Each time they come across a new homestead, settlement or city, they have to consider how to approach it. Always on the lookout for treachery and malintent.
Gabby finds herself evaluating her every interaction with her team, is she being fair on them or indeed herself. Or is she overreacting to things they say and do. It is an extremely difficult situation, leading a team in a world that has changed beyond all recognition since you last saw it before hibernation.
Carmen and Harmony Verona are sisters, they are intent on unifying the disparate groups of settlements and tribes to ensure that humanity can continue in an organised manner. It's just that their way of doing things has turned a little barbaric along the way. Many fear them and resist their dominion, often to their own demise once the sisters arrive on the scene.
Eventually, the paths of the Verona's and Gabby's team cross, indirectly. And while the sisters are occupied, the team flees. Though what they flee to, is less comfortable that Gabby had found herself for a time. More hybrids from Arda are in the world than Gabby realised, something she finds out at great personal expense, while scouting for the protection of the team.
Though even the sisters find hardship awaits them.
This book takes us deeper into the new world after the fire and we meet the disparate groups of people who have survived to this point. Some are downright bad folks, but there are the odd few who shine out brightly and help the team.
I cannot say anything bad about this book, it really kept me reading on, wanting to know what happened next, while not wanting to finish the story.
"“I told you: No one is special.” Carmen drew her saber and thrust the blade through the other woman’s chest. Blood spurted from the wound, and the silver-haired woman looked down in disbelief, then she crumpled, gasping."
I received a free copy of this novel from the author in exchange for a fair and honest review.
5/5 Stars (What this means...five-stars-applied-carefully)
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A changed world. A deadly world.
Major Gabby Alonso woke to violence and an AI bent on killing her. She wasn't ready to die.
Now she has to lead the last remnants of her team into the world they were supposed to rebuild, to reclaim from centuries-old ruins.
While the world has changed, it's nothing like the training and simulations had taught her to expect. Except, that is, for its lethality.
Petty tyrants, misguided pacifists, bloodthirsty marauders—Alonso can trust no one, racing from one threat to the next, always trying to stay just ahead of death on her way to find the peaceful promise of someone named Reggie Lee.
Grab your copy of this thrilling post-apocalyptic tale now and follow the bloody path that leads Over Burning Sands.
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