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trilogy by Harley Tate was PHENOMENAL!!!!!!! This was my first post apocalyptic sci fi book and wow, my expectations were set very high! What an act to follow for the next book I read.


I could not imagine living in a world where there is a global CME explosion and the nuclear grid goes out.
The story captures the what if's and was explained and told beautifully!! I was hooked and couldn't put the books down.
Wish there were more!!!

Next time I'm driving in the car and my XM goes out.
. . I'll look up!!
I am loving this series, This one pretty fastpaced. it is well written and you will like the characters they are so believable, The characters grow up so much more with each book.
We are on this journey with them right by their sides, I cant wait to start book,
I'm more on the fence with this one, Madison is finely starting to get a clue but this whole group gets mired down in "let's check this out".
There is a lot of turmoil about how their innocent lives have changed especially from Madison's parents.
I assume it is an effort to illustrate the changes that we would all have to go through in adjusting to a new way of life, but it was throughout the book and tended to bog down the story.
The event of getting where they are going was very, very brief at the end, A week after the unthinkable, would you still have hope

With their house destroyed, the Sloane family sets off for the promise of safety in a cabin in Northern California.
When a distress call comes through on the radio, young Madison is adamant: a detour to the nearby college is the only choice.



What would you do to keep your family safe

Walter hates to

risk his familys life for the sake of a stranger.
But his wife and copilot need antibiotics and a college health center may be their best bet.
Finding the strength to survive what happens next will be the hardest thing hes ever done.



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


With the power grid destroyed and the government unable to help, the Sloanes are alone in a world losing hope.
Will they survive a rescue mission or will the detour be the last stop on their journey

The EMP is only the beginning.


Darkness Rises is book three in After the EMP, a postapocalyptic thriller series following ordinary people attempting to survive after a geomagnetic storm destroys the nations power grid.
The adventure continues with lots of self doubt

The adventure brings lots of murder, suffering and heart ache for each member of our little band of survivors.
Each with their own problems but also strengths for the challenges that they will face in this new devolving landscape.
Couldn't finish it. It's a story of stupid people doing stupid things, Just couldn't read one more "oh I'm ayear old girl so I'm going to do the dumbest thing possible by running off by myself to kill a bunch of people when I gave neither the experience or the skills to do so.
" Another great read in this After the EMP series I can't wait for bookto come out so I get to know how things go with the Sloan family, and friends.
Once again I had a hard time putting the reader down,

Reread Mayth, Just as good reading it for thend time, Unbelievably awesome! I love this series This book reminded me of all the things we take for granted, like food, water, a shower, and a safe place to live.
I can't wait to see what the next book holds, This book, I really got annoyed, The main character's sense of wanting to help everyone out almost got her entire group killed.
I understand wanting to help when you can, but in situations like this, you have to watch out for yourself, and your family.
If you are not in a good situation yourself, should you drop everything to go to a stranger's aid
I felt like the last few chapters of this book were rushed, and I just did not get a sense of completion.
Again, the normalcy bias kept creeping in to some of the characters, and it was just frustrating to see it, in the face of everything they had encountered over the past week or two.
I kept reading mainly because I wanted to see where the story was going to go.
Despite being intermittently annoyed with the characters and their often inconsistent behaviors, Despite the author's fondness for telling things instead of showing, Despite the awkward internal monologues, It's clear, at least to me, that Tate put a lot of thought into the story arc, and seemed to have had fun writing it.
The author's body of knowledge is just as clear and I appreciate the effort that went into weaving that into the story, rather than infodumping, even if the exposition flirted with that from time to time.
If nothing else, Tate, along with a great many other postapocalyptic authors, clearly expresses a stance on whether humans are basically good or basically evil, and how that comes out when the restrictions of society are lifted.
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I just finished reading book three and have to say I am sad.
I want more what happens to the rest of the world, do the kids fall in love, etc, This is therd book in Tates EMP series, There certain moral dilemmas that are faced in this book that I personally struggled with, Spoiler: The attack on the student pharmacy amp subsequent actions inside, . . Why attack it without asking those inside for help Why not try to barter with them Food amp water for medicine
Other than this I enjoyed this installment amp like the characters.
For the most part, I find the story plausible, I dont have to suspend belief to step into this,
The nextbooks follow different characters in the same world, I hope the author comes back to the Sloanes in the future, I thought bookwas a satisfying conclusion to this trilogy, All three books are very fast paced, and are gripping, tense reads, Great cast of very well developed main characters, that will draw you in,

Makes you think a lot about how skilled you would be at surviving without electricity.
The Amish would probably have it the easiest, because they are selfsufficient already, We should all at least invest in the Foxfire books, and learn how to grow and preserve food.
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Didn't like this one as much h as the others, Too much of "I failed you" mentality, If only. If only. I should have. Could have. But the storyline falls into place, I've read six After the EMP series, They all have problems and don't rise to my being able to recommend any of them.
They were interesting enough for me to read, Especially since they only cost me a buck or two each, The author definitely has an ax to grind, To be fair many of these after disaster stories do, Several of his particular axes rubbed me the wrong way, Many times he will have characters be convinced not to do something, but if his particular main character decides to do it, it suddenly becomes the thing to do.
There is a lot of, surviving is the point of all of morality, His characters are very uneven, Many times they do things because that would give the story more conflict rather than this is how it would work in the real world.
His impatience for any alternate theories for how to live one's life bothered me a great deal.
Still, I read six of them and am reading the seventh, Take that for what it's worth, Darkness Rises is the third story in what is an essentially a trilogy of novellas of how Madison, her parents, and her friends cope with the sudden loss of electric power in California.
They have left their home outside of Sacramento and are heading to the home of Brianna's parents, longtime doomsday preppers.
The end of book two has the group seriously considering a stop at a college campus to help a woman and her friends who claimed to be trapped in a radio station.


“One of us might die, We could lose all that we have, ” Madison knew the danger. But she couldnt leave someone to die, Not when she was pleading for help, “I know what were risking, but we have to try, If we dont, what kind of people are we”

That's a bit eyerolling, don't you think But I don't know I'm a long ways from twenty.
Still, you'd think the parents would have more sense, While I enjoyed this installment, it didn't impress as much as the first two books in the trilogy.
It gets bogged down in the viewpoint of Walter, who becomes less selfreliant Army guy and more family man who is faced with role conflict.
It could be, of course, that Tate just envisions this as Walter's character, except he's an airline pilot and is used to leaving his wife and collegeage daughter to take care of themselves on a weekly basis.
This desire to protect and shelter seems more than a bit inconsistent,

Meanwhile, his daughter Madison is continuing to struggle with the ethical problems of a likely apocalypse: who do you help and why in a time of extremely limited resources She's been over this material in book one and two, so it feels a little more tiresome to be repeating it in three.
But on the other side of things, it's probably a lesson that will take a while to sink in.
In one of the more useless and stupid moments of the book, both Madison and Tracy appear to be keeping the fact that they each killed someone from Walter.


That said, I did appreciate that Tate doesn't just hand survival to characters, Sometimes, despite best intentionsor best actionsbad luck or direct attacks just happen, I think many stories like to go with a formula, and if the characters do all the 'right' things, survival is guaranteed, but not here.


Every now and then there's a line that sounds more authorial than characterspecific, particularly in relation to the government riding to the rescue and private gun ownership.
At first it annoyed me, but it wasn't frequent enough to be a serious detractor:

"Every drug dealer and petty criminal in this town has a gun, but none of the good people do.
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A potentially intriguing point, except that we've already learned from books one and two that some of the 'good people' with guns were equally dangerous for Madison and the family.
It highlights one of the major weaknesses of Tate's style so far, that the writing is very straightforward and misses nuances.
The benefit is that the story goes quickly, The downside, of course, is that it's not always enough to carry the subtleties of thought and ethics that I think Tate is going for.
But occasionally it's redeemed through insightful observations:

"She knew hard work, but it was in the confines of plenty and abundance.
There was never a time she went to bed hungry or risked her life to listen to the radio.
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It is an interesting point, and one survival tales rarely dive into: the main characters are almost always people from privileged backgrounds, and might therefore be less likely to deal with the real challenge of an apocalypsethe end of comfort and ease.
Perhaps that's shown here with the discomfort the group has with breaking and entering, and the false assurances they give themselves that the owner will not make it back.
Does it matter I was a bit impatient that this was even a discussion after all they had been through.


As a simple Aesop's Survival Tales, it's definitely an adequate read, I feel like Tate is walking the reader through various mental and physical preparations, As a complex philosophical discussion, I think the 'After the EMP' trilogy occasionally misses the mark.
Still, a solid wrapup to a diverting group of novellas, I admit that I am very curious to see what Tate does with the next trilogy in this worldthat of a Navy SEAL and a young woman from a very challenged upbringing.
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