{"id":1622,"date":"2012-12-06T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:53:55","slug":"ashes-by-ilsa-bick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"Ashes by Ilsa Bick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1631\" title=\"AShes\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AShes-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AShes-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AShes.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashes is the story of Alex, a girl with an incurable brain tumor, who runs away into the woods to come to terms with her illness and say goodbye to her deceased parents. \u00a0As if that weren&#8217;t depressing enough, an unexplained electromagnetic pulse suddenly strikes, killing most of the population, turning teens into zombies, and giving some of the survivors the power of heightened senses.<\/p>\n<p>With angry, eight-year-old Ellie and handsome Afghanistan War soldier Tom, Alex seeks answers to what has happened and fights for survival in a world where nothing is the same anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Alex is a good, strong main character. \u00a0Even with her new powers, it is easy to root for her and care about what befalls her. \u00a0This new world is a perilous one and the adventures of these characters are frightening and addictive, dark and creepy. \u00a0Note: \u00a0A sequel is planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashes is the story of Alex, a girl with an incurable brain tumor, who runs away into the woods to come to terms with her illness and say goodbye to her deceased parents. \u00a0As if that weren&#8217;t depressing enough, an unexplained electromagnetic pulse suddenly strikes, killing most of the population, turning teens into zombies, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ashes by Ilsa Bick<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-barbara-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}