Oh dear, this book was just not at all to my liking. There was to much 'telling' the story and not enough 'showing' or putting the reading in the action. Most bio-terror apocalyptic novels (like the beginning of Station Eleven) have my heart RACING. And this was just so... boring. I really don't know how she pulled that off. Maybe just too much teen introspection? It's hard to even give a small plot summary: there were too many conspiracies, too much going on, and the pacing was just bad. There were a few poetic passages in there, and I could see the important themes she was trying to comment upon. It just didn't come together for me.