This is a 2028 horror novel by Paul G Tremblay.
This book is about 7-year-old Wen and her two dads. She tells she is happy she has two dads as some kids think that is cool and some tease her on that fact. She just tunes them out.The family take a vacation to a cabin somewhere near the Canadian border. While there, Wen goes out to catch grasshoppers. Her dads told her to come get them if a stranger shows up, even though there are no cabins for two miles. Suddenly after being focused on the grasshoppers, the biggest man she has ever seen shows up. Wen hesitates and the bei guy, named Leonard , reassures her he is no harm and would love to help catch grasshoppers with her.
The two of them catch grasshoppers and she notices three more people coming and carrying what appears to be weapons that look like a scythe. Leonard assures her they all just want o talk to her dads. Wen is spooked and runs inside the house to get away. Here dads look out and lock the doors and windows and the strangers are knocking on the door to tlk with them about an a important issue.They wont let them and go for their gun. but, it is looked on the car outside
The strangers break in and on front the dads and ties them up. They say they mean no harm only want to talk. According to the strangers they four of them just met today and each had the same message come to them in their sleep and the dads are the only ones that can stop it. They tell them that the world will end if they don’t do it. they must sacrifice with death one of the fathers and they just decide.
There are television reports to confirm that mass destruction is happening all over the world and coming their way. The dad so NO. After many skirmishes and people getting hurt, the dads still won’t do it.
The book is apocalyptic in nature and somewhat weird. This book is good until the end when it goes very weak in the conclusion.
I give it 3 stars out of 5.