Aside from wrecking their equipment, the pulse has killed most adults and morphed young people into psychotic flesh-eating monsters that are soon dubbed the Changed. Miles from nowhere, she hikes with new companions%E2%80%94an obstinate eight-year-old orphan named Ellie and a young soldier named Tom%E2%80%94as they try to make sense of things. While camping in a national park in Michigan, 17-year-old Alex, a girl coping with a brain tumor and the side effects of its treatment, survives a series of electromagnetic pulses that may have taken out the entire world. A tense and involving adventure with shocks and sudden plot twists that will keep teen and adult readers gripped.Bick delivers an action-packed tale of an apocalypse unfolding, launching a trilogy with flair. This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to find food, shelter, while fighting off the 'Changed' and those desperate to stay alive. Desperate to find out what happened and to avoid the zombies that are on the hunt, Alex meets up with Tom – an Army veteran who escaped one war only to find something worse at home – and Ellie, a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse. For those spared, it's a question of who can be trusted and who has changed… Everyone still alive has turned – some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh). An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky zapping every electronic device and killing the vast majority of adults. A tense and… ( tovább)Īlex has run away and is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents' ashes, about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live.

Alex has run away and is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents' ashes, about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live.

Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick