My Review
Sam J. Fires writes exciting post-apocalyptic novellas, and I’ve read most of them and featured them here. This is her first venture into a full-length novel. At just over 300 pages, it’s longer than I usually choose, but as I know this author writes books I enjoy so I was confident it would be good. And wow, it really was.
I loved how we got to know each of the protagonists with depth and strong characterisation. You experience the story from different angles and really get to know them.
In this type of book, I particularly enjoy the journey, and I mean that in the literal sense. Carter, his sister Morgan, her friend Rosa, and a others travel across a United States that has fallen apart following an EMP attack. Once the electricity failed, so did civilisation. As a result, their journey is filled with conflict, turmoil, and dangerous situations.
I loved it. And the best thing? It is book one in a new series.
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Book Blurb and Link
When the grid goes down, the only way out is underground.
An EMP strike plunges Las Vegas into darkness.
Cars die. Phones go silent. Emergency services vanish.
In one of the most artificial cities on earth, survival becomes the only thing that matters.
Rosa has always lived between two worlds. By day, she works at one of Vegas’s most exclusive golf clubs. By night, she disappears into the storm tunnels beneath the Strip, where a hidden community survives on scraps and silence.
When a helicopter crashes into the club and no help comes, Rosa does the one thing she never does—she stays. She pulls her co-worker Morgan from the wreckage and ends up with a traumatised pit bull, Caesar, who won’t leave her side.
But as the smoke clears, one question won’t go away: where is everyone?
Morgan just wants to get home. But home means finding her brother, Carter—and her brother has problems of his own.
Carter has one thought: his five-year-old daughter is four hundred miles away in Salt Lake City—and he is running out of time. No car. No signal. No plan. And a debt collector named Samson who isn’t about to forget what he’s owed.
Rosa knows a way through the city.
Underground.
Dangerous.
The only option left.
Welcome to the tunnels.
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