Year One by Nora Roberts
Publication Date: December 5, 2017
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
It began on New Year’s Eve.
The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed–and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.
Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river–or in the ones you know and love the most.
As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.
In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.
The end has come. The beginning comes next.
What are your thoughts? Have you read this book? Would you recommend it to others?
hard to go wrong with a nora roberts novel, though i am behind on reading her latest work. hope you enjoy it when you get a chance to read it
sherry @ fundinmental
I love crows! I miss the pet jackdaws we used to have in the garden. Even Rodney the squirrel has been AWOL for three days!
So I own this one AND the next one and have almost grabbed the third . I'm horrible I tell ya!
This sounds really good. I love the premise and the characters sound interesting too!
Oh yes I remember hearing about this one
I haven't read it but it does sound really good.
I bought all 3 of these on audio and have wanted to read them forever! I'll do a buddy read if you want to do it!
Anne – Books of My Heart
I would love that Anne! I have the first two audiobooks ready to go. Let's figure out when we want to do it.
Woohoo! I loved this one on audio. I need to continue with the other two in the series. Hope you like it when you get the chance.
The library has this one…read it 😉
Carole! You own this is two formats. You need to read it. I remember seeing good things about this book, but you have to consider, that you will be committing to another series as well. Tough choice.
Surely you are going to listen to the audio while reading it, right?!
This is a book I REALLY want to read so badly. I just love this author dearly. Hope you love this one.
I have heard great things about this one as well. I have only read Roberts' J.D. Robb books (and only a couple of them at that!). I hope you enjoy this one when you read it!
This seemed like something so different for Roberts so it was great to see such good reviews. Often it seems like readers are hesitant when an author branches out from their usual genre.
This book sounded like one I would totally love, but it ended up being too long with too many characters who all blended together. By the end, I just didn't care about any of it. I hope you like it better than I did!
This does sound like an interesting series. Hope you enjoy it!!
I have a Nora Roberts book on my shelf from ages ago that I really need to read too! I won it back when I started book blogging DD:
A lot of people love these books. I hope you can get to it, soon. ?✨