Monsters

Ashes Series

Author: Ilsa J. Bick

Book 3 in the Ashes series

Pages: 608

Published: 2013

Age: 12+

When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse – until the doctors found the monster in her head.

She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death.

Now, with no hope of rescue—on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit—she discovers a new and horrifying truth.

The Change isn't over.
The Changed are still evolving.
And . . . they've had help.

With this final volume of the Ashes trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick delivers a riveting, blockbuster finish, returning readers to a brutal, post-apocalyptic world where no one is safe and hope is in short supply. A world where, from these ashes, the monsters may rise.

About the Ashes Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Ashes(2011)
  2. 2.Shadows(2012)
  3. 3.Monsters(2013)

Reading age: 14+ years

This series should be read in order.

It could happen tomorrow . . .

An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions.

Alex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to learn the meaning of the pulse, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP.

For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it’s now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.

Author Ilsa J. Bick crafts a terrifying and thrilling post-apocalyptic novel about a world that could become ours at any moment, where those left standing must learn what it means not just to survive, but to live amidst the devastation.