It would be easy to say that Genevieve chose one path and became one of the good guys while Echo chose another, living with the bad guys, but I don’t think either had much of a choice. Some might find Genevieve’s shilly-shallying over her feelings about Echo annoying but often I had to remind myself that despite all they both have been through, they are really quite young. They didn’t get a chance to grow into themselves. They went from being teenagers with rather normal lives to having to fend for themselves in a crazy world.

It’s never more true than it is here, especially for Genevieve and Echo. Most stories are about finding one’s true self, in some way or another. Who do you become when your world ends? How far are you willing to go to survive? What makes you want to live when everyone you love is dead? Dugan was a businessman, a husband and a father. Echo was also a high school girl, a very shy and very smart one. As I’ve mentioned above, Genevieve was a high school student and a soccer player. All three have lost everything after the outbreak, their family but also who they were. The story is mostly told from the POV of three characters: Genevieve Echo and Dugan, a man surviving on his own. An infection has turned a major part of the population into Ferals, soulless creatures who bite, eat and kill any living being they find, and everyone else is trying to survive and not get caught. Genevieve is a soldier, Echo is a raider and partly responsible for the death of Genevieve’s family. When they meet six years later, they’re on opposite sides. Last time they saw each other, Genevieve and Echo (not her name at the time) were fifteen and unlikely high school friends.

Charon docks at daylight epub