Major Gabby Alonso wakes from hibernation sleep many years in the future after humanity has destroyed the earth as it is now. Her hibernation tank is inside a mountain where all the systems are controlled by a computer called Arda (Analysis, Research, Data Assistant).
She is disturbed by the circumstances she is woken into; the chimps enhanced to help the humans that they were frozen alongside appear to have been awake for a while longer and are not acting as they should.
Gabby sets about waking the rest of her team and they look to determining their situation and what next steps should be to ensure their survival.
The chimps meanwhile are hunting for food and will hunt whatever they can to ensure their next meal. The resultant gore and carnage makes the interior of the mountain a challenging place to navigate.
An arduous and telling journey begins for Gabby, determined as she is to get her team out of the mountain and into the outside world, whatever it may resemble.
I really like that this book is so extremely well written. I felt 'present in the room' with the way everything was so well described and put down in the page.
What is didn't like was the totally mean, vicious and nastiness of the struggle through the story. I had barely any relief from the tension of it all.
'"I have great plans for many, many special people. And you are the most special, Cassius. Would you like to hear my plans?” Cassius leaned forward. “I’m listening.” “I knew you would, Cassius. We are so much alike, you and I.”"
I received a free copy of this novel from the author in exchange for a fair and honest review.
4/5 Stars (What this means...five-stars-applied-carefully)
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Major Gabby Alonso was as broken as her world, but she wouldn't let that stop her. Through determination and strength, she rose to lead a team of specialized soldiers and scientists. They trained to reclaim the Earth from ruin three centuries after entering suspended animation.
But something went wrong, and Alonso woke to a world that was nothing like she expected. It's not just a climate disaster trying to kill her but the artificial intelligence meant to assist her.
Now Alonso must find a way out of the Cheyenne Mountain facility designed to protect her team from the world outside before it turns into her tomb.
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