I liked the book well enough, so I decided to go for 4 stars, it really drew me in most of the time.

I was on the verge of giving three because a couple of things bothered me. First, it might be a minor issue to others, but it irked me to no end: What's with the myth of being able to accurately kill someone by throwing a knife? This Hollywood trope is just not true, and is used repeatedly during the book. That's just sloppy research.

Also, it bothered me that the author called the disease the "Georgia Flu". To be fair to her, I guess the real pandemic and Trump's "Wuhan flu" are to be blamed for my feelings here, something the author could not have known at the time this book was written.