Epitaph Road
David Patneaude
3.43 · 14 ratings · Published: 01 Jan 2010
But there's a price to pay for this new "utopia," which fourteen-year-old Kellen is all too familiar with. Every day, he deals with life as part of a tiny minority that is purposefully kept subservient and small in numbers. His career choices and relationship options are severely limited and controlled. He also lives under the threat of scattered recurrences of the plague, which seem to pop up wherever small pockets of men begin to regroup and grow in numbers.
And then one day, his mother's boss, an iconic political figure, shows up at his home. Kellen overhears something he shouldn't--another outbreak seems to be headed for Afterlight, the rural community where his father and a small group of men live separately from the female-dominated society. Along with a few other suspicious events, like the mysterious disappearances of Kellen's progressive teacher and his Aunt Paige, Kellen is starting to wonder whether the plague recurrences are even accidental. No matter what the truth is, Kellen cares only about one thing--he has to save his father.
- sc-fi 4
- dystopia 3
- apocalyptic 3
- post-apocalyptic 3
- action / adventure 2
- survival 2
- mystery 2
- futuristic 2
- epidemy/disease 2
- children 2
- horror 1
- family 1
- disaster/catastrophe 1
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- format - reader age
- young adult 3
- middle grade 1
- book 1