This is NOT
Nora Roberts usual romance. There is
romance in the book but it is not the main story, it is a thing that happens in
the middle of people fighting for their lives.
This was so exciting to read…heart pumping….people dying left and right
but some people living and they know not why.
They band together to fight those that are evil people who lived who
like to take and destroy lives and living.
There are fairies and shape shifters and people who can just look at a
candle and light it….and then bigger things.
I never thought I would like to read a book that had these types of
people in them….but I was hooked. I’m
now reading book 2….no spoilers from me but it seems to be just as great. You won’t want to put this one down and it
will stay with you after the last pages.
Buy this book! I did and it was
so unexpectedly great!
I thought I
would leave a review as this book was so great it needed to get the word out. Buy it you won’t be disappointed!
Review as found
online:
A stunning new novel
from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—an epic of hope and horror, chaos
and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight
the battle of their lives…
It began on New
Year’s Eve.
The sickness came on
suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks,
everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered;
law and government collapsed—and more than half of the world’s population was
decimated.
Where there had been
order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded,
magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by
Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max.
Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in
fetid tunnels beneath the river—or in the ones you know and love the most.
As word spreads that
neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the
ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max
make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other
travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius
trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who
has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her
young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems
out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful
doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a
young mother and three infants in their care alive.
In a world of
survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a
savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a
purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who
remain.
The end has come.
The beginning comes next.
