The Feeding
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4.3 • 24 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
With echoes of The Road, New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan’s The Feeding is a brilliant postapocalyptic novel that is perfect for fans of Justin Cronin, M. R. Carey, and Alexis Henderson.
Fifteen years ago the feeders rose from the shadows to transform the world into a graveyard. The few survivors exist in fortified settlements surrounded by the empty ruins of a destroyed civilization. For years the citizens of New City Redoubt have relied on an elite cadre of Crossers to navigate the feeder-infested wasteland between settlements in order to trade for vital supplies. But the Outside is becoming ever more dangerous, and the ranks of the Crossers grow thinner with every crossing.
Layla, only a child when the Feeding destroyed the old world, spends her days scavenging the ruins for valuable scrap and her nights helping her adoptive family eke a living from the Redoubt’s only movie theater. Now, with her father slowly dying, Layla resolves to join the Crossers to retrieve the medicine that can save him. Smart, ruthless, and fast on her feet, Layla quickly gains the respect of her fellow Crossers. But, in a world lost to the deadliest predators, can even the most cunning prey survive?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ryan (Born of an Iron Storm) successfully pivots from epic fantasy to post-apocalyptic thriller in this pulse-pounding vampire tale. Fifteen years before the start of the novel, an event dubbed "The Feeding" led to the evolution of three types of vampires: feral gammas; slightly more human betas; and powerful alphas, who are intelligent enough to pass as fully human. Since then, billions have died. Teen survivor Layla lives in one of the few remaining human strongholds, the Redoubt. After one of her fathers, Strang, contracts a lung infection, Layla is desperate to obtain antibiotics to treat it. With none available in the Redoubt, she successfully applies to join the Crossers, a highly trained unit that ventures into the feeder-infested Outside to search for precious resources. Each Crosser is also allowed to bring back a few personal items, and Layla hopes to hunt down the medication and get it to Strang in time. Scrappy Lyla is a wonderfully multifaceted heroine and, as she and her teammates face threats both from the voracious feeders and from one another, Ryan keeps readers on the edges of their seats. Fans of The Last of Us will be enthralled.
