When they venture outside, they are alone, and the landscape is in ruins. After the noise subsides, Tennant and Sophie are permanently affected, with Sophie in pretty bad shape. Tennant has the foresight to plug her ears with beeswax and tries to protect her sister’s hearing as best she can. With screaming and blood pouring from multiple orifices, the parents of sixteen-year-old Tennant Riggin and her eight-year-old sister Sophia hide them in a storm cellar. In a survivalist community in the Oregon Woods near Mount Hood, a ground-shuddering debilitating noise grows louder and louder. Also, JD Barker (who I also love) is co-authoring this one, and I see the influence with the type of foreboding suspense created. After all these years, I can say returning to him in this book, there's a very different atmosphere and plot than what I expected. I devoured James Patterson’s novels decades ago, to the point where I couldn’t tell many of his books apart. Barker, Little, Brown and Company, and NetGalley for this ARC. The story had my mind racing during it and now my mind is racing after the story is over. What I think happens next is not pretty, no prettier than what has already happened. I do know that I have so many questions about what happens after the story ends. It's really hard to say more without giving away too much. The tension is non stop, the happenings gruesome from the onset, and getting more gruesome by the minute. Of course, something is not right but what is causing this phenomenon? Who is causing these events and can they be stopped? We see this story from several different perspectives and we never know more than the characters know.

Nearby a group of highly trained professionals have been gathered to brainstorm what has been happening.

The girls move to another storm shelter and the vibrations happen again. The area and all living things have been pulverized. Running to their settlement, their parents throw them into a storm shelter, leaving the girls alone as their suffering increases unbearably.Īfterwards Tennant is bloody, broken, and battered but Sophia is in even worse shape.

The accompanying noise builds into a deafening crescendo of screams. Barker (Author), James Patterson (Author)įorth generation survivalist sisters, sixteen year old Tennant and eight year old Sophia, are hunting when the world around them begins vibrating.

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