Preselected

by Gary Yates

Aaron Guest didn’t ask to be saved - in fact, he was given very little choice in the matter. Taken from his home and transported to a secret underground facility with thousands of strangers, left to start a new life in the wake of a catastrophic global event. Now, four years later, things are happening. Strange things. Riots, public disturbances and deadly viruses might be considered odd in most communities, but not here in Hades. Hades is the darkest and seediest of the four districts that make up humanity’s last hope… ...welcome to Olympus

323 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2017

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good plot, good characters, good story, but REALLY needs an editor. Baron vs barren, sympathy vs symphony, passed vs past...

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

I grabbed this book from freebooksy.com quite some time ago and finally got around to reading it. I found myself becoming annoyed when I first started the book due to the author’s overuse of simile. “Every morning, this alarm. Shrieking at me like an exotic bird in heat.” It just felt corny and unnecessary most of the time. My second issue, as another reviewer also mentioned, is that there are a lot of editing errors throughout the book. Those things aside, I actually thought Preselected was a pretty decent read. Set in a dystopian future after a meteor destroys life as we know it and mankind goes underground for survival. Then a terrifying virus breaks out and suddenly our protagonist, Aaron, along with his cohort, are in a battle for their lives. Preselected kept me interested enough to keep reading on. I’m not sure I loved it so much as to make it a point to go on to the next book (if and when Yates releases that) but I wouldn’t completely rule it out either. Yates shows promise as an author and it would be interesting to see some growth in future novels he produces.

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rose

Being confined to live underground becomes terrorizing as an epidemic begins to spread among the population. Is there hope to getting out of the clutches of those who have become ill? This story tells all. Happy reading!