Evangeline “Evie” Green seems to
have the perfect life. Entering her junior year of high school she is on the varsity cheer squad, dating the senior quarterback and hottest guy in the school, her mother owns one of the wealthiest plots of sugar cane land in all of Louisiana, and everybody at school adores her. But things are not as they appear to be, Evie spent her entire summer in a mental institution after months of delusions, dreams, and talking to people who weren’t there. Evie’s grandmother hadn’t been right in the head, eight years before she had been taken away for saying and seeing the same things, and there was no way that Evie’s mother is going to let her go down that path.
Things seem to be fine for Evie now,
except for the dreams. She still dreams of a boy calling for help, an evil red
witch, and the earth burning before her. Dreams are easily hidden, and kept
secret from her mother. That is, until all the things Evie dreamed and had
visions of start to come to pass. In the span of a day, nearly all life is
obliterated from earth. Flares scorch the land, plants and animals die,
standing water evaporates across the globe, and sickness runs rampant among the
survivors.
Evie is
still alive, living on what remains of her southern plantation. Canned goods
and underground wells have kept her alive for months, but supplies are running
low. There is one thing she has on her side though, the ability to grow plants.
Not a single drop of rain has touched earth in over seven months, and not a
single plant survived the flares, but a drop of her blood on the earth and
things start to bloom.
When the
militia starts combing their way across Louisiana, Evie has no choice but to
leave her home with Jack. Jack. Handsome, dangerous and wild Jack who went to
school with her. A boy who by all accounts is bad news, but the only person
left on the earth who she even slightly knows. He promises to help her as long
as she tells him her secret to making plants blossom in the remnants of earth.
Evie isn’t
the only one with powers who still walks. A battle of ancient enemies, reaching
back thousands of years is coming to ahead and Evie has to decide what side she
will be on. Deny her past selves, side with people she hates, kill the world or
save it, every choice she makes leads her down one of two paths.
I was
hooked on this novel from the prologue. I read the entire book in less than a
day, and it was a day well spent. I loved the Cajun feel from some of the
characters, and how Evie discovered her powers and the paths she had to chose
from. This is a series that I am excited to read, in the upcoming years as
novels continue to be written.
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