

H2O is the story of Ruby, a girl who’s trying to make her way in a world with killer rain. As such, it does follow a lot of those tropes, but does so in a way that doesn’t seem too tired or overdone. H2O is your classic pre/post-apocalyptic story and can be envisioned quite easily as a film in the horror or suspense genre. Virginia Bergin’s H2O takes this idea and-like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds-makes an everyday thing into a terrifying omen of doom. nature plotline and multiplies it by a million. I’m talking about Mother Nature saying “fuck this” and destroying everything in various ways, and, of course, how humans then deal with that. Are you tired of dystopian societies that categorize people by region or ability? Sick of the zombie epidemic? Still have no hope in a happy ending for society and want your fiction to reflect that? Welcome to the next wave of YA-natural apocalypses.
