Darkness
Falls
Nature's
Fury #1
by
AE Faulkner
Genre:
YA Dystopian
As
nature tires of human destruction, two sisters must face a changing
environment that stands between them and survival.
When
Quinn and Riley set out on a family vacation with their parents, the
trip ends before it begins. Mother Nature interferes with their
plans, setting off a sequence of events that thrusts the teens into a
hostile landscape.
Stranded,
with limited supplies, struggling to figure out who they can trust
along the way, they must determine how to survive nature's evolving
fury.
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“Aidan, man, we should
probably get going soon,” Jeff says, pulling me away from the threatening
spiral of memories. His interruption is a welcome distraction.
“You’re right,” Aidan says,
his eyes locked with mine. “But before we go, Quinn, you need to know, you’re
not safe here. Do you have somewhere else to go?”
“What are you talking
about?” My head volleys back and forth between the guys. Jeff runs a hand through
his short brown hair and exhales a sigh. He leans in conspiratorially and says
in a hushed voice, “Look, we’ve been checking out the unoccupied homes around
here. You know, just borrowing things to help us get by. But one of the
trailers we went to, we thought it was empty…”
Aidan finishes for him.
“Quinn, one of your neighbors is dead. We thought the trailer was vacant, so we
went inside. We grabbed some canned food and other stuff from the kitchen and
then we went to the bedroom to see if there were any blankets and pillows.”
Two sisters Quinn and Riley along with their parents set out
on vacation. Their Aunt Grace has trailer near the beach in Delaware that they
visit every year. They end up in a terrible accident close to Aunt Grace’s.
Their parents don’t survive. Quinn and Riley make their way to their aunt’s
place not knowing what else to do.
It looks like Mother Nature has had enough of the way people
is treating her home and decides that is it time for a little payback. The
earth is hit with earthquakes, tornados, storms it is one disaster after
another taking a lot lives.
During the night Quinn hears someone missing around outside
and goes to investigate. When she gets outside she sees this guy Aidan that she
met on her run earlier in the day. She asks him what he is doing missing around
in the middle of the night. Aidan tells her he is just borrowing stuff from
people who don’t need it anymore.
Quinn and Riley find out that Aidan and his friend Jeff are
from the same place they are from and plan on trying to make it home. Quinn and
Riley pack their bags and head out with them. When they awake the next day
Riley is missing. Quinn knows that Riley just didn’t take off without her. She
knows that Riley would never leave her behind. Something had to happen to her.
Someone must have come into the camp the night before and took her.
Aidan and Jeff go back with Quinn to the trailer park to
help her look for Riley they meet a boy, Chris who tells him that he overheard
a couple of guys talking about her sister and where they were going. Aidan and
Jeff go with Quinn to help her find her sister.
There is danger and a lot of obstacles standing in their way
but this one tough bunch of kids. Quinn will face down whatever is in her way
because she is not going let no one or anything stand in her way of finding her
sister. Mother Nature throws a few more things there way not to mention the
evil humans they run into.
Darkness Falls is a very intense read that kept my attention
from the first page. It started out with action in the beginning and never let
up. There were so many twists and turns that it was hard to keep up with them.
I did think at times that Quinn took some unnecessary risk. She did some great
things but sometimes she did some crazy things that was unsafe for a seventeen
year old who was all alone at the time. I would love to read more of Nature’s
Fury series. What more can these two sister’s go through? What more can Mother
Nature throw at the people? Very exciting for a read not real life.
I would definitely recommend Darkness Falls to all fans of
post-apocalyptic. Dystopia.
AE
Faulkner is a young adult dystopian author. Her debut novel, Darkness
Falls, is the first book in the Nature's Fury series, which explores
the Earth’s response to humans poisoning her streams, abusing her
animals and destroying her beauty.
She
has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Millersville University
and a master’s degree in advertising, public relations &
journalism from Temple University.
Although
she escaped in books as a child, college textbooks sucked the fun out
of reading. Years later, The Hunger Games trilogy became the spark
that rekindled her love of books. After devouring that series, she
quickly became captivated by dystopian novels.
After
several years of reading them, she decided to take a stab at writing
one that combined her love for nature with her fear of human
destruction
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1 comments:
Thanks for sharing! Glad you enjoyed the story :)
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