Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (1853)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
    Ten Suns

    Ten Suns

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    Tabletop Game

    Award Winner in global design competition World Original Design Contest 2019! In the beginning,...

    Online Uganda Tv

    Online Uganda Tv

    Entertainment and News

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    Online Uganda TV is a contemporary application which gives you an awesome chance to watch nearby and...

    VM

    Videomaker Magazine

    Photo & Video and Magazines & Newspapers

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    Everyday, video is becoming more integral to our lives. From handheld camcorders to video-capturing...

    Free Apps Ltd

    Free Apps Ltd

    Catalogs and Productivity

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    ★★ DOWNLOAD THIS APP AND YOU WILL GET THE BEST FREE APPS & GAMES that have gone FREE for a...

40x40

ClareR (6256 KP) rated The Wolves of Winter in Books

Mar 11, 2022  
The Wolves of Winter
The Wolves of Winter
Tyrell Johnson | 2018 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
I keep doing this. Reading books about pandemics during a pandemic, and then scaring the living daylights out of myself. Thank goodness I’d read Justin Cronin’s The Passage trilogy pre-Covid, because that would really have had me battening down the hatches!

This is about a different flu-like virus, but the mortality rate is far higher than Covid. And then nuclear bombs are also involved, so it’s a pretty full-on start to this remarkable book.

The sensible people move north. In this case, they move to the Yukon, where the virus is less virulent and people can hunt and trap their food. Lynn McBride lives here with what’s left of her family. They’ve carved out a life for themselves and live in relative safety in the barren, white landscape. But they can’t keep everyone away, and soothe outside world starts to encroach in the form of a loner called Jax, and a frankly scary group of people who are intent on seeing the end of the virus, no matter the human cost.

I loved the descriptions of the landscape - I do tend to love a book set in frozen landscapes (Arctic, Antarctic, just somewhere plain cold!), which is odd really, because I can’t think of a worse place to live. It’s a morbid fascination, I suppose. And the descriptions in this book of the cold, the landscape and the difficulties of living there are so evocative. People surviving against the odds always a winning theme.

It wasn’t until I sat down to write this, that I found out that the book was YA. Honestly, it hadn’t even crossed my mind. Ok, there’s no sex, but in my opinion it just seemed too cold anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️. The main protagonist is in her late teens, and there is a sexual assault and some shooting/ bloodshed. There’s a very cute dog though (also a winning formula for me).

So if you’re feeling brave and like a post-apocalyptic story, you may well fancy reading this. I do wonder if there will be a follow up, because I’d love to know what happens after the final page (it does seem open to that). I’d definitely read it!