ALA YALSA Award-winning Author Kailin Gow’s newest Science Fiction Post-Apocalypse Thriller.If you liked Bird Box and The Quiet Place, you will enjoy RED GENESIS.Evie was born on a new Earth that had no oxygen. When she was only 13 years old, her mother had to step outside of their underground shelter for an errand. She had been missing ever since. But with her mother’s careful instructions and … instructions and training, Evie has been able to survive for the last 5 years.
She knows there are dangerous creatures outside of the underground shelter who travel with the wind and feeds on people’s fear. They have killed many humans on the surface when they first appeared. Did her mother meet the same demise?
Now at 18 years old with the shelter deteriorating and in need of fresh supplies, Evie is about to embark on the same errand and face the deadly creatures above. What will she find and can she survive?
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This is a story of Evie on New Earth, an eighteen year old who is all alone after her mom sets out years earlier to find more supplies and doesn’t return. This is story of her survival along the way. I enjoyed the story. Please note that this is a cliffhanger
Kept me riveted as to what was going to happen. Fascinating world building!
I received an Advanced Reader Copy for an honest and voluntary review
This is a fantastic and suspenseful story by Kailin Gow!! It really had me on the edge of my seat waiting to see what was going to happen next. I really love the imaginative world that the author created. I could picture it vividly in my mind. It was really different in a refreshing way. I really liked the heroine, Evie, too She’s a survivor!!
When Evie was 13 years old, her and her mother, had to leave the safety of their underground shelter for supplies. They live on a new Earth with no oxygen, and their water pipes are broken. Evie and her mother have to fix the water lines. They also have obstacles in their way, in the form of “monsters” that feed off of peoples fears. Evie’s mother disappears. Evie is able to survive on her own, by remembering her mother’s guidance. When she is 18 years old, Evie has to venture out again. Will she be able to find her mother and also survive against her fears…..
Okay so I am not a big reader on apocalyptic stories. This one is different for me. So we have new earth. What is new earth? That is a good question. It seems to be underground somewhere. We know that Evie and her mother are surviving in an underground home. Evie’s mom educates her with what materials they have on hand. Then something happens and they have to go topside to make some fixes. Only to come across some monsters. Now this is weird. We don’t know much about these creatures except that they killed just about every human. Then Evie has a robot friend to keep her company until she has to go topside again. Only this time around she learns of new things about where she is. What she is? It got really interesting at the end and leaves with a cliffy. Now I wonder what will happen.
Kailin Gow’s Science Fiction Post-Apocalypse Thriller Red Genesis is nothing short of amazing. it just goes to show this lady can write anything she wants where it is dark romance to Scifi wow
very different from what i have read in the past by Ms Gow, but definitely not disappointed
This is a book that I ain’t use to reading. It was interesting and I didn’t put it down to the very end. The journey this girl went through is amazing. This is a good book to read
I’ve been sitting on this review for a couple of days now. I cannot even describe my thoughts, other than WOW. This book is like none of the books I normally read. I took a chance. You should too.
I was so excited to get a copy of this title when it came out. But sadly that excitement was short lived. This book suffers from the same thing a lot of indie and self pub books suffer from….bad editing. The book starts out with weird word choices and bad formatting. And it just doesn’t get any better. It reminded me of an episode of Fallout Shelter to start with. With a girl being left alone in some kind of vault her mother leaves her there and now she’s all alone. So this 13 year old who was left alone is now 18.
The story felt very choppy with leaning about how her mother disappeared and then another girl shows up all of sudden. I did like the idea of the monsters and yes if you have seen Bird Box and shows of its kind this is totally like those creatures in those movies.
The romance was very odd as very convenient. Parts this story reminded me of another one called Under the Never Sky. Which was a very good story. But where that one felt like it knew where it wanted to go and how to get there. This one felt like it had lost its map.
In the end I am glad that I had the opportunity to check this one out but sadly I think it needed a little more work to be a great story.
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Red Genesis: By Kailin Gow
I really did enjoy Red Genesis by Kailin Gow. It does take a minute to get into the book; but once you are in, you are all in because you don’t want to miss the happenings that are going on in the story pages. Evie a young child growing up on Mars and has been told that the monsters have taken over and that her father was killed by them several years ago. The technology that is brought from the old country and left on Mars is one when modified will continue to self sustain. Evie’s mother leaves her to go find food to to sustain them as they are able to grow somethings on Mars but not all things. When Evie’s mother leaves she leaves behind Mary. Mary keeps Evie company and becomes a best friend to Evie.
In the midst of wonder and the water line needing to be fixed Evie and Mary must leave their enclosure to repair the much-needed waterline. In the midst of their excavation and repair, they do run into the monsters and much more.
Red Genesis touches on the love and human kindness in the world, autism, and love that it incremental. I am anxiously awaiting the sequel to this book. I urge you to read this book. I give it a 4.5-star rating and I wasn’t sold at first; the book is every bit worth your time to read.
Good book but i dont think i would reread it. it wont let me give it a 3.5 star review so i had to do 4 stars for this book. It needs work on but its still a good book