Kaitlin Ward lives in a small New Hampshire town with her husband and son. She studied animal science at Cornell University before becoming a freelance writer. Kaitlin co-founded the well-known blog YA Highway, where she currently runs the popular Road Trip Wednesday feature.
*STARRED REVIEW: In the spirit of M.T. Anderson's Thirsty (1997),
Ward's apocalyptic novel will have readers checking the ground
beneath their feet after each turn of the page. Readers meet Lea, a
confident teenage girl who just wants to hang out with her friends
and spend quality time with her new girlfriend, Aracely. But when
the Earth begins to ooze blood and other body parts, Lea's hometown
becomes a war zone, with citizens fighting over fresh water and
food rations, and Lea becomes ever more concerned with her
dwindling faith in humanity, her declining mental state, and the
blood that won't stop rising. To her family and close friends,
Lea's sexuality is largely a nonissue, which is refreshing (and
sensible, considering the impending apocalypse); furthermore,
readers looking for the next LGBT heroine will love Lea's
strong-willed attitude. The frightful moments are craftily
deployed, creeping up and startling readers when they're least
expecting it. And the government PSAs regarding the blood that
punctuate Lea's narration are enough to panic even the most
fearless of readers, their commonplace mundanity highlighting the
freakishness. Grisly and sickening (but in the best way possible),
the novel more than delivers on its promise of the macabre for
lovers of horror, and curious readers will close the book with
countless questions about religion, science, and human nature.
--Kirkus Reviews
Dark, gory, and impossibe to put down. A worthy addition to the
horror genre! --Gretchen McNeil, author of Ten and the Don't Get
Mad series
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