This is a wonderful piece of young adult fiction! The two authors write alternating points of view from Marina and Jed, the two main characters as they live out what their church believes to be the end of days. Marina at 14 years is the oldest of six children whose fanatical mother follows Rev. Beelson to the top of a mountain to wait out the Armageddon he prophecized. Jed is the 16 year old son of a father who found comfort in Rev. Beelson after Jed's mother left for another man.
The writing follows each character as they leave their lives and head up to a camp on top of a mountain where only 144 people are going to be left alive to rebuild the earth in Jesus' name. The conflicting thoughts of the adolescents as they are pushed into adulthood from these extreme conditions are riveting.
Interspersed between the chapters are letters, sermons, and FBI files that keep the reader informed of all that is going on around the teens. As the two weeks on the mountain play out, the characters begin to see how dedicated the adults on the mountain really are; there is an electric fence that keeps the Believers locked in as much as it is keeping the non-Believers locked out; guns start appearing as soon as the population hits 144 people and things quickly turn downhill for the narrators as the story progresses.
It is a very well written book; and I really do not wish to give too much away in the review of it. Wonderfully entertaining and gripping. A great book!
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