Stung by Bethany Wiggins
Imagine waking up in your childhood bedroom. You are exhausted, your body feels heavy and the feeling of strangeness grows even more when you look at your once white eyelet curtains and see they are yellowed with age. The carpet has a thick layer of dust and there are no sheets on your mattress. You can remember falling asleep a thirteen year old girl but when you look at yourself in the mirror, you have the body of an adult. Four years have passed and you are now awake in your abandoned house. You glance down at your hands and see a tattoo of a bug with ten legs. When you move to go to the bath room you realize there is blood, dried and fresh, on the floor. And you realize, you aren't alone...
Bees are dying. And when the bees die, nothing will pollinate the flowers and plants and without plants, what will the animals eat? In the Western United States, Fiona wakes up and finds her house abandoned and in ruins. Stranger than the eerie silence of an empty home and abandoned neighborhood, Fiona finds an odd tattoo on her hand, a black oval with five lines on either side. She comes to find that those who bear the tattoo are violent, mindless beasts that consume the unmarked. They live in sewers and in empty streets while a select few live within the high walls of a fortress protected from the monsters. And what is worse, she is one of them. Will she find her family? Can she find protection from the ravenous beasts with their marked hands? Can she find protection from herself in case she turns?
I loved this book. I need something to kick me out of my reading slump. I overloaded with books in the spring, took it easy in the summer, and have been slacking this fall so far! I've started so many books but can hardly get through them because none are catching my attention. But the opening of this book completely changed that. I was so hooked then minute I read the first chapter that I finished the book in just two days. I also love a good dystopian (if you haven't figured that out yet) and this has a new take: apocalyptic sleeping beauty! I also appreciate, like all good dystopians, the element of "Oh crap, this could really happen".
What I really enjoyed about this book was being kept in the dark. So often are you reading a book and the back story is giving and you can understand everything. With this book, it is as if you and Fiona have both woken up from a four year coma and you have to figure out what's happening as it comes. It's got a pretty solid romance (though not really my cup of tea) and good relationship building. Just wait until you read the final chapters of the battle in the pits. It's sickening. Sickening for its violent description and sickening because it's so well written.
If you have ever been stung by a bee or liked the taste of honey, you should probably pick up this book. You never know, both of those things could becoming incredibly valuable one day...
Bees are dying. And when the bees die, nothing will pollinate the flowers and plants and without plants, what will the animals eat? In the Western United States, Fiona wakes up and finds her house abandoned and in ruins. Stranger than the eerie silence of an empty home and abandoned neighborhood, Fiona finds an odd tattoo on her hand, a black oval with five lines on either side. She comes to find that those who bear the tattoo are violent, mindless beasts that consume the unmarked. They live in sewers and in empty streets while a select few live within the high walls of a fortress protected from the monsters. And what is worse, she is one of them. Will she find her family? Can she find protection from the ravenous beasts with their marked hands? Can she find protection from herself in case she turns?
I loved this book. I need something to kick me out of my reading slump. I overloaded with books in the spring, took it easy in the summer, and have been slacking this fall so far! I've started so many books but can hardly get through them because none are catching my attention. But the opening of this book completely changed that. I was so hooked then minute I read the first chapter that I finished the book in just two days. I also love a good dystopian (if you haven't figured that out yet) and this has a new take: apocalyptic sleeping beauty! I also appreciate, like all good dystopians, the element of "Oh crap, this could really happen".
What I really enjoyed about this book was being kept in the dark. So often are you reading a book and the back story is giving and you can understand everything. With this book, it is as if you and Fiona have both woken up from a four year coma and you have to figure out what's happening as it comes. It's got a pretty solid romance (though not really my cup of tea) and good relationship building. Just wait until you read the final chapters of the battle in the pits. It's sickening. Sickening for its violent description and sickening because it's so well written.
If you have ever been stung by a bee or liked the taste of honey, you should probably pick up this book. You never know, both of those things could becoming incredibly valuable one day...
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