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The Bitter Earth

Graham's Resolution, Book 5

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The Bitter Earth

By: A. R. Shaw
Narrated by: Jim Cunningham
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About this listen

By best-selling author A. R. Shaw! More than 51,000 books sold!

Graham's Resolution: What the world dreads most has happened....

The Bitter Earth is a return to The China Pandemic's beginnings. The first half is the tale of what actually happened in those early days - the panic that ensued. Meet Sheriff's partner, Officer Lincoln Asher, and experience those last days.

The second half is set eight years into the future after The Malefic Nation. With so few left behind, how will they maintain a society, or will they become a nation of lonely scavengers?

Order of Graham's Resolution:

  • The China Pandemic, Book One
  • The Cascade Preppers, Book Two
  • The Last Infidels, Book Three
  • The Malefic Nation, Book Four
  • The Bitter Earth, Book Five

If you love dystopian postapocalyptic books by such authors as A. American, Steven Konkoly, or Tom Abrahams, you'll like Graham's Resolution. Fans of One Second After, Lucifer's Hammer, Into the Forest, and The Stand did too.

©2018 Annette Rachelle Shaw (P)2018 Annette Rachelle Shaw Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction China

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I was confused at first but now I need book 6! I don't know what it is called yet.

A bit short!

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I like the way that it was spilt into two and it did provide a lot more background and answered a lot of questions that I had. I kept trying to guess how the characters fitted in.

I am currently just devouring this series and this book is a return to the form of the previous books so book 4 felt a blip.

Filed in a lot of the blanks but still has hooks

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I was really enjoying this series and still am, but I got to the end of this book and it was like it finishes half way through! Is it a book split in half t make more money? Disappointing.

Half a book?

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