I got up early on a Saturday and read this while everyone was asleep....seemed like just the right setting. It added to the creepiness! I wish I knew what happened to all the people to disappear so suddenly and leave their cell phones behind. Creepy!
I wondered why she wrote it in verse and she answers that in the pages after the book. Well explained and I'm on-side with her decision. Because it's written in verse, it's a really quick read.
Coincidently, I happen to have just bought a copy of Island of the Blue Dolphins, which is mentioned in the beginning of this book. Funny how books come in themes in my life. I think I'll read that next.
Goodreads says:
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.
With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.
As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?
