DNF.

Han pasado 18 años y los sobrevivientes ahora son adultos. Un Halloween amargado y desilusionado ha optado por exiliarse pero sus compañeros buscan repoblar la Tierra y construir la civilización. Son la última, la mejor y quizás la única esperanza de la humanidad. Sin embargo, una división ideológica los ha dividido en dos sociedades muy diferentes: una busca resucitar a la raza humana, la otra mejorar la humanidad a través de la manipulación genética. Así, nace una nueva generación de niños, pero, a medida que maduran, se hace evidente que no todo anda bien. Alguien, o algo, se está moviendo contra ellos, incluso cuando Black Ep, la plaga que se cobró millones de vidas, regresa en busca de nuevas víctimas. Los sobrevivientes deben trabajar juntos, pero para salvar el futuro, Halloween primero debe dejar atrás el pasado...

It seemed to take a good while before the plot really grabbed me. I probably got through half or 2/3 of the book before I found I couldn't put it down. Not as good as the first book in this series, but still enjoyable, although if I could've been patient it would've been a better buy as a paperback. ( )

Can't get into it. Maybe I liked Idlewild too much. Maybe I miss the very missing character. Maybe I'm not the least impressed by the "scary" character with the quirky voice. Maybe it's simply that it's a sequel.

One thing, though: 30-odd years into a future with no humans, there'd be no marketplaces left, much less ones still holding market smells in their undamaged pavement. Sorry, but sometimes the disbelief snags on something as it's suspending.

I listened to Idlewild (Book 1) in 2008, and had a hard time connecting with any of the characters. In this book, it was easier for me to connect the characters, and I thought a lot of the ideas explored were more interesting than the ones explored in the first book. In both books, I didn't find the inner monologs believable, but it's hard to tell if the writing is at fault or the readers when you're listening. I wasn't crazy about the ending, but I see now that there's a third, so perhaps, I'll feel differently if I ever get around to it. ( )