Title: Eat the Light

Author: Andrew Najberg

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Light-Horror-Andrew-Najberg-ebook/dp/B0GF9YFXQT/

Summary

The world fell to darkness while they were locked away. They survived.

The day Elissa and Tabitha’s father came home from work brandishing a shotgun, the sisters found themselves locked in a secret fallout shelter beneath their home.

With no one else to teach them to survive and signs of the apocalypse occurring around them, the girls learn to navigate their new reality while facing a question that threatens to devastate everything they thought they understood…

How did their father know to shut them in when he did?

When they finally emerge into the outside world, they find their neighborhood transformed: deserted buildings decay, rain corrodes and poisons, and mysterious, glowing beings the girls call shimmer people stalk the streets.

Uncertain who among the few remaining people they can trust, the girls set out on an odyssey across their city as Elissa feels a mysterious compulsion to lead her sister up the mountain on the edge of town.

Faced with horror of survival no child should ever have to imagine, join two final girls who must rely on each other to face a terrifying world that is no longer meant for them. From Andrew Najberg, the bestselling author of The Mobius Door.

My Review

5/5 Stars

For all the post-apocalyptic books I’ve ever read, I’ve never thought about what would it be like to be a child going through it. Eat the Light puts you in this very perspective by telling the story through the eyes of Elissa and Tabby, and of course, their stuffed companions, Pom-Pom and Bearly. With monsters known as Shimmer People roaming the world, will they be able to support each other long enough to make it out of the bunker and up to the mountain or will the darkness consume them?

I’ve read Gollitok by Najberg in the past and loved that the prose is not only beautifully written but that it’s also metaphoric too. That was the case in this book as well.

Tabby and Elissa were such wonderfully done characters. The dual POV of their lives after leaving the bunker and their time inside of it meeting in the middle was clever, and I didn’t see that ending coming. Even a day after finishing the book, I’m still thinking about it. Just as I’m still thinking about what the phrase “Eat the Light” actually means.

If you want to read a beautifully tragic book about the end of the world, don’t miss this one!