Alexandra Oliva

When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In the Dark, she knows that she will be tested to the limits of her endurance. Beating eleven competitors in a series of survival tasks deep in the forest, living on camera at the extremes of her comfort zone, will be the ultimate challenge before she returns home to start a family.

When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In the Dark, she knows that she will be tested to the limits of her endurance. Beating eleven competitors in a series of survival tasks deep in the forest, living on camera at the extremes of her comfort zone, will be the ultimate challenge before she returns home to start a family.

For readers of Station Eleven and The Passage comes a dazzling and unsettling novel of psychological suspense. In Alexandra Olivas thrilling fiction debut, survival is the name of the game, as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itselfand one womans mind and body are pushed to the limit.She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far.It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happensbut how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of thema young woman the shows producers call Zoostumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game.Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the lifeand husbandshe left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skillsand learn new ones as she goes.

Ela queria uma aventura. Mas nunca imaginou que chegaria to longe.Tudo começa em um reality show. Doze concorrentes so enviados ao coraço de uma floresta, para enfrentar desafios que testaro os limites de sua resistencia. Enquanto eles se dispersam pela natureza selvagem, uma catastrofe em larga escala acontece em todo o pais, sem que se saiba ao certo o que causou ou o tamanho exato da destruiço.Isolados da civilizaço, os concorrentes permanecem alheios a tudo. E quando a competidora a quem os produtores do programa chamam de Zoo se depara com a devastaço, ela imagina apenas que tudo e parte do jogo. Sozinha, desorientada e completamente alienada do que ocorre fora do seu campo de viso, Zoo reflete sobre a vida e o marido que deixou para tras, ao mesmo tempo em que reune todas as suas forças para no ser eliminada de um jogo que, aos seus olhos, adquire contornos cada vez mais macabros. Avançando em territorio desconhecido, ela deve se valer de todos os seus talentos para sobreviver. Mas a medida que suas reservas fisicas e emocionais parecem chegar ao fim, Zoo começa a se dar conta de que o mundo real, longe das cameras que ela mal enxerga, pode ter mudado de maneira drastica. Sofisticado e provocador, O que restou e um suspense de toques pos-apocalipticos, que nos faz refletir sobre o papel que a midia desempenha em nossa percepço do que e real, a rapidez com que julgamos e a facilidade com que nos deixamos manipular.

She was born for all the wrong reasons. But her search for the truth reveals answers she wishes she could bury in Forget Me Not, a suspenseful and deeply movingnear-future thrillerfrom the author of The Last One.A page-turning mystery . . . highly original, sharply insightful, and thoroughly riveting.Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of A Good MarriageWhat if your past wasnt what you thought?As a child, Linda Russell was left to raise herself in a twenty-acre walled-off property in rural Washington. The woods were her home, and for twelve years she lived oblivious to a stark and terrible truth: Her mother had birthed her only to replace another daughter who died in a tragic accident years before. Then one day Linda witnesses something she wasnt meant to see. Terrified and alone, she climbs the wall and abandons her home, but her escape becomes a different kind of trap when she is thrust into the modern worlda world for which she is not only entirely unprepared, but which is unprepared to accept her.And you couldnt see a future for yourself?Years later, Linda is living in bustling Seattle, but she has never felt more alone. With social media more ubiquitous than ever before, she is hounded by the society she is now forced to inhabit. When Linda meets a fascinating new neighbor who might just be a potential friend, and who shows her the possibility of a new escape through virtual reality, she begins to allow herself to hope for more by being sucked into a world that feels safe, but isnt real. What would it take to reclaim your life? Then an unexplained fire at her infamous childhood home jolts Linda back to reality. She must return to the property for the first time since she was a girl, unleashing a chain of events that will not only endanger her life but challenge her understanding of family, memory, and the world itself.

Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family over fifty yearsa bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human. The Radiant Dark is incandescent. Sarah Jessica ParkerIts March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. They have just had their first child, and though Carol is struggling with the challenges of new motherhood, her future seems clear. Until something extraordinary happens: an inexplicable flickering of light in the sky, which is ultimately determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are eleven light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist too. And so begins a decades-long exchange of messages with this mysterious, faraway civilization. As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family: Carol, whose fascination with this other life sparks a desperate search for spiritual meaning; Michael, her loyal son, who finds solace not in the stars above his head but in the ground beneath his feet; and Ro, Carols bright and ambitious daughter, whose childhood goal to work in interstellar communication will evolve into something far grander. Tracing five decades of love, loss, ambition, and self-discovery, The Radiant Dark is a stunning examination of a family navigating their lives with the knowledge that we are not alone.

Taut, tense and at times almost unbearably realSunday Times bestseller Ruth WareA smart twist on the apocalypse Reader ReviewShows what impact our times have on the ways we think. A compelling entry into the post-apocalypse genreKirkus***She wanted an adventure. But what if it never ends?When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In The Dark, shes hoping for a challenge. Facing eleven competitors, shes prepared for her physical and mental strength to be tested in a series of unforgiving survival tasks.But as her fellow contestants are overcome by hunger, injury and psychological breakdown, Zoo becomes increasingly afraid. Because the deserted TV set and gruesome props are starting to feel all too real.Is there something theyre not telling Zoo about the world outside?

Ella buscaba aventura pero nunca pensó que llegaría tan lejos.Doce concursantes, un juego de supervivencia y una realidad alterada.Bienvenidos a la selva.Una aventura fascinante para fans de Los juegos del hambre o Perdidos.Doce concursantes de variado talento y caracter compiten en un duro reality de supervivencia en una selva remota. Lo que comienza como un concurso bien planeado y supervisado pronto se convierte en algo mucho mas oscuro y complicado con una protagonista excepcional e indiscutible: la concursante Zoo ha de defenderse ella sola en este entorno hostil, pero al mismo tiempo que sus reservas emocionales y fisicas empiezan a flaquear, su habilidad para analizar lo que esta viviendo sera su triunfo o su derrota.Sofisticado y provocador, este impresionante thriller nos obliga a reflexionar sobre el papel que los medios de comunicacion desempeñan en nuestra percepcion de lo que es real y demuestra con que facilidad nos dejamos influir por nuestros juicios y lo sencillo que resulta manipularnos.Reseñas: Alexandra Oliva examina con maestria todo lo que creemos conocer y las ultimas cien paginas forzaran al lector a preguntarse constantemente de que sera capaz la protagonista para volver a casa.The Washington PostEl concepto es indudablemente inteligente y bien hecho, pero lo que en realidad mantiene al lector pegado al libro es la protagonista, Zoo: practica, dura e interesante.The GuardianEn los blogs... Recomiendo este libro a los que le gusten las aventuras puras y duras, porque es lo que mas vais a encontrar aqui. El elemento thriller marca tension y confusion, asi que si tambien te gusta, es ideal para ti. Blog Palabras que no debieron ser leidasMe ha parecido simplemente, brutal, con una pluma repleta de adrenalina, con todo tipo de escenas escalofriantes y una atmosfera que refleja a la perfeccion el circo mediatico, donde, por una parte, vemos la frivolidad de las camaras y, por otra, la angustia por sobrevivir en un mundo que ya no existe. Blog Nube de mariposa

Ella buscaba aventura pero nunca pensó que llegaría tan lejos.Doce concursantes, un juego de supervivencia y una realidad alterada.Bienvenidos a la selva. Una aventura fascinante para fans de Los juegos del hambre o Perdidos. Doce concursantes de variado talento y caracter compiten en un duro reality de supervivencia en una selva remota. Lo que comienza como un concurso bien planeado y supervisado pronto se convierte en algo mucho mas oscuro y complicado con una protagonista excepcional e indiscutible: la concursante Zoo ha de defenderse ella sola en este entorno hostil, pero al mismo tiempo que sus reservas emocionales y fisicas empiezan a flaquear, su habilidad para analizar lo que esta viviendo sera su triunfo o su derrota. Sofisticado y provocador, este impresionante thriller nos obliga a reflexionar sobre el papel que los medios de comunicacion desempeñan en nuestra percepcion de lo que es real y demuestra con que facilidad nos dejamos influir por nuestros juicios y lo sencillo que resulta manipularnos. Reseñas:Alexandra Oliva examina con maestria todo lo que creemos conocer y las ultimas cien paginas forzaran al lector a preguntarse constantemente de que sera capaz la protagonista para volver a casa.The Washington Post El concepto es indudablemente inteligente y bien hecho, pero lo que en realidad mantiene al lector pegado al libro es la protagonista, Zoo: practica, dura e interesante.The Guardian En los blogs...Recomiendo este libro a los que le gusten las aventuras puras y duras, porque es lo que mas vais a encontrar aqui. El elemento thriller marca tension y confusion, asi que si tambien te gusta, es ideal para ti.Blog Palabras que no debieron ser leidas Me ha parecido simplemente, brutal, con una pluma repleta de adrenalina, con todo tipo de escenas escalofriantes y una atmosfera que refleja a la perfeccion el circo mediatico, donde, por una parte, vemos la frivolidad de las camaras y, por otra, la angustia por sobrevivir en un mundo que ya no existe.Blog Nube de mariposa