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Carregando... House of the Rising Sun: A Novelde Richard Cox
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. An EMP kills all electricity on Earth. People soon run out of food and become dangerous. This was written in 2019 and references politics at the time. I enjoyed this apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction novel. I liked the cover and the title - named after the song "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals. A strange new star appears in the sky and human life grinds to a halt. Everything electronic stops working. There is the usual group of characters who attempt to survive together, while the world falls apart. And through these various characters we see reflected the various attitudes and beliefs of the American people today. None of the characters are particularly likeable, but they do seem to be real in an American sort of way. The book was OK, not too bad but didn't really grab me. Gave it 3* Thank you to Edelweiss, the publisher and the author for sending me this ARC. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: Both a frightening apocalyptic story set in the southern United States and a character-focused, deeply moving literary thriller. What would happen if technology all over the world suddenly stopped working? When a strange new star appears in the sky, human life instantly grinds to a halt. Across the world, anything and everything electronic stops working completely. At first, the event seems like a bizarre miracle to Seth Blackâ??it interrupts his suicide attempt and erases gambling debt that threatened to destroy his family. But when Seth and his wife, Natalie, realize the electricity isn't coming back on, that their the food supplies won't last, they begin to wonder how they and their two sons will survive. Meanwhile, screenwriter Thomas Phillipsâ??an old friend of Natalie'sâ??has just picked up Skylar Stover, star of his new movie, at the airport when his phone goes dead and planes begin to fall from the sky. Thomas has just completed a script about a similar electromagnetic event that ended the world. Now, he's one of the few who recognizes what's happening and where it will lead. When Thomas and Skylar decide to rescue Natalie and Seth, the unwilling group must attempt to survive together as the world falls apart. They try to hide in Thomas's home and avoid desperate neighbors, but fear they'll soon be roaming the streets with starving refugees and angry vigilantes intent on forming new governments. It's all they can do to hold on to each other and their humanity. Yet all the while, unbeknownst to them, Aiden Christopherâ??a bitter and malignant man leveraging a crumbling society to live out his darkest, most amoral fantasiesâ??is fighting to survive as well. And he's on a collision course with Thomas, Skylar, and the Black fa Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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