The Other Life: who we were before the virus. How we'll never be again. It's been 3 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days since Sherry has seen daylight. When things went wrong up above, she was sealed off from the world in a bunker with her family. But when they run out of food, Sherry and her dad must venture outside. There they find devastation, desolation...and the Weepers: savage mutant killers. When her dad is snatched, Sherry joins forces with gorgeous but troubled Joshua - an Avenger, determined to destroy the Weepers. But can Sherry keep her family and Joshua safe, when his desire for vengeance threatens them all? The seeds of first love are sown amongst the death and destruction of a nightmare future in this incredible debut novel. Beautifully formed and gut-wrenchingly gripping, it's essential reading.
I really enjoyed this story, it was interesting and fun to read. I liked the concept of the world.
But I didn't like that the story line was so basic. Sherry trying to find her father after the Weepers took him. I felt like it was a very basic storyline in such a world that has so much potential. The stakes weren't high enough and I wanted more action, less naivety and stupidity, a deeper story and more reveals. There were a lot of info dumps which made me sad, instead of gradually finding out all of this information we learnt it in info dumps all at once. That made this story a little boring, it wasn't as intense as I wanted it to be.
Still I enjoyed it a lot. I just felt like it could have been a lot better.
