The Boy on the Bridge
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Today-bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts.
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.
The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world.
To where the monsters lived.
"Strange and surprising and humane" (Lauren Beukes), The Boy on the Bridge is a gripping, powerful story that will make you question what it means to be human.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Like his previous novel, The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey’s The Boy on the Bridge is set in a blasted future and revolves around a remarkable young person whose existence stands in contrast to humankind’s violent decline—and the grown-up determined to stand in harm’s way. If you like zombie movies as much as we do, you’ll enjoy this time bomb of a story, which shows off Carey’s geeky interest in science and sharp, witty insights into human behavior and drama.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Plausible science and solid prose and characterization elevate this dystopian thriller above similar works. In the same alternate future as Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts, a fungus, Cordyceps, which began as an insect parasite, has infected people, repurposing their brains and turning them into "hungries," mindless creatures with an appetite for human flesh. Carey moves quickly to engage readers' sympathies for epidemiologist Samrina Khan, one of a group of scientists and soldiers on a research mission. They travel through the U.K. in a motor home, on a desperate quest for an inhibitor that could make people resistant to the fungus. In the midst of the devastating horror the world has become, Samrina learns that she is pregnant, news she considers "a high tide of wonder and dismay and disbelief and misery in which hope bobs like a lifeboat cut adrift." This development radically complicates things for her, and her colleagues, as the plot builds to a satisfying conclusion.
Customer Reviews
What can I say? I enjoyed this
Pretty fun read. I was excited to see how it ended. Rather unexpectedly.
Stellar
Stellar book, and I love the closure it brings to this world. This was just as riveting as The Girl with All the Gifts.
Wonderful book!
A sidequel to rival the first.