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Shattered Roads

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In a future darkened by environmental catastrophe, a woman known as H124 discovers a truth that will send her into the world beyond her city's walls.

Her designation is H124—a menial worker in a megacity safeguarded against the devastating storms of the outer world. In a community where consumerism has dulled the senses, where apathy is the norm and education a thing of the past, H124 has one job: remove the bodies of citizens when they pass away in their living pods.

One night, H124's routine leads her into the underground ruins of an ancient university. Buried within it is a prescient alarm set up generations ago: An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward earth.

When her warning is seen as an attempt to topple the government with her knowledge of science, H124 is hunted—and sent fleeing for her life beyond the shield of her walled metropolis. In a weather-ravaged unknown, her only hope lies with the Rovers, the most dangerous faction on Earth. For they have continued to learn. And they have survived to help avert a terrifying threat: The end of the world is near.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 9, 2018
      In this overly familiar near-future tale, one woman struggles with the threat of impending doom while her society ignores the approaching catastrophe. In this gloomy setting, most humans have forgotten the joys of living and are literally plugged into a vast entertainment network of reality shows. A few have escaped being plugged in, one being corpse disposal worker H124. On a cleanup job, she uncovers ancient information showing that Earth is in the path of an asteroid. Banding together with a group of people, the Rovers, who have secret scientific knowledge, H124 is determined to prevent humankind’s seemingly inevitable extinction. While Henderson aims at an inventive take on humanity’s future, this is nothing readers haven’t seen before, with a young, spunky heroine, unsurprising twists, and a plethora of emotional moments that seem stilted. Although Henderson’s writing has an energetic tone, the predictability of the plot bogs down the rest of the work.

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