Titles: Redemption (Moonchild, #3)
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Futuristic Steampunk
Publisher: Twisted Press
Editor: Lori Whitwam
Publication Date: May 16th, 2019
Blurb:
From an award-winning author and master of world building comes the thrilling third book in the Moonchild series, featuring a future fueled by greed and corruption, where airships rule the skies and coal mines have been turned into prisons…
Nearly a year after Asher Kimura swooped into Athens and saved Scarlett and her friends, the group has settled into a routine that almost feels like a real life. But when an altercation on the street turns deadly, they’re forced to head out west to lay low until things have settled down.
After a lifetime in the polluted world the Luddites have created, Scarlett is looking forward to seeing the sun in all its splendor for the very first time. Too bad the heat, dust, and utter lawlessness of the west leave a lot to be desired. But she’s determined to enjoy both her time with Asher and the break from the constant threat of living in Columbus.
It doesn’t take long for the group to realize that corruption knows no borders. Drugs, slavery, and forced prostitution are only the tip of the iceberg when Asher comes face to face with the demons from his past, leaving Scarlett to wonder if he’ll make it out in one piece.
With new characters and a fresh setting, the past meets the future in the exciting third book in the Moonchild series. Readers rave about the “captivating setting, riveting plot, and heart-pounding action” in the Moonchild series, calling it a “much needed breath of fresh air in the world of YA fantasy.”
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Moonchild | Liberation | Redemption
My Review of Redemption (Moonchild #3)
After a night out on the town turns deadly the crew head out
west to lay low for a while hiding from the enforcers. Out west there are no
enforcers so there for no need to be looking over her shoulder all the time.
But there may be a few things that could be just as dangerous like drugs.
slavery and being forced into prostitution.
There is a deadly drug running amuck on the streets making
slaves of anyone who tries it. Once you try it you are hooked for life you will
do anything it takes to get more because without it you will die. The drug
affects people in different ways some it will put them into coma like state while
awake and others it makes their temperatures go up and they want to fight
anyone in their eye sight.
Trouble seems to follow Scarlett where ever she goes and
their little trip out west is no different. They just thought they were leaving
all their troubles behind and were going to be on like a little mini vacation
but they were wrong as men from their past show up with intentions of taking
over the whole town and enlarging their business.
Lives are at stake; Scarlett and Asher have no intentions of
letting their past catch up with them and start all over with someone else
without trying to stop it in its tracks.
Scarlett and Asher are stilling hiding stuff from each
other, stuff that is tearing them both up inside. Will they ever be able to put
their past behind them? Can they face their past and do what is right to right
all the wrongs? Can they forgive themselves for the things they have done? Will
they ever be able to lay down their ghosts?
Redemptions
is a very fast paced read that had be from the get go. It is filled with action
and suspense from the first page that had me hooked right up until the end or
has it let go even now? No I don’t think that the Moonchild series is going to
let me go for a long time. I don’t think I will ever forget this world with the
airships and the clothes as well as all the fighting and knife throwing. This
is one series I would love to see on the big screen to see if how I saw it
playing out in my head would be even close to the same. I would love to read
more about these characters and their world. What trouble will follow them
next? Where will they go?
I highly recommend Redemption and the whole Moonchild series
to all fans of dystopia and science fiction fans.
My Review of Liberation (Moonchild
#2):
In Liberation we get to see a little bit more into
Scarlett’s past to learn more about the wrench that was thrown in her life that
helped to make her the person she is today. She still has those walls thrown up
around her heart and Asher is slowly tearing them down. But then something
happens and she slams them back up.
They get a distress call from Paget and are only able to
make out a few words with one of them being trapped. Paget took off one night
after her and Asher had a big fight. They haven’t heard from her in a long time
until she tried to reach to them asking for their help.
Their search for Paget takes them to her home land in the Hocking
Hills. Where ever they go trouble seems to follow them putting their lives in
danger leaving death and destruction in its wake. Will they find Paget before
it is too late?
Liberation is just as good if not better than the first book
Moonchild. The world building and the descriptions of said world just seem to
get better and better. The characters seem to have grown more and are thinking
more about others than their selves. Scarlett is a very mature person to be
able to put her feelings aside and do what is right by going with them to look
for Paget without complaining.
Liberation is filled with action from beginning to end with
plenty of twists and turns to keep me glued to the page trying to figure out
where the story was going to go next and wondering if they were ever going to
find Paget and if they did would they make it in time? Once I picked up
Liberation I couldn’t put it down it had me enthralled just like Moonchild. I
just can’t’ seem to get enough of these characters and their world. I can’t
wait to dive into the next book Redemption.
I highly recommend Liberation to all fans of dystopia and
science fiction with plenty of action and excitement that will keep you
guessing right up until the end.
My Review of Moonchild (Moonchild #1):
Technology is lost to the world now and it is run off of
coal. The coal mines have been set up as prisons. Anyone who breaks the rules
is sent to the coal mines. It is just a way to get away with cheap or free
labor. A lot of people would be needed to mine enough coal for the world.
Scarlett a young nineteen year old woman lived in foster
homes and on the streets most of her life with no place to really call home
until the day she is sent to prison. Scarlett has no plans of spending her life
mining coal or being a prisoner so she escapes. Now she is on the run and
hiding out from the enforcers.
Scarlett and her friends Rory, Dex and Turk are out
scavenging for supplies when they run into enforcers. They soon find themselves
in a battle with the enforcers trying to evade capture. If the enforcers
capture them they will be sent back to the mines. Scarlett, Dex and Turk are
rescued by coal smuggling pirates in an airship but poor Rory is captured by
the enforcers.
Scarlett has every intention of saving her friend before she
is sold at action to the highest bidder as a sex slave. She is going to need
help finding Rory and enlists the help of their new friends the pirates. One of
the pirates Asher is the one who informs Scarlett that the pretty girls are not
sent to the mines but are sold as sex slaves.
Scarlett is one tough cookie who has experienced so much in
her young life. A wrench was thrown in her life which helped to make her the
person that she is today. This wrench helped to make her a strong willed person
who has probably built walls up around her heart to keep people out and make
her seem as if she has no feelings.
Scarlett and Asher were attracted to each other from the
first time they laid eyes on each other but Scarlett is keeping him at a
distance not letting him in. I think Scarlett is afraid of getting hurt. Asher
is going to have to try to slowly break through the walls that she has put up
if he wants to be with her.
Scarlett is a very strong person who knows how to take care
of herself and knows how to fight and is pretty good at it. I see her as
someone who may have taught themselves how to fight with a lot of practice. I
do wonder how she got all that experience. Was it from practicing or in
training? Or did she learn to fight from having no choice? For instance did she
learn to thrown a punch from training or did she get it from real life
experience like on the job training so to speak?
Moonchild is a great read it is filled with lots of action
from the first page. It kept me flipping the pages and racing through the
streets with Scarlett, Dex, Asher and the rest of the crew trying to find Rory.
I love the world that was created for Moonchild and the
characters all seemed so real with real life experiences and problems. Scarlett
seems like someone I would want to be friends with.
I think that deep inside of most of us there is a little
part of us that wants to be like Scarlett someone who can fight her own battles
knowing that she can’t always depend on someone being there with her every
single moment to keep her safe. I know I have and I guess that is why I love
books with characters like Scarlett who are strong inside and out and can kick
butt.
Moonchild is an amazing read and I think that it has
enthralled me so much so that it is going to stay with me for a long time to
come. I just love the world of Moonchild and the characters. I can’t wait to
dive into the next book Liberation to read more of this world and see what the
characters are up to.
If you like post-apocalyptic and or steampunk novels then
you are going to love Moonchild.
Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of Adult, New Adult, and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance! Her YA book, When We Were Human, was a 2015 Children's Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and a 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal winner for Young Adult Science Fiction. Her book, Outliers, was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction, and a First Place Winner in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction.
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