The cover fits the post-apocalyptic/dystopian style of the book well. The cover shows a wrecked section of a school, which depicts the book well. It has been on my wishlist for quite a while, from before it came out in paperback. I purchased this paperback from .uk for myself as a birthday treat. In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, Lex Thomas locks readers inside a school where kids don’t fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive. It’s just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. And that was just the beginning.Ī year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High-until a massive explosion devastated the school.
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