Z For Zachariah (The Originals) Paperback – 4 August 2016

It is amazing post-apocalyptic novel. Though it is slow in beginning, but once the story set up. It's really gripping and keep you edgy. Ann is appealing character. She is smart. This novel that will leave you wandering what would you do in ann circumstances.

One of my favourite book, better then the movie. Easy read.

Très bien envoie rapide

Hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Ich habe das Buch zum Englischlernen gekauft und es nicht bereut. Auch mit weniger guten Englischkenntnissen kann man den Text fast wie ein deutsches Buch lesen und bekommt eine äußerst spannende Geschichte präsentiert. So macht lernen Spaß. Daumen hoch.

Be still my little dystopian-loving heart! This novella is pretty close to perfect—for those who love Armageddon-type plots that feature social consciousness as well as survival tactics. My sole complaint is the brevity—took me less than a day to read. I suppose that’s just what happens when you’re a mature adult with an interesting YA book. Overall, I highly recommend it.

I was put on to this book by a work colleague, having expressed an interest in fiction centred around nuclear war. This story focuses on Ann Burden, living alone in a valley, having escaped a massive nuclear war, having lost her family, who went to investigate the neighbouring town...and never returned. After living alone in the valley for a year, she encounters a stranger in a radiation suit, and is wary of him at first, but, when he falls ill from swimming in the contaminated creek, she nurses him back to health. But things take a sinister turn when she learns about his past, which he inadvertently reveals while he is experiencing delirium while fighting radiation sickness. I won't reveal any more, but I found it to be an engaging, but slightly unsettling book. It's been made into a film, which I have yet to see, but, from the novel, there's definitely room for a sequel. There's shades of The Death of Grass, by John Christopher, in that, human values are challenged, questioned, and distorted, to a point where humans cease to be human, and become savages, shadows of their former civilised selves, in the name of survival. It's worth a look, but don't expect a resolution at the conclusion of the novel. Like the future in the wake of a nuclear war, it's uncertain what the outcome will be.