Remnants (Remnants Trilogy, Book 1)
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Publisher Description
In a single heartbeat, the face of the world changes forever when virtually every living animal disappears without a trace.
When high school senior Darrel Reid wakes up to find his home empty and the neighborhood eerily silent, with the same strange mark on every door, he’s more than a little shaken. Then an alien shows up in his backyard and his life spirals into a living nightmare. Reunited with his two best friends, Maggy and Félix, the trio makes for a natural disaster bunker on the outskirts of town, but a new mark draws them into a house, where they find an unconscious schoolmate—and a trap.
Barely surviving the night, they set out in search of safety, only to discover a landscape that promises a gruesome death, as each passing day becomes more treacherous than the one before. But when Darrel is abducted, a much more sinister plot unfolds, one that leads to a single choice: Fight or go extinct.
About Remnants:
Set in a critically overpopulated near future, Remnants is told through two shifting points of view: Darrel, a gamer geek unprepared for the end of the world; and Maggy, a brainiac tech genius who wields a replica axe from Lord of the Rings. The pulse-pounding action of this apocalyptic YA thriller will appeal to fans of alien invasions, survival stories, and pure sci-fi adventure.
Release Note: This second edition was published on August 30th, 2017.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this first book in the Remnants trilogy, an alien race descends on Earth in 2048 and abducts the majority of the human and animal populations, along with food stores. Darrel, an overweight 17-year-old gamer from Bellingham, Wash., joins up with his longtime friends F lix and Maggy in order to survive. On their journey to what they hope is a safe haven, they pick up other survivors and fight off monsters, both human and alien. A few moments of Hennessy's worldbuilding shine, such as the prevalence of asthma due to air pollution, but he tends to overexplain the setup as well. Clunky chapter transitions (many of which involve readers falling asleep or losing consciousness), a preponderance of too-lucky breaks, and overwritten passages ("But all the signs were there, so long in the making, like the construction of a palace, and now the paint was drying, the last stage before moving day") leave the novel reading as unpolished. Though the reasons behind the invasion and subsequent abductions are intriguing, readers might have trouble making it to the planned sequel. Ages 12 up. (BookLife)
