Author: Michaela Roessner

What if 90 percent of the world's population suddenly vanished? What would the survivors be like a generation or so later? What cultural changes, biological changes, psychological changes may have transpired? This book explores it all in an interesting story that focuses mainly on one of the survivor groups that lives in and around the Winchester Mystery House.

The House itself is fascinating, as are the questions and possible answers about why all those people disappeared, will they ever return, and could it happen again. I found the characters well-drawn, and particularly liked the female characters of three separate generations who are all involved in one way or another in looking at what has occurred.

Survival details are good, not just focused on how one person can survive on their own, but how entire societies can survive after a catastrophic event, and how those societies will evolve differing belief systems based on their perspective of the event.

Excitement, physics, character development, exploration of cultures are all included here, with strong female characters. I've re-read this book several times and always enjoy it.