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Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
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Ashes (edition 2011)

by Ilsa J. Bick

Series: Ashes Trilogy (1)

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Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.… (more)
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Title:Ashes
Authors:Ilsa J. Bick
Info:EgmontUSA (2011), Hardcover, 480 pages
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Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick

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    Born by Tara Brown (magelet87)
    magelet87: Before Bick adds the dystopia element and its just the three of them surviving the apocalypse, this book reminds me of Born. It had the potential to be as good as that trilogy.
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Loved the 1st half of this book but was less than thrilled about the last half. So much so that I doubt highly I will buy next book. ( )
  cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |
CW: MC goes off to the wilderness to spread her parents ashes. She has a brain tumour and by making this trip she knows she may die as she is not near medical treatment. ( )
  Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 |
I began reading this with great excitement (such a cool cover! such a strong beginning! good writing!) and my heart went SPLAT when I realized it was a zombie book. I. Cannot. Read. Zombie. Books. Most are too scary for me (yeah, I'm a big baby, but still).

So I enjoyed, really enjoyed, what I read, but I put it down when the flesh eating began. File Under: Skimmed. ( )
  FinallyJones | Nov 17, 2021 |
That was one messed up book. ( )
  ntwillow | Aug 17, 2021 |
I was so excited to read this book! Dang! If I didn't like reading speculative/survivalist/dystopian fiction so much I wouldn't have finished it. The characters drove me nuts. Alex was either too smart or too dumb--it never evened out--and I wanted to slap Ellie most of the time. Rule could have been more interesting, but that was drawn out too long. I grew weary of the obligatory love scenes and the predictable love triangle. The writing bugged me, too. Bick went overboard with the use of italics when it was completely unnecessary; the sentences were emphatic enough as they stood. It was difficult for me to tell between the 3rd person limited and omniscient sometimes, and she switched off between using cutesy words (hi, Alex is not cutesy) and vicious imagery enough that it was jarring. And oh. my. god. Could she refrain from ending every chapter with a twist? Not only did that become old hat, but it quickly became comical as well. I felt like singing, "Duhn-duhn-DUHHHHN!" every freaking time.

I chose to finish it and give it three stars because I generally find this kind of world building fascinating. It always gets me thinking about what I would do to survive and help my loved ones. And the Ashes world is plenty interesting--the electromagnetic impact is a new one to me in the zombie fiction world. I kept up for the action scenes, but I suspect I'll read the synopses of the following books rather than spend time reading them. ( )
  LibroLindsay | Jun 18, 2021 |
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes...Carl Sandburg
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For David, now and always.
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Prolouge: "Where are you?" Aunt Hannah demanded as soon as Alex thumbed talk.
Chapter 1: Four days later, Alex perched on a knuckle of bone-cold rock and whittled an alder branch to a toothpick as she waited for her coffee water to boil.
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Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

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