Thank you to NetGalley/Tor Nightfire for the e-arc! Definitely check the TWs for this one, but I just want to highlight it does include graphic animal death. :(

Imagine having your coming-of-age experience at the worst possible time. Sophie, a sheltered teenager raised in a strictly Catholic household with basically no exposure to the outside world, meets a handsome boy and starts feeling things (shameful, embarrassing things in the Catholic perspective) right before all Hell breaks loose. There's a virus rapidly spreading through the US turning people into basically sex zombies.

It's a story about fighting for survival as much as it is about questioning the things Sophie was raised to believe. The writing immediately sucked me in and really put me in her mind. I could feel her constant guilt and simmering hate through the pages as things turned from bad to worse, and then the horror, desperation, and hopelessness as everything devolves to the point of no return. Though it took a few chapters for the plot to get going, the stakes never stopped increasing. Even when the characters tried to relax, the sense of dread never ceased and I found myself just waiting for something else horrible to happen. And oh boy, it sure did. The climax kind of wrecked me.

There is a lot going on in this story, and at times I thought it didn't quite juggle it all effectively. Not poorly enough to hinder my enjoyment, but enough for me to think about it after the fact. I already planned on picking up Maeve Fly at some point, but I'm going to bump that up on my priority list.