The Rending and the Nest by Kaethe Schwehn, The Book of M by Peng Shepherd, Pandemic by AG Riddle, The Synapse Sequence by Daniel Godfrey, Awakened by James S Murray and Darren Wearmouth
Kaethe Schwehn’s gripping first novel The Rending and the Nest (Bloomsbury, £18.99) is an addition to the overflowing post-apocalyptic subgenre. In the aftermath of the Rending, which caused 95% of Earth’s population, animals and food inexplicably to disappear, a remnant of humanity scratches a living in scattered enclaves. Seventeen-year-old Mira lives with a disparate group of survivors in a midwestern settlement called Zion, where the sky is continuously grey and the temperature a cool 55F, strange new plants provide fruit for sustenance, and humans scavenge through the Piles – mysterious drifts of debris left over from the Rending. Mira is a complex, well-drawn character, by turns vulnerable and adolescent, then tough and resourceful, as everything she has ever known is ripped away and certainty is replaced by doubt. The reason for the Rending is never explained, and Schwehn is not so much concerned about the why of her premise as its consequences: Mira’s maturing humanity, her loves and loyalties, and how she comes to face situations even stranger and more disturbing than the initial Rending.
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