Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32603079-wanderers" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Wanderers" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1542215231l/32603079._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32603079-wanderers">Wanderers</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17152.Chuck_Wendig">Chuck Wendig</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2912669959">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
It all starts one morning when Shana discovers her younger sister, Nessie, is missing. She finds her wandering in a trance like state, unresponsive to anything she does. Nessie is soon joined by more and more "sleepwalkers". If anyone tries to stop them, they literally explode. Shana and the family members of the other walkers decide to follow them to keep them safe and become known as "shepherds". Meanwhile, a new disease starts sweeping the country. Nicknamed "white face" for the advanced stage where the victims face is coated with the white fungus, there appears to be no cure. The only ones safe from this disease are the sleepwalkers. As fear and tensions rise, the walkers and shepherds are blamed for causing the disease and, as government and civilization start to deteriorate, new powers rise up determined to destroy the walkers. <br />This is a long book with most of the action in the last third of the story. I feel like it could have been a little shorter, but the building of the background story of Benji and the CDC and the creation of the AI program Black Swan was important. I think it's terrifying that this computer took over in making decisions that so dramatically impacted the whole human race.
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