In the early 22nd century the people of earth all as one hear a collective message in their heads, telling them that all children conceived from the day before onwards will be born a different kind of human and that no other 'normal' humans will be born for 40 years.

It's an interesting concept and one that led me to pick up this book as it's a mystery I was very curious to get to the bottom of.

Ultimately I felt like the story didn't quite work for me. Most of this book was set 600 years in the future after this new race of humans has been established for a long time. In the years in-between the earth has been ravaged and the political situation is fragile. However I really wanted to read more about the early years of this massive change, and we only got a small amount of this time period laced throughout the book.

There was a lot going on, but I felt like it didn't totally gel together as a cohesive whole. The book ended fairly suddenly and I understand it's the start of a series, but I felt like it was mainly set up for the rest of the books.

Overall, promising but didn't entirely work for me.

* A review will be posted to my tiktok within a week.

This was a strong start to the Scorched Earth series, it had everything that I was looking for and enjoyed about the concept from the description. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and how they fit in this world. It was everything that I wanted and was glad I got to read this from Sandra Macek.