After and Again - Michael McLellan Review

Book: after and again

Author: Michael A. Mclellan

Book Synopsis:

Centuries after a cataclysmic event drastically changed the world, fifteen-year-old Zack McQueen stumbles upon a cave filled with relics from a nearly forgotten era. Relics that could both reshape his destiny, and forever change the future for all living things. Returning home, he finds his town in ruins, and his loved ones missing. Vowing to find them, he embarks on an epic journey of danger, love, and self-discovery that will take him to places that he’d never imagined possible.

Book Review:

It always seems like something military/war related that brings on the end of the world. In After and Again, we follow the trail of our hero Zack as he attempts to rescue those dearest to him. This book combined several different genres including adventure, romance, and even a western theme to the story, and did so quite nicely. I enjoyed the determination of our hero, and the fact that as the story played out we learned more about the blunders made in the past which helped explain why the world was as it was during Zack's present. One thing I did wish for was maybe more from the point of Zack's 'sidekick' Max. We get one snippet but it leaves me wanting to know more from him and his loyalty to our hero. With an ending that left me wanting to continue the tale, After and Again is a great read that probably has a little bit of something everyone loves. 

Favorite Quotes:

 “You go to hell!” the old man spat.   “Yes yes, if such a place exists, I will surely go there someday.

Giveaway & Book Blitz: Recruitz - Karice Bolton

Title: RecruitZ

Author: Karice Bolton
Series: Afterworld (#1)
Publication date: December 27th 2013
Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic

Synopsis:

Scientists are the new rock stars. The infection has been contained for nearly three months, and the world is celebrating. But humans are still dying. Rebekah Taylor has seen it firsthand. Her husband was killed right in front of her by the very creatures that humans were told they no longer had to fear.

Rebekah is determined to find out who is responsible for the death of her husband and the obvious cover-up. Fueled with revenge, she begins to find answers that lead to one frightening conclusion. The apocalypse might be over, but the battles are just beginning.

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Alive Krewella

All Good Zeroleen

Android Porn Kraddy

Animals Martin Garrix

Animals Muse

Apologize OneRepublic

Bad Girls MIA

Beam Me Up Cazzette

Beast Nico Vega

Berzerk Eminem

Better Off Alone The Black Angels

Bird Machine (feat Alesia) DJ Snake

Black No. 1 TypeO Negative

Boneless Steve Aoki, Chris Lake & 

Born to die Lana Del Rey

Bright Stars Burning Hey Marseilles

Bullet Train (feat Joni Fatora) Stephen Swartz

Eclipse MinecraftUniverse

Eyes On Fire (Zeds Dead Remix) Blue Foundation

Fallen Imagine Dragons

Fineshrine Purity Ring

Flower Moby

Follow Me Muse

For What it’s Worth Buffalo Springfield

For Whom the Bell Tolls Metallica

Ghosts that We Knew Mumford & Sons

Gods and Monsters Lana Del Ray

Hide N.A.S.A.

Higher Ground TNGHT

Hold On Alabama Shakes

Honest Band of Skulls

Hurricane MS MR

Hurricane MS MR

I Can’t Stop Flux Pavilion

Jawbreaker The Dead Weather

Liquid State Muse

Not Your Fault AWOLNATION

Original Don (feat. The Partysquad) Major Lazer

Porcelain Moby

Tujamo

Radioactive Imagine Dragons

Remember Thomas Gold

Romeo Until the Ribbon Breaks

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Sawdust in the Blood Rob Zombie

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Sierra Leone Mt. Eden

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Soldier’s Poem Muse

Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event

Sympathy for the Devil Rolling Stones

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Things We Lost in the Fire Bastille

This is What it Feels Like Armin van Buuren

Tidal Wave Sub Focus

Tiptoe Imagine Dragons

Tsunami - Dvbbs & Borgeous

Wake Me Up - Avicii

Where is my Mind? - Pixies

Who Are you - The Who

Y.A.L.A.-  M.I.A

Karice Bolton lives in the Pacific Northwest and is a writer of Young Adult and New Adult books. She loves to read anything and everything. She also enjoys baking, skiing, and spending time with her wonderful husband and two English bulldogs.

Books currently available:
*Beyond Love Series: Beyond Control (Book 1) Beyond Doubt (Book 2) Beyond Reason (Book 3) – Feb. 28th
*Afterworld Series: RecruitZ (Book 1)
*The Witch Avenue Series: Lonely Souls (Book 1), Altered Souls (Book 2), Released Souls (Book 3) Shattered Souls (Book 4)
*The Watchers Trilogy: Awakening (Book 1), Legions (Book 2), Cataclysm (Book 3), Taken Novella (Watchers Prequel)
*The Camp

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Book Blitz: Resurrection - Laury Falter

Book: Resurrection
Author: Laury Falter
Series: Apocalypse Chronicles #2
Publication date: January 18th 2014
Genres: Horror, Post-Apocalyptic, Young Adult, Zombies

Synopsis:

The second and final installment in the two-book series, Apocalypse Chronicles…a dystopian romance about five high school seniors who set out to cure an apocalyptic world of a contagious infection.

Bestselling author Laury Falter finishes off this two-part series–a dystopian romance filled with an electrifying plot, a powerful romance, and unexpected twists.

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Laury Falter is a bestselling author of young adult romantic suspense and urban fantasy. She has three series out: the Guardian Trilogy, the Residue Series, and the Apocalypse Chronicles.

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Giveaway & Book Blitz: Alive - Megan D. Martin

Series: Crave #1

Teacher: Alive

Author: Megan D. Martin 
Publication date: November 22nd, 2013
Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Romance

Book Synopsis:

Flesh-eating zombies, dirty sex, and a shattered past…
What’s more dangerous—the man who broke her heart or those trying to eat it?

Fighting to survive, Eve finds herself alone in the world after the Crave—the only parallel of her former life. On the hunt for her sister, she runs into Gage—the first and only boy to have her heart and break it. It’s been four years and he isn’t a boy anymore, nor is he the same person he used to be. Against her better judgment, Eve agrees to stay with him when he divulges information on a safe haven near the small town they grew up in—but that doesn’t mean she has to like it…

Returning home elicits a myriad of emotions that both Eve and Gage thought they had buried. The past and present collide and they are  forced to the face bitter deceits that ruined them in the before and threaten to destroy them now…

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Megan D. Martin is a multi-published author, mother, student and editor. In her spare time she enjoys decorating her house with strange things that do not match, playing her old school Nintendo Entertainment System, and buying fish for her many fish tanks.

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Cover Reveal: What Remains by Nicole R. Taylor

Book: What Remains
Author: Nicole R. Taylor
Publication Date: October 15th, 2013
Genre: Adult, Post-Apocalyptic
Cover Designer:  Paper and Sage Design

Book Synopsis:
I’d never known true darkness until the lights went out.
I had never known what it was to be hungry.
Everyone I ever knew was dead. If they weren't, then they wished they were.
I know I did.
Prue Ashford has been surviving alone in the Australian bush for the last three years. After an unknown virus wiped out most of the human population, she escaped the chaos and hid. Every town and city was locked down into quarantine, but that only led to the inevitable. Death.
Living off the land, avoiding other survivors turned bad, she’s led a lonely life, surviving on the edge of a very narrow cliff. The moment she begins to lose hope is when she meets the handsome and enigmatic, Shaw.
He’s the first human being she’s seen in three years that hasn't tried to kill her and she doesn't dare to hope. She’d given up finding anyone alive that still had goodness inside of them.
Her only option if she wants to live is to trust Shaw and he takes her to the isolated community he calls home. Being among people again is it’s own challenge and Prue finds herself tested on every front. Making friends was never easy for her and making them after an apocalypse is even harder.
Hannah, the town’s apprentice doctor, becomes the closest thing Prue has to a best friend and Nan fast becomes her surrogate mother. Shaw brings feelings to the surface that she would rather forget and Eva, the mayor’s daughter, seems hell bent on making her life a living hell.
In the end, Prue must make a decision. Stay in the town at the end of the world and learn how to love again, or go back into the wasteland of human civilisation and go it alone.
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What Remains is a gritty story of human survival. When society crumbles and chaos reigns, people become desperate. They turn to violence and resort to extreme measures to go on living. Parts of this story may be confronting for some people. It contains violent situations staged by desperate people, the extremes that people go to to show their love and a dose of bad language. It’s recommended for readers 18 and up.

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AUTHOR BIO:

                                 
Nicole R. Taylor is a Paranormal, Urban Fantasy and Contemporary Romance author from country Victoria, Australia.

Previously, she has written for various small street press music and entertainment publications as a gig and album reviewer before publishing her first Urban Fantasy novel in early 2013.

When she isn't writing, Nicole likes to spend time curled up with a good book and her 3-year-old rescue cat, Burger. She gets itchy feet more often than not and has lived in three countries and travelled to three times as many.

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