Into the Mist (Into the Mist #1) by P.C. Cast

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As men fall to the mist, the age of womankind begins to rise

Bombs strike US cities and military sites, cause fires, explosions, sonic detonations, quakes, slides, and green mist. Breathed in, the toxin melts men into puddles of bloody clothes. But women may get strange new powers.

High school science teachers leaving an Oregon mountain conference find their blood may cause plants to grow suddenly. "Warrior" Mercury 30s is now incredibly strong and fast. "Seer" Stella 40s senses future, directs them, where and when, to go or stay. "Watcher" Imani gazes toward her lost family for hours. Christian "Priestess" Karen 50+ sees their powers act, in the spirit world, as a green glow.

"Healer" Gemma 16, then three children join after losing their respective parents. They meet bad and good people in their search for The Place to build their safe perfect new world.

My thoughts

This was a book that I started back in 2024.  It was a BorrowBox read that got put to one side as other people borrowed it and I just couldn't divert the time to it that I needed to when the copy was in.my hands.

This is a dystopian horror themed story and is the first of two books in the Into the Mist series by this Author.  It piqued my interest, as these are genres that I enjoy reading and it delivered to a certain extent.  At times I felt it plodded along and didn't maintain my interest quite as much as I wanted it too.

Telling the story of devastation in the US by many different forms, that leaves a green mist loitering behind that has dire consequences for the male of the population.  The green mist if breathed in by the males is killing them off, but is leaving the females with extra powers. 

As the females are moving across the US iin an attempt to escape what is happening and stay as safe as they can.  They find that they are banding together to form a new society and try to understand what the hell is happening, and what the powers that they are finding that they have acquired actually mean to them and the rest of the survivors.

I almost gave up on the story and it's not something that I do very often, but my curiousity got the better of me and I kept reading on until the end.