there are whispers that ADS is not terrestrial, and soon Naomi and her friends
learn the frightening truth: we are not alone.
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My Review:
Naomi and her mom are looking forward to spending time in
Ireland with her mother’s parents. She is also looking forward to spending time
with her friends Ciara and Shehan during their time there. She has gotten to
know Ciara and Shehan very well as they make the trip once year. Naomi doesn’t
expect that this year will be any different than the years before except this
year she will be celebrating her thirteenth birthday with a bar-b-que.
Naomi’s gran has Alzheimer but she seems to be getting
worse. They don’t think anything of it until her grandad starts to forget
things as well. Sometimes he thinks Naomi’s mother is a little girl and that
Naomi is her mother. After her grandad gets sick her mother decides to take
them to the ER. Where they find out that her grandparents are not the only ones
getting sick the hospital is filling up fast and everyone is advised to keep
their sick at home unless there is a medical emergency. After returning from the
hospital after being there all day with her parents Naomi’s mother starts to
forget things.
They learn from watching the news that a virus has hit
Ireland and is hitting hard and has infected almost everyone over the age of
twenty. Naomi, Ciara and Shehan are left to take care of themselves after
everyone gets sick. They all hold up in Shehan’s home hiding out from the world
just trying to survive and stay alive. Naomi starts writing a dairy about her
life and her memories so that when she starts to succumb to the virus she can
read it and hopefully it will help her to remember who she is.
When Ciara’s little brother Adam runs away after they get
into a big argument like most brother and sisters do the three of them go
looking for him to bring him back. Adam thinks Ciara is mad at him and doesn’t
want him around especially now after their parents are no longer around.
While they are looking for Adam they meet more of the
infected some are calm but most will just as soon kill you as look at you for
no reason what so ever. The infected are not the only thing they have to worry
about or hide from no there is something else out there with them, they are not
alone.
Can they find Adam before it is too late? Will one of the
infected find them? Or will whatever is out there beside the infected find
them? Who will find them first? Can they survive alone in a world gone mad?
What has happened to the people of Ireland?
Stricken is a fast read with action around every corner that
will keep you hanging on for more. I loved the new twist on sort of zombie like
virus that was taking over the adult population. I love zombies and aliens and
loved seeing the aliens in Stricken but I would like to know more about them
and where they came from and why they are here. Where did the virus come from?
The ending left me hopeful that there would be more stories and I can’t wait to
find out more about Naomi, Ciara, Shehan, Adam, the aliens and the infected. I
can’t wait for the next book.
I would recommend Stricken to anyone who likes to read about
aliens. Stricken is a nice clean read and would be suitable for the young and
old alike.
About the Author:
Long
before I was an author I was a fan of books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar,
Madeline, Anne Shirley and anything by Judy Blume. Throughout high school my favourite
class was English. No surprise, then, that most of my time spent at York
University in Toronto was as an English major—not the traditional way to
graduate with a B.A. (Hons) in film studies but a fine way to get a general
arts education.
After
getting my film studies degree I headed for Dublin, Ireland and spent the
majority of the nineties there in forgettable jobs meeting unforgettable people
and enjoying the buzz. I always believed I'd get around to writing in earnest
eventually, and I began writing my first novel in a flat in Dublin and finished
it in a Toronto suburb. By then I'd discovered that fiction about young people
felt the freshest and most exciting to me. You have most of your life to be an
adult but you only grow up once.
Currently
residing near Toronto with my Dub husband, I'm an aunt to twenty-one nieces and
nephews, and a great-aunt to two great-nephews. I became an Irish citizen in
2001 and continue to visit Dublin as often as I can while working on novels
about young people.
My
first young adult book, I Know It's Over, came out with Random House in
September 2008, and was followed by One Lonely Degree, The Lighter Side of Life
and Death, My Beating Teenage Heart and sci-fi thriller Yesterday. I released
Yesterday's sequel, Tomorrow, in 2013 and put out my first adult novel, Come
See About Me, as an ebook in June 2012. My most recent contemporary YA books,
The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing and Delicate, were published by Cormorant
Books' Dancing Cat Books imprint in 2014 and 2015.
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Signed copy of Stricken by C.K. Kelly Martin (INT)
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