“I couldn’t stop reading; mesmerized by this engrossing story of human survival at its worst. Eden Shepherd mentioned she was a fan of Jane Austen; too bad she hadn’t read William Golding. She might have been better prepared for what the year from hell had in store for her and her high school counterparts.
As the countdown continued and days remaining of her year-long survival grew fewer I began to care about Eden’s future and made me wonder to what levels I would go to survive in a situation a tenth of the intensity of Moneyland. I fear the traits Eden and her fellow survivalists exhibited are not buried all that deep within us.
Michael Botur is a talented author with the ability to draw you into the lives of his created characters – often against your will. “
—Liz Lindsay, author on M
