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I've read the entire Series, I would recommend the series to anyone, Even the Second Time Around It was a pageturner, I wish this writer would write more series, Definitely want to read his next books, was more of wrap up ending but still satisfactory, There are alot of obvious flaws in the book, the ethical and moral kinds so I'm kind of glad its the last book.
And if you find and read the book you will realise why it was taken off shelves Less well developed than the first two, it still brings the series to a hopeful end.
The Chatfield family, scattered across the globe continue to fight for survival, Their only hope is to form one strong community together, but power struggles, violence and deception keep them apart.
In this thrilling conclusion to the Blood Line trilogy, the New Zealand community makes a last desperate bid to return to their relatives and Blood Roots in England.
Along the way they discover more survivors of the superSARS pandemic, but is this new addition to the gene pool more trouble than it's worth
Blood Roots will keep you guessing to the very end.
I read the first two of this trilogy several years ago, in quick succession, and had thoroughly enjoyed them, but had been unable to find the third part anywhere as it seemed to be permanently out of print, and had almost given up on knowing how it ended until finding it
on Amazon as an ebook recently.
I enjoy postapocalyptic fiction mostly for the accounts of survival and the practicalities of life in a new world.
This book had a lot less of that, and was much for focussed on the nastiness of humans once they find themselves in a survival of the fittest situation.
We begin with Mark and the remaining NZ family members mourning the deaths of Holly and Zoe from the engineered strain of typhoid that only kills those with dark skin.
Steven has taken a small group back to England because they are homesick ! for the UK, and Mark decides that if they are all to survive, the rest need to leave NZ to rejoin the larger group, even knowing that they may be returning to slavery at the hands of the evil branch of the family.
There's a lot of boring details about sailing, adventure midway as they find some more survivors in America, and then the return to Haver Hall and the discovery of the atrocities that have been going on there.
While perhaps a reality, the constant rapes and the way most of the characters all accept this as normal was very disturbing for some reason female rape is considered OK especially if it leads to a baby, but male rape is regarded as unforgivable and to be prevented at all costs.
Several plot points were left unanswered: we never find out who the traitor was, and everyone seems to forget about the risk of typhoid killing the new black characters including babies.
PA fiction can never really have a happy ending, but the community are at least left in a fairly safe position that may just about safeguard the human race.
The twist at the end was no great surprise and really just another nasty but probably not surprising consequence of their new circumstances, and I didn't mind Mark's ending.
Overall a good trilogy in terms of premise, plot, pace and personalities, but let down by fairly average writing and an excessive amount of nastiness.
I enjoyed the other two novels in Michael Green's "Blood" series and the conclusion in Blood Roots does not disappoint.
A recommended read. Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Michael Green is a successful computer consultant and professional speaker, Author of two humorous books and one called Successful Speechmaking, he has also won many speechmaking competitions, Spending some of his time in the UK, some in New Zealand and some on the water on his yacht, he has been working on the sequel to Bloodline Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
sitelink See this thread for information, Michael Green is a successful computer consultant and professional speaker, Author of two humorous books and one called Successful Speechmaking, he has also won many speechmaking competitions, Spending some of his time in the UK, some in New Zealand and some on the water on his yacht, he has been working on the sequel to Bloodline sitelink.