Which, except for the seclusion, is completely not how I would choose to spend my remaining days. She's been struggling with cancer for several years and has finally decided to seize what life she has left and enjoy it – in the woods. The book begins as the main character Alex heads out for an extended camping trip in the wilderness. Thankfully, when Katherine Kellgren is narrating those parts she reminds me so much of Anne Shirley reciting The Highwayman in the Kevin Sullivan adaptation of Anne of Green Gables that I couldn’t help smiling through my utter boredom. That would probably come in handy for taxes and stuff.) The worst part of this book for me was the ACTIONACTIONACTION, which is about 75% of the book. (The most awesome thing is that if we got married and had the same last name, except for our first initials we’d essentially have the same name. She’s one of my all-time favorite audiobook narrators, and as Flannery pointed out, I may or may not have somewhat of a crush on this woman. The best part of this book for me was that it was narrated by Katherine Kellgren. Even though this book is very decidedly an ACTION, gore, survival, DRAMA read, I’m glad I tried it. I felt especially obligated to read this one because I already skipped the one from last month. I tend to get bored and zone out when confronted with pages and pages of endless action, but I’m in a book club now and I’m trying to be good. I don’t read too many of these survival-y books anymore, especially when they’re of the young adult variety. Bick crafts a terrifying and thrilling novel about a world that could be ours at any moment, where those left standing must learn what it means not just to survive, but to live amidst the devastation. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom-a young soldier-and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP.įor this improvised family and the others who are spared, it’s now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.Īuthor Ilsa J.

Īn electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions.Īlex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons.

Ashes trilogy book 1