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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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For anyone who loves a good post apocalyptic adventure - this one is for you. I enjoyed the fact that the author went into detail with scavenging for food and what supplies one would actually need. Don’t mind that other bad review I read on here. Some people have bad taste Haha.

Highly recommend

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story. The characters develop realistically and the story unfolds the same way. A couple of the characters were initially annoying because they were unrealistic goody two shoes, but their characters toughened up, deepened and became relative to the circumstances. They should have scavenged more than they did but they found enough to get by. The only odd part was the story’s male narrator using a female voice in the chapters he spoke, then the female narrator used her voice in the chapters she spoke. Surely that could have been better managed. It was disconcerting. Apart from that, I thoroughly enjoyed this story and I’m really looking forward to the next books in the series.

Fast paced, gripping story. Loved it.

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This is is pretty much the worst book I’ve listened to. My only regret is not abandoning it early. On the upside it’s so bad you can listen to the whole thing just to see how ridiculous it’s going to get.

Terrible

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It started out strong. It was a nice change having female characters in a SHTF situation that were more than just rape bait. The Voice acting was good.
...BUT
The story fell apart from about half way through. All the “bad guys” seemed unrealistic.
Mostly the “heroes and heroines” of out tale blunder in to a place, with the intention of taking resources that weren’t theirs and come across someone else with the same intention. Then for some reason the other people are assumed to be “bad” and the “good” guys and gals set to attacking them.
By the end of the story it really seems that the main protagonists are just the type of self entitled, dangerous folks you would want to avoid in a societal collapse.

I really wanted it to be good

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