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Dark Nation, Book 1
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Andrew Tell
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Grace Hamilton
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They’re trapped inside a prison when the power goes out....
Molly is determined to get the troubled teens she teaches back on the right path and is convinced a trip to a local prison will show them the consequences of bad behavior. But when an EMP blast knocks out all power across the country, Molly and her five students, along with their former-Marine bus driver, Colton, are locked in with the prisoners with no safe exit.
The guards are little help against clever convicts, and when a riot throws everything into chaos, Molly and Colton must find a way to get to freedom with their charges, even if it means trusting a prisoner who is using them for his own gains.
Prisoners aren’t the only danger in the suddenly powerless world. Escaping the prison and bugging out to Molly's cabin may be more dangerous than staying inside as it becomes clear that the power isn’t coming back...
...and society is about to crumble.
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Milo Mitchell's life used to be charmed, but that was before her family dissolved, she went a little crazy, and her best friends started acting more like strangers. Spending Saturday morning in a treehouse with a stun gun for company and a herd of deer for friends is the only exciting thing in her life...until she shoots a fawn and finds her dart stuck in a guy. Her gorgeous victim is dressed in a Brioni tux and armed with a hanky. He has no idea who or where he is. Afraid her dart caused his amnesia, Milo takes him in.
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The worst book I have ever listened to!
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The Gardener
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Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children’s book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of an experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs—genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don’t need food or water to survive.
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- By Word Nerd on 03-04-11
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Dark Room Etiquette
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Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything. Popularity, good looks, perfect grades—there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy. Until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he's been living is based on a lie. Trapped in a windowless room, without knowing why he's been taken or how long the man plans to keep him shut away, Sayers faces a terrifying new reality. To survive, he must forget the world he once knew, and play the part his abductor has created for him.
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Absolutely brilliant
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The First Days
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The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde. Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a powerful zombie-killing partnership, mowing down zombies as they rescue Jenni's stepson, Jason, from an infected campground.
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Not for my demographic
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Prepared
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Alex Duncan is a mother, a sister - and the daughter of a doomsday prepper. She always thought her father was insane, raving about an apocalypse she never believed in, but when a plague hits the United States and the dead no longer stay dead, Alex discovers heeding her deceased father’s advice is what will keep her family alive. Before he died, Alex’s father created a compound in Montana just in case situations like this arose. The dead walk, hungry for human flesh. With little time to spare, Alex must make split-second decisions to prevent her family from being devoured.
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Preppers and Zombies
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Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett have managed the impossible: a few months of peace and quiet. After nearly a year of personal and professional turmoil, they're living together conflict free, work is going smoothly, and they're both happy, healthy, and home every night before dark. But anyone who knows them knows that can't possibly last.
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Going Home Isn't Easy- Humorous & Passionate Susp.
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We Told Six Lies
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Remember how many lies we told, Molly? It’s enough to make my head spin. You were wild when I met you, and I was mad for you. But then something happened. And now you’re gone. But don’t worry. I’ll find you. I just need to sift through the story of us to get to where you might be. I’ve got places to look and a list of names. The police have a list of names, too. See now? There’s another lie. There is only one person they’re really looking at, Molly. And that’s yours truly.
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great book from audible
- By Paula on 10-16-20
By: Victoria Scott
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Unraveling
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Two days before the start of her junior year, 17-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed - as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she's opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn't possible, she knows - with every fiber of her being - that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.
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Roswell + Fringe = Unraveling
- By Gena on 05-05-12
By: Elizabeth Norris
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Recon
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Eli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don't ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine. She's the best developer in her year, and she's confident she'll find a place among the wealthy, respected Systems workers. But when an upset in the bidding changes the course of Harper's future, she'll be forced to rely on an unlikely ally.
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Really fun listen
- By Cate on 05-23-16
By: Tarah Benner
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The Taking
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When 16-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas 'n' Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed…yet she hasn't aged a day. Everything else about Kyra's old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men.
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Disappearance, return, young love, pursuit & more
- By Howard on 05-17-14
By: Kimberly Derting
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Reboot
- By: Amy Tintera
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Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes, she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now 17 years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).
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Weak characterization unmakes the story.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-31-13
By: Amy Tintera
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- Deedra
- 07-16-24
Escaping Anarchy
I loved this book! Grace Hamilton is a wonderfull dystopian storyteller.In this book kids are at a prison for 'Scared Straight' when an emp hits. The relationships that form are great! Andrew Tell was a terrific narrator. I was given this book free for an honest review.
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- Jamie Bee
- 06-28-24
World Coming Apart
World Coming Apart
This book's title seems peculiar. As this is the first book of the Dark Nation series, everybody involved is being dropped right into anarchy! Nobody's escaping it quite yet! If you've read any post-EMP books by this author, you will be familiar with her formula. I don't say “formula” as if it's a bad thing, because this author is skilled. She takes a decent amount of time at the start of the book to set up all the main characters and their scenarios. As always in these books, we don’t just follow one group of people as they're trying to navigate their post-EMP world. Instead, the book follows several in different locations, with some connections between them. Compared to other books by this author, much time is spent at the beginning of the book showing the world as it was before the EMP happens. I don't recall prior series spending quite so much time setting up the pre-EMP world. But I liked how we see the characters’ lives before disaster struck.
As a former addiction nurse, I have a quibble. One character is a woman who suffered from opioid addiction after she was injured. In the book, she struggles with whether to take some of her leftover pills, and at one point, she decides to take some. The character mentions the “sweet release” it gives her. It doesn't quite work that way. People who have battled with opioid addiction don't continue to take it for the initial “sweet release” it gave them when they first started using. Rather, they take it to chase away the bad feelings they have when they're addicted and don't use. Opioid addiction is complex, having both physical and psychological components. It's hard to say, given how much time had lapsed before her relapse, if she would still be feeling poorly physically because of her addiction, but at that point, she wouldn't get any physical “sweet release.” And also, there is the very real danger of overdose if people do relapse, as any length of time away from their substance will decrease their tolerance, making it so that if they use at their prior level, they will be more likely to have an overdose. That actually could be quite a dramatic moment in a book like this. So if the author ever chooses to go down the opioid addiction road with a character again, she could consider going that route.
This book is full of action once the EMP strikes. A group of children is in particular peril. They were going on a field trip to the local prison for the Scared Straight program. Essentially, they are locked in with the prisoners once things go down! They've got a fantastic teacher and a former military bus driver who protect them. I felt a little frustrated with the teacher at some points, especially when she endangered four children to rescue one. I understood her rationale, of course, but seeing what happened next to the children was hard to swallow. One mildly annoying thing I've noticed in all these post-EMP books by this author is that she has things go bad rather quickly. I understand that from a storytelling standpoint, but I'd hate to think that if an event like this really happened, we would all descend into such lawlessness, anarchy, and cruelty to others so quickly. I've already got the next book queued up and ready to listen to. I'm curious to see what happens next to all the groups of people.
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- Shantelle Hazelton
- 07-14-22
Loved it
Great first book. Really sets up for the next book. Characters and storyline were wonderful.
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- Barbara Gilbert
- 09-29-22
great story
Love the premise of the story and the struggle the characters go through as the power goes out. the narrator does an excellent job bringing the characters to life. I recommend this book.
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Great Series Starter
This audiobook kept me entertained from beginning to end. The author did a great job with the character work and story line. The narrator did a fantastic job of breathing life into the story and kept me listening from beginning to end.
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- 11-11-22
Crazy Full on Start to a Series
I wasn’t sure what to expect but was pleasantly surprised with how the author handled the EMP, especially having set it in a prison.
I loved each and every one of the characters.
I was all for guard Fox until what he did at the end.
Thankfully Zack was a good guy in the end. Molly, a strong woman, a fantastic teacher, I did love how well written she was and that there’s more to come in the rest of the series.
Poor Laura but what happened to the dog?? That is why I’m diving straight into listening to book 2.
Andrew Tell could narrate anything and I'd enjoy listening to him.
Had to laugh, some of the characters frustrated me but I put that down to how the author is able to write them, and if done well enough then even those that annoy you will be memorable.
While I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review, I ended up purchasing my own audio and ebook copies of this book.
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- R K
- 09-02-22
A new take-Misbehaving Teens Meet an Apocalypse
This is a well written book in a setting that very well could happen. In our new world of don't expect the best outcome unless you help make that outcome a reality, Molly and her students all step up to make their new reality a better reality using their collective knowledge, strength, and ingenuity. This is a fast paced book and I enjoyed it. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
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