Series: Slowpocalypse #1
Author: James Litherland
Published: September 12/14 by Outpost Stories
Length: 292pgs
Genre: dystopian
Shelf: review
Rating: ★★★★
Back Cover Blurb:
The director’s daughter Katherine returns to work for FURC Security with a promotion because of the crisis, eager to face any challenge—but as tensions among the residents rise, she encounters greater peril than she had imagined.
David Belue gives up his classes to help install additional defenses, but his curiosity leads him to discover a threat inside the community, endangering his life—because an enemy within waits for just the right moment to betray them all.
My Review:
I found a few of the characters really easy to connect with. I loved following them through this tale. As a whole, the characters in this novel are intriguing, although not necessarily always likeable. The contrast is compelling. I appreciate how each character has a defined place within the novel, allowing readers to completely understand every aspect of it. The characters aren’t overly developed at the beginning, allowing readers to get to know them as they grow.
Overall, this was an intriguing look at Litherland’s world. It’s a great start to a series that I’ll enjoy reading.
Title: Millennium Crash
Series: Watchbearers #1
Author: James Litherland
Published: September 12/14 by Outpost Stories
Length: 324pgs
Genre: Time Travel
Shelf: review
Rating: ★★★★
Back Cover Blurb:
Series: Watchbearers #1
Author: James Litherland
Published: September 12/14 by Outpost Stories
Length: 324pgs
Genre: Time Travel
Shelf: review
Rating: ★★★★
Back Cover Blurb:
After seeing her mentor die right before her eyes, Team Leader Anya attempts to salvage something from the disaster, starting with rounding up the rest of the travelers. She doesn’t know it yet, but even that much has already become an impossible task.
Research Assistant Samantha finds her own team leader just in time to witness one of her colleagues stab him to death. The only witness to the killing, she chases the culprit through the city—but the murderer has the perfect plan for escaping justice.
Dazed and disoriented in East Harlem, Team Leader Page is being mugged when graduate student Matt Walker runs to her rescue—but playing the white knight will plunge him into improbable peril and lead him into a trap from which there is no escape.
My Review:
The characters in this novel were fantastic. Litherland developed them as if they were real people that you know. We don’t get their entire biographies, but rather the information that we’d receive if we’d actually met them. These individuals were extremely original yet very easy to identify with. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them. I loved the contrast between the characters that I do like and those that I didn’t. This made the story feel so much more real to me.
As a whole, this was a uniquely satisfying novel that is a great launch for Litherland’s series.
Enter to win with James Litherland and his 2 fantastic series.
3 lucky winners will have their choice of an ecopy (mobi or epub) of the 1st 3 novels in the Watchbearers series (Millenium Crash, Centenary Separation, and Uncertain Murder) OR the 1st 3 novels in the Slowpocalypse series (Certain Hypothetical, Threat Multiplication, Compromised Inside).
Contest is open internationally, where applicable by law.
Entries close at 11:59pm May 1/15.
Winners will be drawn May 2/15.
Winners will be notified via email to the email provided to the giveaway and will have 72h to claim their prize or another winner will be drawn.
Entered - these books look fab :D
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ReplyDeleteThis is a new series and author to me but they sounds really good. I'm adding them to my list. Thanks for the chance to win :)
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