My Never Ending List

It seems like Mother Nature just won’t let go of the Gulf Coast and after its latest attack and its aftereffects, it has been decided to separate this area from the U.S. A string of hurricanes, a fever, and then a quarantine has left the citizens of the Gulf Coast isolated. They built a wall to divide the people from the rest of the country just hoping to keep The Fever contained but this is only the beginning. Welcome to Orleans. The citizens who are now cut off from the rest of the U.S., group themselves together by blood type, a new type of segregation that has deadly consequences. The concept of the book was fascinating and being a weather fanatic, I understood the magnifications that weather could play upon this part of the country but I had a hard time actually believing that the U.S. would separate. With everything we do as a nation and contend with, why we would do that to our own citizens, I just couldn’t fathom. I tried to put this in the back of my mind as I read this story and it truly was enjoyable reading about the wars between the blood types and the hierarchies within the strains. Their fought for survival when the world around them was so bleak and new, was constant. They acted like tribes of individuals banding together for survival, fighting for rights, and power. When Daniel entered the picture, a new twist was thrown into the book. Working with the military to stop The Fever, Daniel lived on the other side of the wall but needs to cross over to Orleans to perfect his cure for the virus. Armed with special equipment, he ventures inside the quarantined territory not knowing what to expect. He may think he came prepared with his gadgets and his vials of virus but until he met Fen, the rooftops, Mr.Go, and Father John, he didn’t really know Orleans. There’s a lot to follow in Orleans as the individuals move around constantly, fear of another group and death. Daniel has a mission but he’s walking into dangerous territory and people see him as prize. Daniel needs to be successful; he might be Orleans only chance of redemption.