Synopsis
A new world offered Felicity Grant hope of riches, plentiful forests, and an arranged wedding engagement--but no one mentioned the monsters.
Felicity’s father squanders the family fortune, then decides to travel across the sea to build a new life. She leaves behind her world of airships and automatons for one of the horse-drawn buggies. When the Grants arrive at port, they find it deserted. Meals are half-eaten on the tables, and fires smolder in the cookhouse. However, the inhabitants are still out there, only they’ve changed - and they’re hungry.
The undead rotters tear through the steamship’s crew and passengers, and nothing seems to be able to stop them, not even cutting off their heads – Felicity knows; she tried. Seeking answers to destroying the rotters dressed in ragged uniforms tosses Felicity in the middle of a battle between the primitive tribes native to the land and the high-tech militia seeking to conquer them.
With desolation, the only thing remaining for her in the old world, Felicity must pick up a gun and make sure she survives the new one.
Review
It's an interesting and thrilling adventure that soon turns horrifying when the 'rotters' start attacking. Felicity Grant's life will never be the same. Everything she thought about the new world turns out to be wrong. It's worse. So much worse. They thought savages were the only threat to their new settlements, but they were wrong. The rotters are the worst. They eat flesh and they don't die easily. Amidst all the chaos, she misses her home, and she misses Jack. What if he followed her to the new world? Would they ever get their happy ending?
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and can't wait for the next one. I wonder how Felicity would overcome all the hardships life is throwing at her. I loved all the twists and turns in the story. They kept me on my toes. I'm looking forward to how this story will go on.
P.S. I received a complimentary copy of this book.