White Horse

author: Alex Adams

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.58

book published: 2012

rating: 3

read at: 2013/04/28

date added: 2013/04/28

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'White Horse' is the story of Zoe, a woman dealing with a world decimated by a strange disease. The story takes place in Zoe's present, as well as her past.



In the past, Zoe worked in a biochemical lab as a janitor. One day, she comes home to find that someone has left a strange vase in her apartment. Zoe can't decide what to do with this strange object. Slowly, people around her start to get violently ill and die. She has sessions with Alex, a psychiatrist, to try and cope. She travels to the library, where lists of the war dead are posted, to see if her lover is listed. Things get bleaker and bleaker.



In the present, we find Zoe in Europe, pregnant, surviving and trying to get to Greece where the babies father is. She rescues a woman who is also pregnant and blind. Zoe has learned that to survive in this world means to be cruel since women are valued so little. Along the way, they meet up with a man from Switzerland who initially offers protection, but eventually threatens and stalks Zoe and her unborn child.



It's a pretty bleak novel, but there are sparks of hope throughout. Interesting is Zoe's approach to staying alive and the acts of kindness that she needs to retain her humanity. It's an interesting approach to the end of the world, and I found it a compelling read.





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