White Horse
by Alex Adams
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47%
Critic Reviews: 36
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87%
Reader Ratings: 127
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Synopsis
The world has ended, but her journey has just begun. Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the president of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival... more
About Alex Adams
- All Critics: 36
- Positive: 22
- Negative: 14
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Kirkus Reviews | 10 Apr 2012
Adams has an excellent sense of timing, delivering gasp-inducing moments that punctuate her nightmare with verve.
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The Book Smugglers | 19 Apr 2012
I have a hard time swallowing The Swiss’s descent into madness and the cause for his sadistic cruelty and misogyny.
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Author Scoop | 25 Apr 2012
This isn’t for the squeamish. But what apocalypse really is, if we’re being honest? Highly recommended.
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S. Krishna's Books | 30 Apr 2012
It’s beautiful and haunting, with a surprise around every corner.
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JM Cornwell Review | 15 May 2012
There are few serial novels that have sparked my interest as much as Alex Adams's White Horse.
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Book Chick City | 22 May 2012
I found WHITE HORSE very interesting but irritating at first.
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Oregon Live | 14 Apr 2012
It draws to a compelling pause, with a pair of revelations in the final pages that should spur readers to a sequel.
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Jenn's Bookshelves | 18 Apr 2012
The intensity of this novel carries, unrelenting, throughout the entirety of the novel, the last few lines leaving me breathless.
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Janicu's Book Blog | 16 Apr 2012
This is a very dark and often gruesome tale.
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No More Grumpy Bookseller Blog | 4 May 2012
White Horse is both horrific and poetic and is utterly amazing!
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My Bookish Ways | 20 Apr 2012
White Horse moved me on many levels, and is frankly one of the best books that I’ve read this year.
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BookBound | 10 Apr 2012
I will go so far as to predict that this book will become a huge best-seller. It certainly deserves to be.
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Layers of Thought | 28 Apr 2012
Its “stream of consciousness” style and alternating timeframes sometimes made it feel choppy and confusing.
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My Shelf Confessions | 11 May 2012
White Horse has one of the most distinctive writing styles of any book I’ve ever read.
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Buried in Print | 8 May 2012
Raging and retching, gnawing and snarling, bruising and beating, hysteria and, yes, hope: White Horse is a horrifying gallop of a read.
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Fang-tastic Fiction | 15 May 2012
This is a terrific story, with its intricately structured interweaving of the two strands and an elegantly written, metaphorically rich narrative.
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Leafing Through Life | 20 Apr 2012
White Horse is packed with vivid characters, disturbing visions of a planet in the throes of a slow apocalypse, and twists that readers won't see coming.
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Damian Daily | 31 May 2012
It is gritty and powerful, emotionally intense, and at times a nail-biting thriller.
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Scrinanbbles | 21 Apr 2012
There is so much about this book that doesn’t work for me.
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The Qwillery | 17 Apr 2012
White Horse is a horrifying look at a post-apocalyptic world that shows us that our humanity is a reflection of our inner landscape and how we act.
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The Guilded Earlobe | 27 Apr 2012
White Horse shares many elements with The Road, the darkly beautiful landscapes, the character’s journey both physically and introspectively.
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A Bookworm's World | 16 Apr 2012
While I find her a strong lead character, I never felt fully engaged with her, despite cheering for her to beat the odds.
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Beautiful Life | 24 Apr 2012
I found myself having to re-read paragraphs several times over trying to get my head around exactly what the author was trying to communicate.
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Feeling a Little Bookish | 26 Mar 2012
I really enjoyed Adams' writing style and I couldn't put this book down.
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Waiting for Fairies | 16 Apr 2012
I didn’t hate it, but I did find it disturbing and depressing.
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The Australian Bookshelf | 10 May 2012
The world is quite vividly painted without any info dumping or need to over-describe as the author tells it as it is simply and on an as-needs-basis.
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Fiction State of Mind | 16 Apr 2012
Gorgeous writing and a solid lead character but some clunky story directions that I couldn't get past.
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Devourer of Books | 19 Apr 2012
Adams has created a fascinating apocalyptic world.
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Dark Faerie Tales | 10 Apr 2012
The world-building is a bit much combining disease, war, weather, Pandora’s Box and genetic manipulation,
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Darlene's Book Nook | 11 Apr 2012
There are graphic scenes of rape and incest, as well as violence, which took me by surprise because I incorrectly assumed this was a Young Adult dystopian.
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Tara Calaby | 23 Apr 2012
The vast amount of metaphor, simile and personification meant that I struggled a little to get past the language to the plot.
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An Adventure in Reading | 5 Apr 2012
It's pretty gruesome in parts, but I read a little fast over those parts, sort of with my fingers covering my view.
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Books & Reviews | 19 May 2012
It took me some time to get use to reading this book and even longer to like the main character, Zoe.
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Stephanie's Written Word | 15 Apr 2012
The best part of White Horse was the protagonist Zoe, who still holds on to her belief in humanity in this most inhumane world.
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Hooked on Books | 1 May 2012
This is a great example of quality dystopian lit.
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Something To Write About | 22 Apr 2012
Devoured all 292 pages in 1 day. Expectations met and exceeded.
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