As a small child, Eve loses her mother to the virus and her life is never the same.

The year of 2023 brings a deadly virus to humanity and wipes out most of mankind on Earth. Rise is scheduled for publication in 2013 and it will be on the top of my TBR list! I cannot wait for Anna Carey’s last book in the series. The end was exactly what I was hoping it wouldn’t be - a torture-some cliffhanger. Reviewing this book was difficult for me because I just didn’t want to give anything away! So many things about the story unraveled and took shape in Once that it left me gripping its pages as I read. I could clearly picture that New America beginning in the city of Vegas and taking shape. The use of the buildings and locations within the city were amazing. The City of Sand is actually what used to be Las Vegas, Nevada. Not to mention the setting was brilliant. There were so many unexpected turns in the storyline. The secrets that unravel from that moment on left me spellbound. Just as quickly, Eve is taken to the City of Sand in New America and straight to the King. They leave Califia together and end up captured and separated again, which broke my heart. It was a character I loved and thought contributed to making Eve a much tougher girl, so I was pleased to see that person back.

In the beginning of Once, a character returns that I wasn’t quite expecting to find in the story again. The flow between these first two books in the series is wonderful. If you haven’t read it, you probably wouldn’t need to in order to follow, but I would greatly recommend not missing a moment of this story. There is a brief retelling of the events from the prequel, Eve. Once begins 3 months into Eve’s life in Califia.

In this breathless sequel to 'Eve,' Anna Carey returns to her tale of romance, adventure, and sacrifice in a world that is both wonderfully strange and chillingly familiar. She must make a desperate choice to save the ones she loves. When she discovers Caleb is alive, Eve attempts to flee her prison so they can be together-but the consequences could be deadly. Trapped inside the City walls, Eve uncovers a shocking secret about her past-and is forced to confront the harsh reality of her future. When Eve gets word that Caleb is in trouble, she sets out into the wild again to rescue him, only to be captured and brought to the City of Sand, the capital of The New America. She's living in Califia, a haven for women, protected from the terrifying fate that awaits orphaned girls in The New America.īut her safety came at a price: She was forced to abandon Caleb, the boy she loves, wounded and alone at the city gates. For the first time since she escaped from her school many months ago, Eve can sleep soundly.

Once by anna carey