Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Alex is hiking into the woods in the middle of nowhere to scatter that ashes of her dead parents. She's also out there to possibly die. You see Alex has a monster in her brain. It refuses to die, no matter what treatment the doctors have thrown at it.
Not long into her trip Alex meets a nice older man and his decidedly not nice eight year old grandaughter, Ellie, and Ellie's dog, Mina. Then all hell breaks loose. All three of them are incapacitated with an excruciating pain in their heads; all the birds are freaking out and dying; Alex just witnessed a herd of deer jump straight off of a cliff. Then it's all over. Alex and Ellie are ok, but Ellie's grandfather is dead. What they just experienced was the Pulse and it killed everything electronic including the pacemaker in Ellie's grandfather's heart.
Now, all Alex wants to do is get back home, but she's saddled with a brat. The upside is she now has her sense of smell, long lost to the effects of the monster tumor in her brain. As a matter of fact she can smell even better. Alex can smell, danger; danger in the form of dangerous teens changed by the Pulse. What she's coming to realize is that not everyone who survived the Pulse is "normal". Alex really understands this when she and Ellie are being attacked by a pack of feral dogs AND a crazed man. Tom comes out of the woods and saves them from his friend and the dogs.
Now the three of them are tasked with getting back to civilization. What they don't know is that it's not going to be easy surviving the older adult survivors who are desperate to keep away from or kill the crazed teenagers who were changed by the Pulse.
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