This conflict leads to disastrous consequences. The battle, of course, is between those who knows what lies out there and one who must see it for herself. The dangerous horizon beckons, and it is only a matter of time before she goes, with or without Maeve and Mam. She is frustrated by the silence with which her questions are met. There is ongoing conflict as Orpen gets older and feels more and more constricted by island life.
The real story is about the relationship between Orpen, Mam, and Maeve and how they have learned to cope on their own. If you are not a fan of zombies, don’t worry they are more of a looming, background threat for most of the book. They are difficult, even with training, for one adult person to put down. They are more like Max Brooks type zombies from World War Z. The Skrake are not the slow, shuffling, George A. Orpen wants to be a banshee, but more importantly, she wants to see what has become of the world. There are superheroes called the banshee, women warriors, who fight the Skrake.
There are the walking dead monsters called Skrake, who want to eat human flesh. There are the standard n who are assumed to all be potential rapists and killers. They train her relentlessly every day to prepare for monsters she has never met. She has a hunger to know what lies beyond, in places she has only read about and gleaned from parents reluctant to talk about what came before. Orpen sometimes paddles out in a boat far enough to see the coast of Ireland. The bridge is ruined, chopped in half by something so big, something disastrous.”
Everyone thought a little place like this was a good idea, across water, away from the cities and towns. It used to stretch the whole way to Ireland, and even now it’s packed full of cars, like massive dead beetles, relics from a time long past, all quiet and finished but not a single one empty. ”From here you can see what remains of the old bridge, a long road over sea between our island and the mainland, built with cement and steel and wire. Orpen, with her mom and her mom’s partner Maeve, live on an island off the coast of Ireland. The civilized world has come to a screeching halt through an apocalypse of great magnitude. I kept going till I first read the word ‘banshee,’ and that was only the start, so it was.”įor all of her short life, Orpen has been told what to be afraid of and how to fight what she must be afraid of. I went further all the time, out to places I wasn’t meant to go on my own, and I ate up the pictures of businesses and towns and cities and countries. In the houses, in old papers, there was more of it, signs of people all gathered up. I looked all around the island with a hunger in me to know more about how it was when the world was whole.
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