By about half way through,I felt we hadn't really got very far with a plot,beyond half the world's population being wiped out (and now might not have been the time to be reading about that).
I found myself skim reading the next lot of pages .
Billie was a really irritating character.
This time,it wasn't the book for

‘The future is female’; but what if that was the truth? Imagine a world in which a mystery illness wiped out 99% of the world’s male population and that is the reality for Cole and her son Miles.
This is a story about survival and a mother’s love as Cole will do anything to protect her child from a new world who considers him a commodity to be held captive and experimented upon. Miles and Cole cannot go home but they can’t even look to their own family for help as even his aunt, Billie, look to gain from her nephew’s immunity.
The pair encounter so many different groups of women that I appreciated the range of behaviours attributed to them as Lauren Beukes shows women can be everything from nurturing caregivers to power-hungry and violent in society.
I enjoyed the fast paced aspect of this novel as they seek out a safe haven but the reality that they can’t even trust their own family means that you’re rooting for them from the offset. The entire world is after a child and the humanity they once knew has been altered forever. A brilliant and exciting new thriller that absorbs you in their fight for freedom from beginning to end.