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The Fall

Burning Skies Series, Book 1

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The Fall

By: Devon C. Ford
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
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The first in the multi-author, post-apocalyptic blockbuster series

Cal's "honeymoon" didn't start off quite how he'd planned. For starters, he was heading somewhere he didn't actually want to go. And secondly, he was going alone and unmarried. He had no idea that his first visit to New York City would also land him in the middle of a domestic terror attack, forcing him to flee Manhattan in a desperate bid to survive.

This was no ordinary terror attack.

The Movement, in a misguided attempt to seize political control of the USA, unwittingly invited the destruction of their homeland, and as the bombs start to fall, the shock and loss of life reverberates around the world.

Cal, along with a small group he met in NYC, desperately flees inland away from the targeted coastal cities, but chaos follows them around every corner.

©2018 Devon C. Ford (P)2018 Tantor Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction New York Military Fiction Apocalyptic Fiction Nuclear War Fiction
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I enjoyed this book. The story was well written and flowed well. The narrator did a good job. I have trouble with the scenario that the author is presenting. The story actually departs from the history of how people behave in general when facing such situations, hence the story is a bit lacking in believablity.

Well written but....

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Detail, realism, pace, characters. This story, so far, has the makings of a classic on par with 'one second after'.

The makings of a classic

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Devon C. Ford does it again. This book has the makings of a great story line and great characters.

Great Listen

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Another fantastic survival adventure by Jackie Druga. She is one of the original apocolyptic authors and is still the best. Thank you... I enjoyed this so much.

Druga is still the best!

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The book has a great premise, but jumps from strategic level story telling in patches, but then focuses in on a few seemingly random people, it’s like somebody has taken two barely related stories and mashed them into a single book.

The characters that the story does focus on as barely likeable with seemingly insignificant background details for the most part.

Disjointed

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Kinda reads like the author doesn’t know the differences between contemporary Socialist China and the pre 1950s Imperial Japan. I was cringing with embarrassment for you. Ditto for the depiction of the Brits. Finally, the staggering absurdity of a full scale physical invasion of the continental USA by the Chinese without anyone else noticing was just ridiculous. Don’t bother writing a sequel as I won’t be buying it.

Jingoistic nonsence

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Sorry to say I didn't enjoy it.
I think the worst thing about it is the nationalistic tone. It sounds a bit like propaganda written by US security forces as a recruitment tool. I dont imagine it is, just that it's thin on story and just, well pushy about how big my gun is etc etc.

US centric view of the world - predictable

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