3.5 stars 
 I liked this book well enough, but there were a couple things that drove me crazy about it. I loved the beginning, even though I could see how it might be hard for some people to follow with the way it jumped back and forth between "Then" and "Now"- for me, I had no issue following it. I felt it was written in a way that was descriptive, beautiful and simplistic, and this really brought the scenes to life for me. I appreciated that the MC, Zoe, was real...what I mean by that is she seemed to be and do the things that someone who was living her life before "White Horse" and then followed the path that she took after the disease, would do. It wasn't unrealistic. Of course such a major world event would change everyone, but in some ways people would maintain parts of who they were- especially people not affected by the disease...or at least I would prefer to believe that. 
 The bad guy, "The Swiss", was just annoying to me on so many levels, and I really thought the girls would be more resourceful and beat his brains out or something long before it got to the point it made it to. I was sadly disappointed that it didn't happen that way...oh how I hoped I would get to read a scene where that @$$hole's brains were splattered on the ground beneath Zoe's boot.(I hope that doesn't make me sound like I'm crazy, but really, The Swiss truly deserved it!) I think that is what drove me crazy the most, I really wanted to see that jerk get what was coming to him and (view spoiler)[a lot sooner! Unfortunately that's not how things happened, and the story continued on with having to deal with the prick! Who he ultimately winds up being is a shocker, though...and I was truly surprised. I'm just so glad that Zoe ended up getting away with her baby and made it to Nick's parents. (hide spoiler)] The ending surprise was the best, and I am looking forward to reading the 2nd book in the trilogy just to see where things go from the end of this one. It's a crazy, messed up world that these characters are living in, that's for sure! Alex Adams has a crazy, beautiful mind to have thought this world up...it's a truly creepy and living nightmare on Earth.