"Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other "shepherds" who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead."
If you enjoy Stephen King's books, and you don't mind a bit of supernatural mixed in with your science fiction, this is the book for you. Wendig takes a premise that at first sounds supernatural and then brings in pure science and science fiction. In this near future, a pandemic is starting to sweep across the globe. Wendig makes this especially horrifying by basing it on a disease that already occurs in animals. The way he thoroughly covers it in the book, it's completely believable and very frightening. Really good character development, and a lot of diversity in characters as well, which I really appreciated.
By the way --- is it just me, or is this new Blogger interface a pain in the butt? My posts are late because the Labels kept locking up . . .
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