Decent read. I do feel like the dystopian book world is a bit overpublished, so I was hoping this would stick out. Sadly, it seemed like many others and predictable - to include your good old good versus evil prompts.

I clicked on this title by mistake. It looks interesting with the excellent cover. 4 Stars for the cover.

Good versus evil, the never ending battle. After reading this book I became really attached to the characters and I really hope the author continues with the series. The plot was easy to follow and the understand.

Schism – Britt Holewins

“My name is Andrea Christensen. I’m one of the oldest oldest people in the world.”

SCHISM is the first book in a new dystopian trilogy that tells a tale of survival, of good versus evil, and of constructing a future with only memories of childhood.
A government-created virus is accidentally released before testing is complete and within weeks it kills six billion people, children are the only survivors. Andy Christensen and her two friends travel across the country searching for a safe place to live, but nowhere, it seems, is capable of resurrection.

Ok, so I loved the book, but hated the ending. It was so predictable if not even a little lazy. I totally understand authors wanting to end books on a cliffhanger so that they can build suspense for the next book in the series but jeeeeeeeeeez, make it more interesting that this. The ending totally let this one down.

There were no adults in this book, they’d all been killed off by a deadly virus. This was very easy to forget at times though as the characters were often very sophisticated, but it made the book easier and more grown-up to read. I was a little apprehensive at first and thought the book would be very childish due to the lack of adults – but I was pleasantly surprised.

The characters showed tremendous growth throughout the book which ultimately made it easier for you to really root for their survival. The relationships that they formed were realistic and I became sympathetic for how they must be feeling. There were a few flaws to the overall story like how children have learnt to drive cars, restart entire power grids/cellular networks etc. but this was easy to overlook once I got deeper into the story.

Overall, a good read that was let down by a lazy ending.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with a free ARC in exchange for an honest review.

★★★1/2