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Year One by Nora Roberts
3.0

Post-apocalyptic novel from Nora Roberts. A pandemic kills billions of people, but some are immune and some of the immune develop supernatural powers which were attributed to witches and elves in ancient times.

Some of these people stick together and start colonies with the hope that they could restart civilization as the pandemic passes, but some of the immune have developed darker magical skills and they are determined to kill the others. At the same time, some of the regular humans are weary of the "uncanny" and think they are demons.

In this complicated environment, Lana is pregnant and several indicators are showing that the baby she has might be "The One".

Not very original but is a flowing narrative. This book is the first one of a series and you can easily see that from the events and how they lead to the end of the book and the future books.