This novel finds the reader in the bowels of old New York,
living in the tunnels of the ancient subway system. It’s an interesting and
well documented example of what might happen to those left to fend for
themselves in a city whose social and political construct has collapsed due to
a violent strain of some virus.
These bunkers served as escapes from the virus but not from
the ‘freaks’ who roam the same tunnels. Disfigured humanoids whose conception
isn’t expanded on in this first book of a series, are reminiscent of zombies,
dumb, hungry but with claws for fingernails.
Happily the story moves to the surface where we meet new
characters and embark on an adventure that takes the two main characters
through a mostly abandoned city on a journey north, where a fabled new city might
exist.
The way the female lead, Deuce, discovers this new world
where the sun is a threat and the wide open spaces, claustrophobic, is a testament
to the way the author is able to capture the character’s innocence. Lu expertly explains Deuce’s apprehension upon
discovering anything could be so different from the darkness she’d grown up in.
I will be looking for book two of the series, as I found
myself wanting as book one came to an end.
Michael Poeltl
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