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G X Todd

Autor(a) de Defender

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Séries

Obras de G X Todd

Defender (2017) 52 cópias
Hunted (2018) 12 cópias
Survivors (2019) 6 cópias
Ghosts (2021) 1 exemplar(es)

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female

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I was so excited to receive this book early to review I almost pissed my pants, 😂 but I managed to curb my enthusiasm long enough to re-read the series from the beginning, to refresh my memory, and although there was no need to do so I think I enjoyed Defender especially more this time around, which I didn’t think would be possible!

You don’t need to re-read the first two books again before picking this book up, there is enough backstory peppered throughout to refresh your memory and to follow the continuation with no problems at all. Where Hunted left on a bit of a cliffhanger, Survivors will keep you on that cliff edge dangling by your toes! There is the welcome back of some of both the good and bad characters as well as the introduction to some memorable new ones.

Survivors is primarily focused on Pilgrim’s story and it spends a lot of time in the past, his past, his backstory which was as enlightening as it was entertaining. He has been a bit of a closed book, a bit of an enigma up until now, so getting that character depth adds further understanding of the man himself, Voice and the voices’s themselves. His return was certainly unexpected as last time we saw him he was being buried alongside Red in Lacey’s sisters back garden! But return he has and as he travels forward he also has to revisit his past, the past he worked so hard to keep locked away, to fill in the missing holes of his memory. Only by unlocking his past can unlock his future and help him find his way back to Lacey, to defend her!

As with the previous books this one will also leave you desperately wishing for a time machine so we can jump to this time next year so we can finally found out how all this ends! I know I can’t wait! Thats the only downside to receiving ARC’s, there is longer to wait between book publication dates!

For fans old and new this is a great continuation of the series, one that’s a tumultuous stage that aligns all three books in preparation for the final showdown that’s to come.

#HearTheVoices

Survivors will be published on 31 October 2019 and is available to pre order now.
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DebTat2 | Oct 13, 2023 |
It's now 5:36am and I have given up on sleep! I put this book down several times and tried to sleep but my little brain just couldn't silence the voices!! :-) So i read a few more chapters, tried again, same result so now i have finished the book! My poor eyes are burning and feel like they are bleeding! A little over dramatic maybe but still true!

I have coveted this book for months after picking up a copy of the first book Defender and being completely sucked in by it, but now I kinda wish I had waited until the series was complete before reading them!! Hunted will be published on 31st May 2018 which means the wait for book 3 will now feel like an eternity!!

Other than to say how utterly brilliant this book is I don’t want to say too much about the story line as i don’t want to spoil it for anyone! ( I would be mad if someone let slip vital pieces of the story before id read it! ) There were several plot twists i didn’t expect which is always good and not an easy feat to accomplish as normally with some genre of books they follow similar paths. But this one has its own unique take on a apocalyptic world and the people left in it.

It is as good, if not better than the first book and that one was in a class of its own, so if you enjoyed Defender, Hunted will sweep you away. Honestly! It's that good!

Roll on book 3 as Hunted ends on an apocalyptic cliff hanger!
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DebTat2 | Oct 13, 2023 |
A girl with a gun. The man told to protect her. Or die trying.

#HearTheVoices

The front cover drew me towards this book to start off with and then reading that it had been rated on a level with Stephen King’s The Stand i knew it wold be a must read, but i did start with caution preparing to be disappointed.

Sometimes things just don’t live up to the hype but if anything this book surpassed my expectations! It is definitely a book i could read again and still be as enthralled with the story and the characters as i have been reading it now.
My only negative – Having to wait until next year for the next book to be released!
The book is set in a post-apocalyptic America where only a few have survived the madness that spread across the country. Unlike other books in this theme this destruction of the human race has not been brought about by nuclear explosions,, aliens or experiments. These are voices that appear inside people’s heads, a voice that for most of the entire population drive them to kill and suicide at a successful and rapid rate until only a few have managed to survive.
But not all voices are bad. A man who goes by the names Pilgrim or Boy Scout has been living with Voice inside his head, talking to him and working together to survive.
It is Voice that tells Pilgrim to stop and by a glass of lemonade from a young girl, Lacey, who has survived cut off from the world living on a in the desert.
Lacey and Pilgrim are destined to meet even though neither understand the importance their destinies bound together.
From Lacey’s Grammys farmhouse our two survivors travel across the country heading off in search of Lacey’s sister and niece, trying to avoid the pockets of sadistic groups that are on the hunt for anyone left alive that still have a voice inside their head, and anyone they find that doesn’t hear voices, they are rounding up for sport. Torture, rape murder. That is what the world has become for most.
No-one knows where these voices came from, what they are or what they want. Good versus Evil but with shades of grey in-between.
This is the first book in a 4 part series and book 1 leaves you desperate for more.
Even if you are not a massive fan of this genre type I would still recommend giving this book a read, I think it will surprise you and suck you in from the very first chapters!
I can’t praise this book highly enough, it is definitely 1 of the best books i have read all year 🙂
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DebTat2 | outras 2 resenhas | Oct 13, 2023 |
People have always heard voices in their heads, but these voices in this dystopian future are deadly. They have forced people to kill themselves and the few people left that have either not heard the voices or have resisted them are all that are left in this hollowed-out society. Pilgrim is one of the few who has a voice within and has resisted the taunting and almost has a working relationship with it.

Lacey is a girl who misses her sister, and since her gran died, she has been very much alone. Somehow she has survived the anarchy that is all that is left of her society, She sets up a stall selling lemonade and the first person to stop for a drink is Pilgrim; he has been told to by his voice. Her price for the drink is not money, but rather a lift to the city where her sister lives.

He reluctantly agrees, and after she has shut the house up, they set off. A brief stop in a motel demonstrates the danger that they are into Lacey, but they do manage to acquire another companion, Alex. As they approach the city where Karey lives, they start to come across members of a lawless gang who are on the search for a person who managed to escape from them. She was another with a voice in her head and they are always on the lookout for other people with voices within. Pilgrim hasn’t mentioned anything to Lacey about his, so she doesn’t realise just how much danger they are in. The encounter with the gang splits the three up and they know that they have to get back together to survive this cruel world.

This is a very fast-paced dystopian science fiction book that grabs you and runs relentlessly towards the ending. It is a brutal future too, the violence in this world Todd has created does not stop and yet within it all, is this paternal relationship that is developing between Pilgrim and Lacey as they look out for each other. I had the odd thing that I wasn’t sure about, I still don’t understand what the Voices are and I don’t think we are supposed to know until much later on. It reminded me a little of Host by Stephanie Meyer, combined with large dollops of American Gods and Mad Max. Whilst the plot is self-contained in this book, there is enough, that is left open for the next in the series, Hunted.
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PDCRead | outras 2 resenhas | Apr 6, 2020 |

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Obras
4
Membros
71
Popularidade
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Avaliação
½ 4.3
Resenhas
5
ISBNs
12
Idiomas
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