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The tour runs from January 26 to February 26.
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Title: Desolation
Author: ML Banner
Genre: Science
Fiction
A #1 Hot New Release in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
A world devastated: a sky filled with magical auroras at night and deadly
radiation during the day; technology all but gone; hundreds of millions dead by
fire, starvation, disease and violence. The survivors will have to face their
own desolation.
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Three groups struggle to endure and hold onto what little they have, while
others will do anything to take it all. On a beach in Mexico, a small town in
Wyoming, and a rural ranch in Illinois, epic battles between good and evil will
be fought. Winners will have to face forces of nature never seen before.
But there is a dim light on the horizon. A 150 year old secret may lead the
lucky few to a place that holds the promise of a new future, unless the sun
sets on humanity first.
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The stunning follow up to the #1 Amazon Best Seller STONE AGE.
Movie Rating: PG-17 for descriptions of violence and language.
Author Bio
Hello lovers of apocalyptic fiction!
I devour the same books I enjoy writing: science fiction, but especially
anything apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic or dystopian. I love stories about
regular people being put into extra ordinary circumstances, and having to rely
on their own cunning and that of others to survive.
Stone Age & DESOLATION are that kind of story. They're fast moving, have
some regular and amazing characters who must make life changing decisions, all
while the world is experiencing an apocalypse unlike anything imagined.
When not writing fiction, my wife and I split time between Tucson, Arizona and
the sunny beaches of Mexico. I also write for a few blogs, and I still write
articles to assist small business owners for one of the companies I founded,
SmallBiZ.com.
Links
Excerpt:
From
Chapter 1:
Deadly
Waters
Rocky Point, Mexico
A loud
screeching cut through the raw morning air, rousing Bill and Lisa King from a
fitful sleep of restless nightmares.
The uproar was
one more in the endless list of sounds they had never heard before, which made
up their life after the apocalypse. It wasn’t the frightening
death-throe-screams that followed distant gunshots across the town’s estuaries,
or the constant electrical buzz that filled the atmosphere all around them.
This sound was a monstrous and powerful outcry immediately outside their beach
home.
Bill sprang out
of bed, a .45 in his hand, ready to bring death to some poor S.O.B. who was
probably just hungry and looking for food.
“What is that?”
he bellowed.
“Don’t know, but
it’s close,” Lisa shouted barely loud enough to be heard, flying to the window,
scarcely touching the carpet.
Impossibly, the
roar grew louder. Its deep, penetrating tones were undaunted by their walls and
attempts to muffle the assault to their eardrums. It sounded like some angry
mechanical leviathan, tearing at the sand and coral with its metal claws.
Standing at the
window, Bill pried open the blinds, his jaw dropping farther with each inch
revealed. The source of that racket was worse than the prehistoric monster he
imagined.
“It’s a cruise
ship?” He blinked, transfixed in disbelief. His wife’s eyes mirrored his
distrust.
The dark
behemoth was a passenger ship but no less terrifying than a T-rex might have
been, made malicious by the green auroras illuminating its hull, as though it
had been belched out of the depths to destroy them. It crept up onto their
beach, slowly pushed by some invisible force, intent on burrowing a bloody
trail to town.
The screeching
persisted for what seemed an endless amount of time, until the beast ran out of
inertia. The high incoming tide deposited it less than one hundred meters from
their property.
When the
dreadful noise ceased, the relative quiet made the constant thrumming sound of
the wind-driven sand drubbing the home’s windows and outside walls sound
louder. The hulk lay unmoving, as if asleep, and they stood motionless for fear
of waking it.
The light from
tonight’s auroras was bright and pulsating, outlining the massive vessel’s
form. Out of the water, it looked much taller, not listing as expected but
sitting upright almost as if it were properly parked in the port five miles up
the coast. Each spectral blast of green revealed more of the ship’s evil
presence. A fire on the port side, evidenced by blackened scarring, made it
appear that the devil’s own giant hand had reached out from the ship’s bowels,
leaving molten prints burned into its hide from the first row of balconies up
to the silent chimney stacks. When the pulsating light ebbed, shadowing the
ship in a momentary darkness, it almost looked like a normal cruise liner
awaiting tourists that would never come. For a ship normally carrying a couple
thousand crew and passengers in its belly, there were no signs of life.
My Review:
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Getting into this book was slightly difficult for me, if I'm to be completely honest. But, after a few chapters I began to really love this world and the characters.
The world building was unique and all-encompassing. I was thrust into a world that I didn't quite understand but the way this book is written made me really want to understand and to garner all its secrets. There was something about this book that really made me want to push myself through sleepless nights just to know what happened next.
The characters weren't all that amazing, they were quite ordinary, but I liked that. If the story was written right then the characters will fit right in, and the story was written more than all right.
Overall I highly recommend this book to anybody eager to get into an amazing, hard to get out of setting.
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