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"Endless Storm" by Riley Miller and Grace Hamilton is a riveting apocolypse novel that seamlessly weaves together action and passion. While the pacing occasionally lags, the authors' vivid descriptions of the wilderness and complex characters make for an immersive read that keeps you engaged until the very end.
This is really 3 stories in one book about one family attempting to survive.
The story starts at a cracking pace and is really enjoyable.
Unfortunately by the third book it had become a bit far fetched, there are only so many times you can be shot at and survive surely?
An easy read, but would have been better without the third part.
End of the world and after the disaster books hold a certain fascination to me. Life as we know it can change in an instant as it does for the characters in Grace Hamilton's series. I have read alot of her books and they are all fresh, no retelling the same story over and over. The fact that she can write so many unique versions of a catastrophe means I am well educated on how to get from point a to point b before, during and after an event.
I'm not quite sure how Grace Hamilton manages to keep her stories fresh and her characters realistic, but as long as she keeps writing them, I'll keep reading them.
This was a nice start to a decent new Apocalypse story from a well established writer of the genre. Not out of this world good but a decent weekend read.
I really like Grace Hamilton books, but this book was a bit too much on the action side at least for me, its like a big gym where a few people are trying to build a drawing with domino pieces, everyone in a different localization, and hoping the pieces will match, but some kitty's entered the gym while no one was looking and start touching domino pieces left and right, and the damage feels overwhelming.
This to explain that the story is told by 4 different points of view, and as soon as something scary happens to one of them it changes to another, it does help when some of different points of view come together, let me just throw that out but without spoilers about the story, things keep falling apart all around, I felt a bit overwhelmed because I like for family to search for the other members during a crisis, but I like it with personal grow, with time to “smell” the Flowers (oh by the way, the lady zoe flowers, are very cute), I felt like this was a speed movie about climate change…
I really like apocalyptical books, but I need mine to be a bit slower, I get lost in the action very quickly, maybe I wasn’t the right reader for this one, I did like the speech on the book, but I also didn’t like how each chapter was a cliffhanger, for a situation that screamed hope or even despair…
Thank you NetGalley and Relay Publishing for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.
A mega storm hits and the main part of the plot is about a family finding each other from the various different places they end up washed up at.
Kelly's husband Zach has recently died leaving her with their teenaged son Jackson, who has begun to act up and cut school with his best friend Ray. Kelly's brother Eddie, a former rock star lives with her and his pre-teen daughter Zoey recently moved in when her mother died.
Kelly and Eddie are at home when the storm, 'the big one' hits. They decide to split up, find their kids, Jackson & Zoey. The plan is to then meet back up and travel to their parents farm/dog rescue in Tennessee to make a life there.
Kelly & Eddie at first think Jackson & Zoey are at their schools......but teenager Jackson has been cutting school and along with best friend Ray has gone to a local theme park, ironically called Pirate Splash. It's not long after the storm hits that everywhere is flooding, including the theme park! Ray's friend Faye sneaks them into the theme park and they explore along with her and her boyfriend Brian. When a ride stops, they have to abandon it and use staff areas to try to get out. Then they have to survive the flooding! Along the way they come across a little girl called Mira whom, Ray & Jackson take under their protective wing.
It turns out Zoey isn't at school either but after been put under pressure in class she has had an asthma attack and according to safety guidelines she has to attend hospital.....only due to the storm her ambulance is in an accident, then the ambulance that rescues her from that is re-directed multiple times and ends up taking refuge at an abandoned hotel.
This book starts off kind of slow paced, in fact at one point I wavered about continuing to read it, but then the pace picked up and the action increased.
I particularly liked the characters relationships with each other. The brother Eddie, sister Kelly being single parents whilst struggling with their own emotional and financial personal problems. I loved both Kelly & Eddie willing to lay down their life for their child. They both really go through a lot, are beaten and betrayed during their quests to reach their children. They both then catch a lucky break, Kelly coming across Stanley who has his own sad, emotional tale of loss and loneliness but agrees to help Kelly. Then Eddie in a ditch, being lucky that Jeb is passing and rescues him, then offers to help him get to his daughter Zoey.
I'm really looking forward to the next book and seeing how the group copes with the trials they will have to overcome to get to Tennessee to Kelly & Eddie's parents Farm. We don't even know what state the older couple will be in, nor their farm if/when Kelly & the group manage to get there. Which characters will leave the group, who will they meet along the way to add to their group. Then theres the weather conditions and the fact people are going crazy looting, not to mention the government and their 'safe shelters' that have something really sinister going on in as well as disease spreading amongst the occupants. Why are these 'safe shelters' wanting to prevent people leaving them.
The way this book ended leaves so many different options and directions a second book could go.
A horrendous storm strikes, and a family seeks to flee, but they can't find everyone. A niece is missing, and so is a son. Evil is also frolicking in the weather. Storms like this were supposed to manage global warming, but instead, they triggered repeated disasters.
The angst of lost teens, panicky parents, and people in peril, build a wild tale. Some kids have headed for a closed amusement park to enjoy an adventurous day on their own, but that goes wrong. It always does. Another young woman is recovering from an asthma attack and trying to save her teacher from a heart attack. Being stranded in floodwaters when the ambulance wrecks, she can't get any real help from refugees seeking their own safety.
Endless Storm by Riley Miller, Grace Hamilton.
A storm like no other plunges the world into chaos…
When an egotistical billionaire’s plan to solve climate change goes horribly wrong, it unleashes a catastrophe with devastating consequences.
Widowed boat tour operator, Kelly Walker, is determined to escape from Florida with her family before the flood waters rise and life as she knows it disappears.
But when disaster strikes her son, Jackson, is missing. She’ll do anything to find him. But as brutal winds and power failures accompany the floodwaters, she fears she may already be too late.
Really enjoyable read. Love this author. Hope there is more to come. 5*.