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Darkness: After the EMP

By: Harley Tate
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kevin Pierce, Gabra Zackman
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If the power grid fails, how far will you go to survive?

Madison spends her days tending plants as an agriculture student at the University of California, Davis. She plans to graduate and put those skills to work only a few hours from home in the Central Valley. The sun has always been her friend, until now.

When catastrophe strikes, how prepared will you be?

Tracy starts her morning like any other, kissing her husband Walter goodbye before heading off to work at the local public library. She never expects it to end fleeing for her life in a Suburban full of food and water. Tackling life's daily struggles is one thing, preparing to survive when it all crashes down is another.

The end of the world brings out the best and worst in all of us.

With no communication and no word from the government, the Sloanes find themselves grappling with the end of the modern world all on their own. Will Madison and her friends have what it takes to make it back to Sacramento and her family? Can Tracy fend off looters and thieves and help her friends and neighbors survive?

The EMP is only the beginning.

After the EMP: Darkness follows the Sloane family as they attempt to survive after a geomagnetic storm destroys the nation's power grid.

©2017 Harley Tate (P)2017 Podium Publishing Action & Adventure Fantasy Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Survival

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I liked it but you need to give it some time it’s not the love from the first sight. Story is good a bit stretched here and there but holding up. I was thinking - what I would do in this situation… You?

I liked it but it wasn’t easy

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Most of the characters are beyond annoying! especially Wanda and Drew who seem like human versions of hei hei from Moana. Madison is excruciatingly naïve, trusting and just perfect, who repeatedly puts her friends in danger trying to save strangers! And the father is a sexist pig who thinks he's Rambo and seems to be an expert at everything.
The book was badly researched and there were long drawn out boring parts with weak dialogue, people just telling each other how great they are, or tedious inner monologues stating how they'd do anything to protect their loved ones.
Most of the book is very repetitive with the too-perfect characters trying to justify everything that they do to survive.

The most infuriating characters

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I really struggled with this book, the story line was good but the script just seemed so wooden. Numerous times i almost quit listening, but it was something to listen to whilst doing DIY. The way the characters interacted verbally just seemed a little too scripted and the conversations and words said are not typical of generic conversation that people have. I think they tried to hard with the script losing some of the natural feel. I'm not gripped enough to get book2.

Wooden Script

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