The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist.
Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day…they don’t show up. But when the teens band together to make a break from the facility, they encounter soldiers outside the gates. There’s a rapidly spreading infectious disease outside, and no one can leave their houses or travel without a permit. Which means that they’re stuck at Hope. And this time, no one is watching out for them at all.
As supplies quickly dwindle and a deadly plague tears through their ranks, the group has to decide whom among them they can trust and figure out how they can survive in a world that has never wanted them in the first place.
My Review:
I was really looking forward to this book, I loved Nijkamp’s book This is Where it Ends, and couldn’t wait to read this one. It is told from multiple perspectives: Logan a non-verbal female, whose verbal twin Leah is also in the facility, Grace a long-time female patient, and Emerson a non-binary new arrival. We follow these three though the discovery of the plague and the months that follow as they work to survive.
This book started my year off with a bang, and some tears. This book gave me so many feels. It was a gut wrenching read, but in the best way. The characters made my heart ache, I wanted so much to hug the pain away. As reader, you can’t help but too root for them. You know that they won’t all survive, but you want them to beat the odds, and your heart breaks when they don’t. Just like your heart sings when they do.
*I received this book as an Advanced Reader's Copy (ARC) through NetGalley. I received this copy free in exchange for my honest review.*
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