Severance

"Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.

Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?" - Goodreads

This was a slow burn for me, took a good 100 pages for me to really want to pick the book up to read. But once I got invested I really enjoyed it! Interesting to read post COVID and gave a lot of food for thought about how we would navigate a pandemic on an even more devastating scale. I think for a casual reader this book may not be your cup of tea, but if you can put in the effort at the beginning there is payoff at the end. - Anna