Darkness: After the EMP

By: Harley Tate

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kevin Pierce, Gabra Zackman

If the power grid fails, how far will you go to survive?

Madison spends her days tending plants as an agriculture student at the University of California, Davis. She plans to graduate and put those skills to work only a few hours from home in the Central Valley. The sun has always been her friend, until now.

When catastrophe strikes, how prepared will you be?

Tracy starts her morning like any other, kissing her husband Walter goodbye before heading off to work at the local public library. She never expects it to end fleeing for her life in a Suburban full of food and water. Tackling life's daily struggles is one thing, preparing to survive when it all crashes down is another.

The end of the world brings out the best and worst in all of us.

With no communication and no word from the government, the Sloanes find themselves grappling with the end of the modern world all on their own. Will Madison and her friends have what it takes to make it back to Sacramento and her family? Can Tracy fend off looters and thieves and help her friends and neighbors survive?

The EMP is only the beginning.

After the EMP: Darkness follows the Sloane family as they attempt to survive after a geomagnetic storm destroys the nation's power grid.

©2017 Harley Tate (P)2017 Podium Publishing

Focused on weaknesses vs strengths

Continuous whining by stupid Madison soured the story. One would think Pollyanna would have wised up quickly. And Walter’s hero complex killed a number of people. What was he thinking?

Finally a realistic story

Finally a book that doesn’t involve the main characters owning thousands of dollars worth of automatic weapons and hand grenades and a friend with a blackhawk helicopter. Realistic characters, who struggle with the inevitable moral decisions that will be encountered in a end of the world event. Very enjoyable story, well told and well written.

Great Apocalyptic ReaD For Female Tweeners

There is no doubt that the author can tell a story. My concerns come from the confusion with the idea that the author is an early twenty something with little to no life experience, the fact that she is writing for tweeners, or that she is trying to parody the ultra liberal populace. The amount of time that the characters spend “conflicted” is distracting and downright annoying. This renders the all af the characters unsympathetic leaving the reader ambivalent about the characters survival.

Good Narrators, Story not bad

I don't like to leave negative review because I imagine most authors work really hard to deliver a good story and put a lot of themselves into it. This book wasn't bad but it wasn't amazing either. It wasn't the same old apocalypse story so that's a bonus but it just didn't fully deliver. There were interesting parts and new takes on survival. I enjoy picking up new facts and new survival ideas from books like this so it does provide that.

Interesting

Any additional comments?

I found Madison to be a naive ignorant whiny little girl. Throughout most of this story I wanted to reach in and smack her around. On the other hand her friend Brianna I like quite a bit she seem to have the most sense between the 4 college kids. It's not a great read but it's not the worst thing I've ever listened to.