Four-star review for Fortune Falls by Lou Vane
The first book in a relatively new series begins slowly with
a group of older teenagers attending a leadership camp where the instructors
are not much older than they are. Friendships form quickly and the lessons
prepare them for skills they don’t expect to use often like scaling mountains.
Jess, one of the students, connects with Matt and Priya on the bus to the camp
and thereafter they spend a lot of time together, but a triangle forms,
unnecessarily for me, between Jess, Matt and one of the instructors, Ethan.
Their week is over and they’re about to head home when word comes of an
epidemic that’s led to quarantines. The action picks up after that with
searches for ways to leave and failing that, to survive the coming winter. Of
course, there are more people thrown into the mix and a few deaths along the
way as the story becomes more dystopian than apocalyptic. This was a quick read
and I’m still not sure what Jess’ previous personality was, but I enjoyed it
enough to read more of the series.
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