A virus has infected the United States, turning ordinary
people into rabid, blood sucking monsters called Ticks. The
surviving children are rounded up and shipped to Farms for
their protection, but as time stretches and the Ticks still
roam, there is little hope of ever going back home.
Lily and Mel are twin sisters fast approaching their 18th
birthday. That would have been a time for excitement in the
Before. But on the Farm when kids turn eighteen, they
disappear. They say the kids are released to return to
their families, but Lily doesn't believe it. It's been
months since any news of the outside world has reached them
and Lily fears that there is no outside world left. Lily
and Mel would have a hard enough time escaping under the
best of circumstances, but Mel's autism has pushed her into
regressing. Now she can only communicate through nursery
rhymes and Lily can't always understand what Mel is trying
to tell her. When an old crush from school arrives at the
Farm offering to help Lily and Mel escape, Lily doesn't
know whether to trust Carter or run in the opposite
direction, but Mel trusts him and despite her misgivings,
Lily knows she and Mel can't escape without his help.
THE FARM by Emily McKay is a modern-day dystopia that
combines vampire and zombie fears into one terrifying
story. While the horror elements are very real and very
well done, the relationship between Lily and Mel is my
favorite part of the book. I have sisters and Mckay
perfectly captures the frustration, love, fear, and
devotion that sisters have towards each other. Mel's
inability to communicate in no way diminishes her impact on
the story and the chapters from Mel's point of view are
strongly written and beautifully evocative. It's all the
distinct voices that come together to create such a rich
and terrifying story.
Like all great horror stories, THE FARM strikes at the
heart of humanity. It takes extraordinary circumstances and
plays out the very real human reactions during terrifying
times. While the monsters are scary, it's what humans will
do to each other that is the real horror. It's also the
amazing courage and hope that humans also exhibit that
touch the heart.
Darkly imagined with every fear barely contained beneath
the surface, THE FARM is a terrifying beginning to what
looks to be an awesome series.
Life was different in the Before: before vampires began
devouring humans in a swarm across America; before the
surviving young people were rounded up and quarantined.
These days, we know what those quarantines are — holding
pens where human blood is turned into more food for the
undead monsters, known as Ticks. Surrounded by electrical
fences, most kids try to survive the Farms by turning on
each other…
And when trust is a thing of the past, escape is nearly
impossible.
Lily and her twin sister Mel have a plan. Though Mel can
barely communicate, her autism helps her notices things no
one else notices — like the portion of electrical fence
that gets turned off every night. Getting across won’t be
easy, but as Lily gathers what they need to escape, a
familiar face appears out of nowhere, offering to help…
Carter was a schoolmate of Lily’s in the Before. Managing
to evade capture until now, he has valuable knowledge of
the outside world. But like everyone on the Farm, Carter
has his own agenda, and he knows that behind the Ticks is
an even more dangerous threat to the human race...
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