Happy Thanksgiving y’all! I’m thankful for you, books, and blog tours- especially the one I’m on today! Thank you so much to TBR and Beyond Tours for having me as a part of their tour for The Q by Amy Tintera! I really liked this book!
The Q 4/5 Stars
Summary from Goodreads:
In this action-packed adventure from a New York Times bestselling author, two teenagers from opposite worlds must fight their way through a vast walled quarantine zone in a dystopian America toward their only chance for survival.
Seventeen-year-old Maisie Rojas has spent her entire life in the Q–a post-pandemic quarantine zone that was once Austin, Texas. Born and raised behind the high security walls that sealed their fate, she’s now a trusted lieutenant for one of the territory’s controlling families.
Lennon Pierce, the charismatic son of a US presidential candidate, has just been kidnapped by his father’s enemies and dropped out of a plane into the Q with nothing but a parachute strapped to his back. Lennon is given a temporary antidote to the disease and crucial intel for his father, but Maisie must get him out of the zone within forty-eight hours–or he will be permanently infected and forced to remain.
With unrest brewing both inside and outside the Q, reaching the exit is a daunting and dangerous task. But if Maisie and Lennon fail, it could mean disaster for the entire quarantine zone and its inhabitants–and could cost Lennon his life.
Strap in for breakneck action and compelling characters in this timely, nonstop thriller.
You would think that after living in a pandemic for the past almost 4 years, we’d be done with them, but man, I really like the way that Amy Tintera did the pandemic in The Q and the way the quarantine zone was created and everything about it really. I also really liked Maisie and Lennon and main characters and I thought all of our secondary characters were great too. The real inciting incidents, Lennon being kidnapped and dropped into the Q, Dr. Lopez dying, political unrest in the Q etc, really made this book what it was. I really enjoy Amy Tintera’s writing style- she always makes it so that I want to keep reading and I can never put my book down (to the detriment of all of the other things I need to be doing, like making mac and cheese or coffee cake like I was supposed to yesterday when I was reading The Q instead). Plot and pacing wise, towards the end, when we started getting some of the fight scenes back to back, I started getting slightly confused pacing wise, but it wasn’t too much of an issue and it was easily rectified by skimming over one of the fight scenes again to make sure I really understood what was happening. Overall. I really enjoyed the Q and I think y’all will too! Make sure you pick it up today! Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Indigo | IndieBound
About the Author
Amy Tintera is the NYT bestselling author of thrilling novels for readers of all ages. Her books include the Reboot and Ruined series, and All These Monsters, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection. Her novels have been translated into 16 languages and sold into more than 20 territories.
She earned degrees in journalism and film and worked in Hollywood before becoming an author. Raised in Austin, Texas, she frequently sets her novels in the Lone Star state, but she now lives in Los Angeles, where there’s far less humidity, but not nearly enough Tex-Mex.
Her next book, The Q, will be out November 8, 2022 from Penguin Random House. Her adult debut, Listen for the Lie, will be published in early 2024 by Holt/Macmillan. Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Facebook
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