Thursday, October 1, 2015

Blog Tour + Review: Sugar Scars By Travis Norwood @TravisLNorwood @GHBTours #Giveaway







Sugar Scars
By- Travis Norwood
Genre- Post Apocalyptic/Sci Fi

Living after the apocalypse really isn’t that hard for most of the survivors. The virus killed all but 1 in 10,000. The few remaining people are left in a world of virtually unlimited resources. Grocery stores overflowing with food and drink. Thousands of empty houses to pick from.

But one survivor, a nineteen-year-old girl, requires more than simple food, water and shelter. As a type 1 diabetic her body desperately needs insulin to stay alive. With civilization gone, no one manufactures it anymore. She hoards all the insulin she can find, but every day marches toward the end of her stash of vials. She has a choice. Accept her fate and death, or tackle the almost insurmountable task of extracting and refining the insulin herself.

Brilliant scientists struggled to make the first insulin. What hope does a high school dropout have?


  

My Review-

I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

A virus has wiped out the world and only a ratio of 1 in 10,000 has survived. One of those survivors doesn’t have much of a problem of being alone. She has been alone or a loner most of her life so being by herself now is really not a problem for her. She is not worried about surviving and living on her own. I mean she is not going to starve the stores have lots of food to last her for a very long time. There are lots and lots of houses for her to pick from with so many people gone. She can live in any one she would like. She could even move to another state if she chose too. But this little nineteen year old girl has chosen to stay in her own little house that she got all by herself without any help from anyone.

Sugar has type 1 diabetes and has to have insulin to live. She takes all or most all of the insulin that she can find in the pharmacy’s that she can find close by. She gets herself a big refrigerator to keep all of her insulin in. But one day she happens to notice that the vials have expiration dates on them and she only has enough insulin to last her for maybe two years if she is lucky. When she discovers this she almost gives up but something deep inside of her just won’t let her give in. She is a fighter and is very determined to live.

All she needs to survive is more insulin, easy right? Wrong. All the people who use to make it had died with the virus or maybe by other means. Who knows what has happened to some of the people after they discover that they have lost everyone that they ever cared about. Sugars starts thinking that all she needs to do is make more insulin.  But it is not as easy as she thought it might be. She knew that it would be hard but she didn’t know how hard. She goes to libraries and universities to find the books and all the equipment she needs to make insulin.

While she is trying to figure out how to make the insulin she needs to live she meets other people along the way and decides that she doesn’t like being as along as she thought. Sugar has this great big heart with a lot of passion for helping other people and putting her own life in danger to save other people. Sugar has traveled a long hard road and her journey is not over yet. On this journey she meets a lot of people some whom she becomes very good friends with that will last a lifetime. But she always meets some people that can’t take the heat and walks out of her life and breaks her heart. Instead of it making her weaker it makes her stronger and wants to live even more.

When I read the summary I knew I just had to read Sugar Scars as I can relate to it because I have a nephew with type 1 diabetes and he has to live his life like Sugar. His pancreas doesn’t work at all either. I have learned a lot by reading Sugar Scars that I did not know about type 1 diabetes. Hopefully I will never have a need to know some of the info in Sugar Scars but if we the world did happen to end and I survived along with my nephew I could hopefully help him out and together we could make insulin for him with Sugar’s help of course.


I really loved reading Sugar Scars and meeting all of the characters. That Sugar is one tough little cookie with a heart of gold. I would love to recommend Sugar Scars to anyone who loves a good story especially an apocalyptic story. Sugar Scars will grab a hold of your heart with the very first word and will keep tugging on it right up until the last word and even then it will not let go. So grab your copy today so that you can get started reading because this is one story you don’t want to miss out on. I can’t wait until the next book makes its debut.  


About the Author-
Travis Norwood lives in Montgomery, Alabama with his wife and five children. Like Sugar, he would be perfectly happy living in a world emptied of almost all people. But not you, of course. He sincerely hopes you survive the apocalypse.

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1 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for featuring Sugar Scars!
One of the best written reviews I've read.
You captured the heart of the book without giving away spoilers.