Thursday 3 July 2014

PROMO & REVIEW - AFTER THE SILENCE BREE PT1 BY JACQUELINE PAIGE

Title:  After the Silence – Bree Part 1
Author:  Jacqueline Paige
Genre: Paranormal Urban Fantasy / Survivalist

Tagline:  One woman’s journey through the chaotic new world.
 Those left standing make the paths for the future generations.

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When the Mother Nature decides she’s had enough and begins to fight back, survival takes on a whole new meaning.  If the earth is the enemy – there are no rules and all you can do is try to survive the odds.

Those the planet allowed to live still have to survive the trials of the virus. If you manage to come out of it alive you are left with some form of mutation that could give you an ability that could be harmless or lethal.

Bree Taylor is the last survivor of her family.  With no other choice she sets off on her own to escape the clutches of the new government’s army—that does not place safety and security in their code of behavior only the highest bidder get their protection and loyalty.

Living in a world of unstable climate changes becomes a journey she won’t soon forget.  She has to be prepared for anything at all times out in the new country and has to be wary of every person she meets. All while staying out of the path of the new army.

This is a 4 part serial story releasing from June - September.

Release Date for part 1 is June 18, part 2 releases July 18th

The entire volume will be released in January 2015 as one book.


EXCERPT

The snapping and crunching of branches told me something was moving through the trees. Turning the flash light off, I hunched down to be as small and invisible as possible.  I listened in the darkness for anything that would let me know where the noise had come from and what had made it.  Voices were carried to me in the dark, a man and a woman.  I moved slowly back towards my things and sat with my back against the tree straining to see in the dark.    
Time stopped as I waited to see if the voices kept moving or came closer.  I wasn’t sure what I’d do if they did come closer.  I touched the handle of the knife inside my coat, hoping this wasn’t when I find out if I could use it.  Leaves rustled from behind me.  I held my breath and pushed back against the tree, waiting.  When I heard a low growl coming from around the tree I think even my heart even paused. 
I had strangers coming closer on one side of me and an animal voicing a warning behind me.  Tremor shook his head and pranced a few times and the growling got louder.  I sat there trying to gauge what was the most important and decided there was no way I was going to let something happen to my horse.  Sliding up the tree as quietly as I could, while focusing on the voices, I tried to recall every skill instilled in me, drawing more blanks than anything useful. 
Pulling the knife from the pocket, I prayed it was sharp enough to cut the rope I’d tied Tremor to.  I guessed I had about fifteen seconds to cut it and get to the horse before whatever was growling took a bite off one of my legs or other body parts.  Chewing my lip, I hoped I could still get on his back without the saddle.  The plan was to ride like hell and come back later for my stuff—if we could find it again. 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacqueline Paige lives in Ontario in a small town that’s part of the popular Georgian Triangle area.  No one has ever heard of Stayner, so she usually tells people she lives “near Collingwood” and no, she doesn’t ski at Blue Mountain or at all, in fact she’s not even fond of snow. 

She began her writing career in 2006 and since her first published works in 2009 she hasn’t stopped.  Jacqueline describes her writing as “all things paranormal”, which she has proven is her niche with stories of witches, ghosts, physics and shifters now on the shelves.

When Jacqueline isn’t working at her ‘reality job’ or lost in her writing she spends time with her five children, most of whom are finally able to look after her instead of the other way around.  Together they do random road trips, that usually end up with them lost,  shopping trips where they push every button in the toy aisle, hiking when there’s enough time to escape and bizarre things like creating new daring recipes in the kitchen. She’s a grandmother to four (so far) and looks forward to corrupting many more in the years to come.


Jacqueline loves to hear from her readers, you can find her at www.jacqpaige.webs.com , www.jacqpaige.blogspot.ca  or http://magicseasonsbooks.blogspot.ca


BOOK REVIEW

Title: After The Silence, Bree - Part 1
Author: Jacqueline Paige

BLURB from Goodreads
One woman’s journey through the chaotic new world.

Those left standing make the paths for the future generations.

When the Mother Nature decides she’s had enough and begins to fight back, survival takes on a whole new meaning. If the earth is the enemy – there are no rules and all you can do is try to survive the odds.

Those the planet allowed to live still have to survive the trials of the virus. If you manage to come out of it alive you are left with some form of mutation that could give you an ability that could be harmless or lethal.

Bree Taylor is the last survivor of her family. With no other choice she sets off on her own to escape the clutches of the new government’s army—that does not place safety and security in their code of behavior only the highest bidder get their protection and loyalty.

Living in a world of unstable climate changes becomes a journey she won’t soon forget. She has to be prepared for anything at all times out in the new country and has to be wary of every person she meets. All while staying out of the path of the new army.

INITIAL THOUGHTS
I discovered this book via Roxanne Rhoades at Bewitching Blog Tours, I had signed up for the Blog Tour, but with my health issues lately daren't commit to read and reviewing by that date.  As regular visitors to my blog will know I love a good dystopian/post apocalyptic book, so I was looking forward to reading this one.

MY REVIEW
I received a free e-copy with the promise I would read and review. The cover is okay it depicts a female character from the book called Bree, personally I visualize Bree as looking younger than the female on the cover, but I guess different readers will visualize characters differently. The back ground of the cover fits well a stark looking landscape.
The book is set after a virus and climate change has ravaged the earth and its people. The main character is Bree, she has just lost the last person of her family her brother Shawn. He has died of an injury that prior to the virus and climate change would have been easily sorted out with some fairly basic antibiotics. Those that have had the virus and survived it, like Bree have somehow mutated and have been "gifted" with "talents" such as being stronger, being a healer, being a night walker only etc. As i said Shawn has died but Bree is not alone as her brother had banded together with some of his friends. These young men have kind of all adopted Bree as their younger sister, rallying round her to protect her and keep her safe.
Bree decides to leave the city to try and go some place more rural that she can start over. In the City most shop have been looted and gangs rule, so it is a dangerous place to be. 
One of Bree's "adopted" brother Darren, gives her his prized possession his horse Tremor, which is a real big deal and Bree does appreciate it even more as her time travelling progresses. Two of her brothers see her off on her way giving her Tremor, a long duster style leather coat to keep her warm and some throwing knives and larger knives for weapons hunting and defense too. 
Bree is soon joined by another animal, a "scraggy dog" is how she describes it but later in the book another character describes the "dog" as a"wolf". Bree is rightly so, timid around the dog for a while, but the dog which she names "Kismet" as fate brought them together, she does occasionally shorten the name to Kizzy too.
Bree learns what her mutation/talent is. . . . . and the book is then about Bree's travels, her using the survival techniques her brother's taught. The book is also about the other survivors that Bree meets along the way.
I really enjoyed this book and felt like it has really set the scene for more to come in PT 2 etc.
The book has dangers from the surroundings, dangers from other virus survivors as well as the climate change. 
So did I enjoy the book? Yes I did, I was wanting even more as it ended though. The book ends on one heck of a cliff hanger! Would I recommend the book? Yes, but I would stress that it is Pt 1 and expect a cliffhanger. Would I read more books in this series? Definitely please as soon as available please! Would I read other titles by this author? I think I'll certainly be taking a look at Jacqueline's other titles.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for having ATS here today.
    I'm happy you enjoyed it.
    :)

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