baronessekat | 2019 reading challenge: A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book

Orleans by Sherri L. Smith

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

After climate change has caused a series of increasingly stronger and stronger hurricanes to hit the gulf coast resulting in damage, death and the rise of a deadly disease called Delta Fever, the United States has walled off the area and left the people behind the wall to die.

The year is 2056 and it's been 30 years since the Outer States wrote off the area but Orleans (formerly New Orleans) still survives, though people have banded into tribes based on blood type in order to keep the Delta Fever in check, sort of.

Fen, a young woman from an O-positive tribe finds herself and a newborn baby the sole survivors of an attack on her tribe. She vows to get the babe out of the Delta and to the Outer States while she is still clean and doesn't become a carrier.

Daniel, a scientist from the Outer States has been working on a vaccine for the Fever, but needs more data and sneaks into the Delta to get it.

The two have to team up in order to survive and maybe help protect one little baby girl.

I liked the book and am glad I read it. I am intrigued enough to possibly look for more by this author.

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