In a world plunged into chaos by a devastating disease known as Blanchard Syndrome, the remnants of humanity are confined to a mysterious facility, where teenagers are subjected to horrific experiments under the guise of finding a cure. Ella has already lost too much. Now trapped inside a crumbling world ruled by fear, cruelty, and impossible choices, she must fight to protect the people she cares about while uncovering the truth about the facility and the man who controls it all.
Dr. Blanchard may claim he is saving humanity, but his methods are brutal, his secrets are monstrous, and the line between science and madness grows thinner by the day. The facility, a microcosm of a crumbling society, is a battleground where morality is tested, alliances are formed, and the will to live is challenged at every turn. As the fabric of society within the facility begins to unravel, Ella and her friends must confront the harsh realities of their existence and make life-altering decisions.
Overall, this was a really solid take on the style. The main storyline here comes together rather nicely, from the initial build-up of the virus spreading throughout society by having sex and the inability to deal with the ramifications of what's going on, which requires the survivors to be rounded up and placed in a controlled, confined prison-like facility that begins holding those unaffected by the virus as a safety net, making for a strong starting point. This sets everything up to dive into the various characters in the facility as they're forced to relearn how to deal with each other, coming from the various social backgrounds they had in the normal world, creating the kind of sympathetic turn that makes far more sense once the various experiments that are being conducted against them start to get more overtly ominous and obvious that something’s going on. This all comes about in a brief, shorter timeline that could’ve been expanded and fleshed out even more than it is, as the novella length of everything makes it feel rushed, but that’s a minor quibble against this one.
4.5/5
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