There is some sex talk but nothing too graphic, a few swears, and the cannibal gore, so it just depends on what your child can handle.) As one of my friends in the book club stated, it’s not great literature, but you can enjoy it for what it is, and considering some of the deep war novels I gravitate toward, this was a bit of light, mindless reading for me. (I should probably state that this book may not be appropriate for your younger reader. The Girl (age 12) and I read this together, and she really enjoyed it, gore and all. I probably wouldn’t have picked up Ashes if it wasn’t our August book club pick, but it was a quick read that had a little bit of everything - disaster, romance, and of course, action and horror, courtesy of the cannibals. They can’t stay in the woods forever, but there are more sinister things waiting for them on the road, as catastrophes such as this bring out the worst in some people. While dodging these zombie-like cannibals and a pack of frenzied dogs, they run into Tom, a soldier not much older than Alex, and as they try to find food and shelter and piece together what is going on in the world beyond the forest, they become a family of sorts. Somehow they also were changed by The Zap, but into cannibals, wild beings focused only on eating whatever they can get their hands on. It’s not long before she smells a rotten stench, and she and Ellie stumble upon teenagers who have suddenly gone primitive. She can smell fear and the emotions of both people and animals. Shortly after what she calls The Zap, as she’s trying to figure out what supplies she has, what she should do next, and how to manage Ellie and her bad attitude, Alex realizes that she suddenly has regained her sense of smell, and it’s even sharper than before. The novel follows a teenage girl named Alex, who is camping in the mountains, grieving the death of her parents, and contemplating her terminal brain tumor when the EMP kills the old man she has just met in the woods, leaving her to watch over his 8-year-old granddaughter, Ellie, who is already dealing with the grief of losing her dad in Iraq. Bick’s YA dystopian trilogy about a world turned upside down by an electromagnetic pulse that renders all electronic devices useless, causes countless people to drop dead on the spot, and changes many others in unthinkable ways. Something wet and hot spurted from her throat and dribbled down her chin.Īshes is the first installment in Ilsa J. A sudden metallic chattering bubbled in her ears, and her vision sheeted first red and then glare-white, and then she was stumbling, her feet tangling, and she fell. The pain was fire, a laser that scorched her brain.
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