BLOOD ON THE LEAVES
by REBELLE ArchedEyebrow Publications
🏃 What are you willing to do for your survival?
- Genre
- Action
- Chapters
- 10
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 158
16+Review by Julia ·
Losing Kara was the beginning of the end for Faren. It was a springtime infection where stories about people returning from the dead gathered.
By summertime, there was a whole new world where the dead did not stay dead for long. It all started very slowly, with dead people rising after two days. There was time to burn the bodies, but then it turned into one day.
Eventually, it turned into a few hours, and then right after contamination, people would drop dead. The number of dead was overwhelming, even with the help of the military. Luckily, Faren was one of the humans left who was immune to infection.
She decided to go into hiding, never wanting to be found by central command. Eventually, she was discovered, and a choice had to be made.
Themes Discussed in Blood on the Leaves
♀️ Female resilience
😔 Post-apocalyptic survival
💂 Militarization vs humanity
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+
Reasons to Read Blood on the Leaves
💥 High-stakes action scenes
👩🏻 Complex female protagonist
🧠 Psychological intensity
Meet The Main Characters
👩🏽 Faren
She was once an ordinary woman who lived a quiet life. Faren is immune to the contamination but hunted by central command for her blood. The grief she holds for Kara is also her strength.
👱🏻♀️ Kara
Faren’s partner, who is lost to the contamination but resurrected as something else. Her death shapes Faren’s choice. Kara’s story may not be as final as Faren believes.
💔This is a tragic romance that explores survival and lost love.
BLOOD ON THE LEAVES synopsis
Losing Kara was only the beginning of the end for Faren...
It was a hay-fever from Hell; it began as little stories here and there during the springtime but by the time Summer came there was a new world where the dead didn't stay dead for long. It started slowly, the dead rising two days after death, it gave them time to burn the bodies but then it turned into one day, to a few hours to right after contamination... the dead overwhelmed them even with the help of the military.
Faren was one of the few hundred humans left that were immune to the contamination. Many of those humans, including Faren, went into hiding never wanting to be found by Central Command. It wasn't long before she was found and a choice had to be made...
Read BLOOD ON THE LEAVES – Prologue
“Kara, keep up.” I shouted behind me, the fire alarm almost drowning me and the snarling out… almost.
The group that was ahead kept widening the distance between us, making it harder for me to know which way to go; I couldn’t blame them for leaving Kara and I though… we all wanted to live. Those things were fast, but they stumbled a lot and that worked in our favor. Not only was I trying to save myself, but I was going to save Kara as well.
We made a sharp right around a corner heading towards D Hall for the freshman. Nothing looked as it had this morning; blood and soot smeared the walls, walls that were cracked and breaking away, huge slabs of concrete littered the halls as classroom blazed and smoldering pieces of paper hanging from the walls lit our way. The school was a wasteland now…
Angry growls echoed from behind us. I didn’t dare glance back to see what had them so upset, but I could chance a look at Kara. Peaking back, I almost stumbled noticing how far Kara had fallen behind and how long it had taken me to notice. If I didn’t move her faster, she was going to die, and I couldn’t let that happen… not to Kara.
Seeing that I had finally noticed her she called out to me. “Fare, I can’t breathe. I need my inhaler.”
Tropes
- Sci-fi
- Witty
- Young Adult
- LGBTQ+
- Romance
- Action
- New Adult