Lois Hill

I got the book to read the Nina story. Picked out a few other familiar & liked authors to read:

-- Last of the Red-Lead Fleet by Nancy Holder
DNF, war on ships *yawn*

-- Twenty Years Later, By Separation Peak by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DNF, government *yawn*

-- Waging Peace by Nina Kiriki Hoffman 3*
MC is a peace protestor. He witnesses an odd leader of the protest. She starts young and ages as she leads the group on. [ Turns out to be some kind of experiment/prototype involving the heart of Joan of Arc. She was burned at the stake but her heart didn't burn. I guess he witnessed scientists taking the experiment out for a trial (hide spoiler)]

-- Playing in the Street by Dean Wesley Smith 4*
I liked the slow reveal of this story. We know something bad has happened to the town but don't understand what it is yet. (Reminds me of The Bird Box in that way.) The MC who is elderly is the only one that is allowed in the quarantined area. He returns to his home which is in this area, again and again. He is visiting his dead parents. They died in bed the night the bad thing happened when he was a young man. There they lay over the decades. The full story is revealed through time jumps over three generations.… (meer)