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Surviving the End: Six Book Boxset

By: Grace Hamilton
Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
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When society collapses, one family will do whatever it takes to stay together

Shane McDonald is working at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant when a solar storm wipes out the grid. He's desperate to reach his family, but they're hundreds of miles away, and the world is falling apart around him. With a blind daughter to protect, finding his way back to his loved ones will be a dangerous journey, across treacherous terrain.

Jodi McDonald gathers her brother and son and heads for her prepper mother's house in rural Georgia. There, the family braces for the coming nightmare. Unprepared townspeople want to steal their supplies. A vicious gang wants revenge. All the McDonalds want is to be left alone, but peace won't come without a fight.

When drought and fire drive them from their refuge, the McDonalds must take to the road. Battered by grief and hardship, they must rely on each other to survive. But the greatest danger of all might come from within the family itself

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Dystopian Genre Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

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Engaging!

Oh my I kept wondering what would happen next! It held my attention. Book 6 made me cry.

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A Story of love, loss, and family

This book follows the lives of a family. It describes how they work to survive and try to thrive in their own way following a Coronal Mass Injection into the power grid. The six book series covers the different aspects of their work to survive.

Both the author and narrator bring the struggles to life. Understanding this series is not only heart wrenching but also makes one think about how the reader might react to this situation.

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Put me to sleep along with the sequel The Ruins

I applaud the authors with keeping each character on point and not making noticeable mistakes. This reads more like a medieval soap opera than an actual post apocalyptic story. There are mentions of the infected, but the whole book appears to be a piece by piece telling of the daily lives of the villagers with a few mentions of run ins with the infected. I feel mislead a little and couldn't finish the diatribe of filler content. It drags on and on and on and on with nothing really noteworthy to keep you interested. There is a follow up book "The Ruins" which appears to be a continuation of the 40 hours with an additional 39 hours of the same thing. 2 credits down the tubes.

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poorly conceived. Very little critical, thinking given to the effects of a power outage.

I struggle to find anything positive to say. Very average writing, plotting and world building they may have heard of the show don’t tell rule but they clearly wanted nothing to do with it!

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Never disappoints!

Surviving the End is a series about the McDonald family and their lives after a major solar flare ruins the electronic systems of most the world. The first 3 books follow the family as they come together from where they were stranded when the solar flare hit. The family gathers at their mother house, Beth is a secret prepper and more than capable to help her family survive and thrive in their new lives.
The second 3 books take place a few years after the Event when a wildfire destroys their hometown then they go through a distressing event with a cult ugh. And then to top it all off after that they must face a hurricane!
Due to all their loss of property and family members, grief really starts to take hold and becomes very pronounced in book 6. But as always our characters prevail!
I have always really enjoyed Grace Hamilton's books and was not disappointed with Surviving the End. I definitely recommend this series as well as all of her others.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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The writing was good

I suspect this was written foe a younger audience give the lack of strong language. It was refreshing. even if not realism.
I began to think the McDonald family had to be the luckiest stupid people on the earth. They generally made horrible decisions but mostly survived. And there were way too many natural disasters, one on top of another. But the characters mostly were well developed. and the writing was entertaining. Narration was very good all throughout.

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Changes

Great entertainment. The changes they went through could happen to anyone. In a moments snap it could start

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Cool Story, Frustrating Characters

I am a fan of the genre, so I leapt at the chance to get over 50 hours of listening in exchange for an honest review.

The storyline was a bit of a rollercoaster ride for me. The first three books captured and held my interest. But then I suffered through the cult part. It did not appeal to me at all. Then the final book pulled me back in. Overall, pretty solid storytelling. Though I found the cotton candy language and overall lack of weaponry a bit unrealistic in a total grid down apocalypse.

My main issue, though, was with most of the characters. It was almost like the stood around and drew straws over who was going to be the "moron" in each portion of the study. To say that they were experts at poor decision-making would be an understatement. Sometimes they did stupid stuff "by committee." I found myself wanting to reach into my earbuds and slap someone from time to time. It becomes hard to pull for the characters when they seem to be drowning in The series needed a really strong male hero figure, IMHO. The dad in the family was far too weak to lead a group of survivalists.

Overall, though, I enjoyed the story. The narrator was fantastic. It made for good listening while driving and hiking.

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Bad, complete garbage

I’m not sure why this was written away it was but it’s so absolutely unbelievably bad that I had to returnit. I read or listen to hundreds of post apocalyptic books and this one is just unbelievable. The teams used are mostly incorrect or flat out wrong,
A prepper grandma that doesn’t know how to use a shotgun? Really… husband that works at a nuclear plant and stop some meltdown, but can’t figure out why the cars aren’t working?

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Excellent book set

From book 1 to 6 you’re glued and this is an amazing story! The narrator did an amazing performance and was able to give each character their own voice without sounding so forced.

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