by Jennifer Reynolds
Published: February
26, 2014
Genre: Science
Fiction, Dystopian, Apocalyptic
Blurb:
When everyone you know is dying, how do you go on living?
When the world collapses, how do you rebuild it? When you are little more than
a child yourself, how do you rule the remnants of such a world?
All Eve wanted out of life was to graduate college, marry
her high school boyfriend, and write for World Weekly News, but when a sickness
is set upon the world, she finds herself caring for a slowly growing group of
survivors.
Can she save herself and them from starvation, from
insanity, from each other? Can her group survive a plague-ridden world, while
learning to fight against those who have let the loneliness, the isolation, the
emptiness destroy who they once were. She doesn’t think so, but she’s
determined to try.
My Review:
With the world dying around her Eve had no choice but to sit
back and watch it happen. Slowly day by day Eve watched as her family and
friends died around her with the exception of her nephew Caleb whose mother,
Eve’s sister died giving birth to him.
Eve wakes up every day to take care of Caleb he is the only
thing keeping her going in this world now. Before the world started dying all
Eve wanted was to go college and marry her high school sweetheart. Now she
lives alone with Caleb in the home she grew up in.
Eve spends her days taking care of Caleb and just trying to survive
one day at a time. Eve finds her strength to keep going just by waking every
day and looking upon Caleb’s little face. He is her inspiration, her motivation
to climb out of bed and face this desolate world.
Just as Eve starts to believe that she and Caleb are the
only ones left alive others start to trickle in giving her hope once more. Eve
soon finds herself leading this small band of people. If they work together
maybe they will and can survive to live another day. Eve puts her all into
trying to keep these people safe and protect them from all the bad that is out
there.
After reading all the dystopian, apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic
books that I have, I always believed that they could happen that they could
become real but I never knew just how real but now with what we are all living
through with the Coronavirus, Alone really hits close to home and can open your
mind to so much and to what more could happen and help with what may or could
be our future real soon, hopefully not.
I have said it before but I do mean it every time I say it,
Alone has become one of the best books I have ever read and I don’t think I
will ever forget it. The world building is so realistic and brilliantly written
by an author that has become one of my favorite authors right up there with
Stephen King.
Jennifer makes you feel as if you are right there with the
characters and seeing what they see. The words and the scenes jump off the page
right into your heart and have you feeling what all the characters are feeling.
With the words jumping into your mind it is like each and every scene is
playing out in your head like a movie like you have ESP or something. I can’t
seem to get enough of Jennifer’s stories and can’t wait to read more of her
work.
You know how when you have a favorite author and you want to
read everything they have written, you don’t even have to read the blurb to
know that it is going to be good? Yeah well Jennifer is one of those authors.
So if you get a chance pick up one of her books to begin a great adventure.
Alone is such a great book that I would like to recommend it
to everyone even if you are not a fan of this genre as it has so much more to
offer.
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