A Touch of Death by Rebecca CrundenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a 3-star review. That accurately represents my experience.
Some sort of biological/chemical warfare has dramatically altered the Earth. The survivors lived underground for years and upon emerging, had to live with the resulting environment.
The rules that work for a society limited by the needs of living underground are grafted onto a society with much more room above ground. The new government is quite authoritarian and forms a sort of modern royalty caste. Those with connections get the goodies.
Within the narrative of the book, it is suggested that attempting to live beyond the range of this society is a death sentence. Yet people have done just that and survived.
There is an underground/resistance movement of sorts.
The biggest plot hole for me was the suggestion that people couldn't live anywhere else despite there being strong proof that they could. Simply leaving is the one solution that is left largely unexplored.
The other weakness is the contrivance of main character's dilemma. Two characters just happen to be hiking when a storm comes and drives them into an abandoned building. That building just happened to be the place where a specific scientist had done experimental research years before. Residue from one of the research projects was still present and the characters become compromised. Too many coincidences all stacked up together.
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