When a new and terrible epidemic called Medusa starts turning people to stone, a small group of (supposedly) random people are put into cryogenic pods, in the hope that they'll survive long enough for a cure to be found. Something goes wrong, which of course it does, and they wake to a world overrun by mutant thorn bushes and dinosaur-like monsters, evolution gone haywire. The cryogenic facility is deserted, they're isolated in a random location and being picked off by mutants, and the disease is still progressing... at least in some of them.

This is a fun read, and I'm looking forward to the next instalment. I'm more interested in the mystery and the world-building than the characters though, sad to say. Granted this is only the first volume, but they seem fairly paint-by-numbers at this point, and, annoyingly, most of them don't seem to have names. Maybe it's just me, but if I were trying to navigate my way through a post-apocalyptic landscape with a small band of compatriots, I'd take the time to ask their bloody names instead of bellowing "Hey you!" or "Little boy!" across the landscape at any given opportunity. Main character Kasumi is one of the exceptions, and I get the feeling she's not quite the shrinking violet she thinks she is...