Kas, Finn & Ray have the best months in years – for Kas, ever. She feels like they are a family. They swim, fish and spend endless summer days together. But the world outside their small rural town/haven is beginning to pull itself together.

The radio isn’t just static any more and an announcement is made. The country will be split into zones. Leaders of each zone will be appointed by the government. Unbelievably, Ramage is one of them. Kas’ wonderful new life crumbles beneath her as she knows it will soon come crashing down on them. Sileys (asylum seekers) are to be rounded up for work on new farms to help rebuild their civilisation. A bounty will be paid for each Siley captured and returned. Finn, Kas and their new friends know it’s time to run.

No matter their skills and knowledge of the area, there are too many soldiers, patrols and Ramage and Tusker still hell bent on their capture and Kas’ return. They are captured and separated, with Kas screaming Finn’s name.

Soon Finn is in court, with Ramage as the presiding judge. His sentence is a shock, but leaves him even more determined to save Kas from a life of slavery and misery.

They aren’t the only ones fighting back and help comes from unexpected places. Even so, Finn is up against high walls wrapped in razor wire, angry rebels on the run, and soldiers everywhere within multiple military checkpoints, before he can find Kas. He doesn’t realise his final brutal battle of survival is waiting for him, and all his time in the ocean has prepared him well.

With pulse pumping action, this trilogy of survival in a virus ridden apocalyptic world comes to a sensational conclusion. Again, the future is unclear as Finn, Kas and their friends are in and out of their enemy’s talons. A new world is emerging from the devastation of a deadly virus, but brutality and chaos still runs quick in some people’s veins.

Think Tomorrow When The War Began, but with a mutating virus as the enemy and many people on your own side even more deadly.

Love, determination and sheer guts finally reign supreme for Finn, Kas and their friends.

A gripping page turner, from the first page in The Road to Winter right through Wilder Country to the last page in Land of Fences.

Absolutely loved it.

Author – Mark Smith

Age – 14+

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(2019, Text Publishing, Australia, Apocalypse, Mutating Virus, Alone, Fear, Courage, Slavery, Brutality, Murder, Crime, Hiding, Fighting back, Attack, Hope, Love, Guilt, Survival, Action, Grief, Loss, Rescue, Series, Conflict, Blended Family, Soldiers, Electricity, Order, Civilisation, Corruption, Racism, Prison)