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A brilliant thriller with everything a book needs for success

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2017

Yes - another five star review. People will probably start to doubt these - that's what happens when they are all five star.
Yet this rating is well deserved. I give five stars to a book that I want to keep reading in preference to doing all the things that I should be doing. This book kept me up until the early hours of the morning - I has to finish that last 23% of it.

The book has an intriguing concept - a virus which becomes active during pregnancy and kills the mother during childbirth. The earths population is being decimated and disaster looms. It has all the ingredients for success. An obvious antagonist, an unpleasant scientist working hard to produce the cure, two young protagonists. It has twists in the plot and everything looks bad for the protagonists right until the end. The antagonist comes to a nasty end - or is that true? I'll look forward to a follow-up book. Could that antagonist have survived?

It's well edited too. Nice to find a book without obvious mistakes.

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Laura Stephenson

Brilliant idea

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2021

The idea behind this book is fabulous, I wish I could say the writing lived up to it.
A world where women die once 4 weeks pregnant whether they give birth or not would be unlikely to exist within the limits given in this book.
Would it not, for instance, be sensible for governments to pay women to have children? The human race will die out if no one has them, and who would want to when you won't even get to see them?
This is only one of the disappointments in this book. The characters do things they would not do if they were consistent, all to adhere to the brittle storyline. If characters go against your storyline, you follow them and build around them, there's always a way to come back to the story.
I probably won't be reading the other books in the story due to this sloppy writing, and it had so much promise!!!

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Laura Stephenson

Brilliant idea

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2021

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John Chapman

A brilliant thriller with everything a book needs for success

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2017

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pickygirl

Would make a good Netflix series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 July 2019

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Not my usual read (not into sci fi as a rule – but this was much more than that) but so glad I gave it a go. It’s been on my TBR pile for a while, but I bumped it up based on some really good reviews and a recommendation from a friend. Obviously, I was not disappointed with my choice as it’s a five star from me. An incredibly intriguing concept set in the future, it involves a young girl who miraculously survives childbirth after an incurable virus wipes out most of mankind, ensuring that all pregnant women (except one) dies after giving birth. Well done to the author for creating such an original and captivating story. Could easily see this is as a standalone Netflix movie or even a series. Come on Netflix, give the author a call.

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Excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2022

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This book really did not disappoint on what it offered.

It was a well paced, brilliantly woven story with great characters that were easy to get to know.

I'm really looking forward to the next book in this series and may well be adding this author to my list of favourites.

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Mark Tilbury

A very impressive sci-fi thriller that deserves to be more well known/read than it currently is.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2017

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Sci-fi isn't a genre I read much of, but when this book was recommended to me, and I read the description, I became interested in the story.

In the not so distant future a virus is wiping out mankind by killing all women after they give birth. The plot pivots around Antimone, who survives childbirth, and could be useful in finding a cure that could save the human race.

I was very impressed with the plot - greed, cover ups, lies told by big pharmaceuticals and sacrifices having to be made to save people, all provided a great paced story. I also liked Antimone, strong, feisty and determined to find out, why her?

I'm glad that this book was recommended to me as it's a very impressive sci-fi thriller that deserves to be more well known/read than it currently is. Highly recommended.

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John R Cowton

Had me hooked from start to finish.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2017

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This was another FB recommendation as I don't read scientific-fi. Set in the not too distant future it was not too far out of my comfort zone and not set in another galaxy.
A young girl is pregnant and survives childbirth when every other woman dies at the end of her pregnancy due to an incurable virus that has swept the world. Her survival has left her prey to an unscrupulous government-financed research facility where she is held against her will to undergo 'tests' with an aim to find a money-spinning cure.
A real page turner that had me hooked from start to finish.
I will be looking out for more of Richard T Burke's work in the not too distant future.

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Lytton Grey

countdown to disaster

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 June 2017

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A clever mid-apocalyptic countdown to disaster for the human race quickly involves us in the personal tragedies of teenage girls who, unknown to one another, are enduring nightmarishly similar experiences. They fall within both the jurisdiction of a policewoman who heads a specialist unit and the domain of a major medical research and development unit.

The characters are strongly drawn and wholly believable. I was drawn into their world straightaway and emerged rather shakily 2 days later. Now that’s what you call a ‘gripping read’.

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Nanny witch

not what I was expecting!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2021

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I found this story intriguing from the start and it kept my interest all the way through. Some aspects of the book I found disturbing but felt it was a necessary part of the plot. The last chapter surprised me but concluded the story perfectly.

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shider

Gift well enjoyed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 May 2022

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My partner throughly enjoyed this book. It started off slightly predictable, but wasn’t expecting what happened. Looking forward to reading the next two. Get this author a publisher…..

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uk_jacqui

Excellent stand alone story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2017

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Very original story. Whilst series are very good when you immerse yourself in a whole world, this book felt right as a single book and it didn't end with unanswered questions. I didn't give it 5 stars because I thought that the actual 'baddies' were a little obvious but not enough that you wanted to stop reading before the end. Finally, apart from a few misspellings, the book had no jarring errors which interrupted the flow when reading.

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