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Deathlands #71
Ritual Chill
BLOOD SUNSET
Time, and the fallout of a nuclear holocaust, have ravaged 21st century America, but one fundamental impulse of human nature the will to survive. And only the strongest do survive. Men like Ryan Cawdor, whose inner strength and stubborn resolve continue to defy the worst that Deathlands offers. With grim determination, he and his warrior group continue to face the stark and brutal choices of this new world that are often not choices at all, but imperatives. Act first, ask questions later.
STRANGE QUARRY
A cold sense of déjà vu becomes reality as the group emerges from a gateway they'd survived before�a grim graveyard of lost friends and nightmares. The consuming need to escape the dangerous melancholy of the place forces Ryan and company onto the frozen tundra, where an even greater menace awaits. The forbidding land harbors a dying tribe�cursed members of the ancient Inuit, who seize the arrival of Ryan and his band as their last hope to appease angry gods…by offering them up as human sacrifice. In the Deathlands, the price for survival is the constant fear of death.
352 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 15, 2014
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May 14, 2021
I listened to the audio and enjoyed it much more than expected. This is the first book that I have listened to in the Deathland series, but I enjoyed the characters and wanted to know what was going to happen to them.
July 3, 2011
Even by the standards of the Death Lands books (which are on par with Harlequin Romance novels, and is in fact published by Harlequin), this book was flat-out bad. I'll just say (because I don't want to waste any more time on it) that things only happen because the plot dictates that they must, the gun & gore porn is confusing and distracting, the author uses a handful of stock descriptive phrases over and over, the "lingo" is more distracting and jarring than confusing ("get chilled" "triple red" "trip-stupe", etc), there are a handful of five-dollar words thrown in (obviously they were on the author's word-a-day calendar), and... Just... Urrgghhh.
The only reason I even picked this up was because I'd read another one in the series, "Dark Carnival", when I was in my early teens and was moved by a combination of nostalgia and morbid curiosity. Wish I hadn't, at least with this particular title.
The only reason I even picked this up was because I'd read another one in the series, "Dark Carnival", when I was in my early teens and was moved by a combination of nostalgia and morbid curiosity. Wish I hadn't, at least with this particular title.
August 31, 2016
Were you ever annoyed by those post-jump dream sequences that rambled on and on and bore no import to anything that was to follow in the rest of the book? Well, imagine that stretching to an entire book. Now imagine that book was written by Doc, while in one of his fugues.
I'll stop there, but the book, if you choose to brave it, certainly won't. The characters end up going so far off the rails and out of character by the end, I can't even imagine why this was accepted by the publisher.
Written by Andy Boot under the Axler pseudonym.
Nuke shit!
I'll stop there, but the book, if you choose to brave it, certainly won't. The characters end up going so far off the rails and out of character by the end, I can't even imagine why this was accepted by the publisher.
Written by Andy Boot under the Axler pseudonym.
Nuke shit!
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