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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
I loved this book and can't wait for the next one! Nora Roberts has managed to write a novel that combines the best of her earlier works like the Born In trilogy, The Key trilogy and thrown in some of JD Robb's In Death series.
The world has been changed drastically by a plague called The Doom which has killed over half of the population on earth. Some people survive but are now gifted with different powers, there are elves and fairies and witches. Some people are the same, no powers. As with all good stories, there are good people and bad people, whether or not they have been gifted.
I loved the characters and really hope to catch up with some of my favourites in future books. I liked the storyline, it was new but at the same time reminded me of why I used to read Nora Roberts. There was a particular couple that reminded me of Eve and Roarke from the In Death series and I liked that.
Like I said, can't wait for the next one...
The world has been changed drastically by a plague called The Doom which has killed over half of the population on earth. Some people survive but are now gifted with different powers, there are elves and fairies and witches. Some people are the same, no powers. As with all good stories, there are good people and bad people, whether or not they have been gifted.
I loved the characters and really hope to catch up with some of my favourites in future books. I liked the storyline, it was new but at the same time reminded me of why I used to read Nora Roberts. There was a particular couple that reminded me of Eve and Roarke from the In Death series and I liked that.
Like I said, can't wait for the next one...
The dialogue heavy writing style lends to a better audiobook experience than read in my opinion. The story is very engaging and I’m always a sucker for people in different povs starting separate and finding each other through their journeys.
Weirdly Jesus adjacent in the end but setting up an intriguing book 2 if it follows Fallon.
Weirdly Jesus adjacent in the end but setting up an intriguing book 2 if it follows Fallon.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"When Ross MacLeod pulled the trigger and brought down the pheasant, he had no way of knowing he’d killed himself. And billions of others.” Day One is different from most other post-apocalypse novels. First, there's a fantasy elements as, after the plague, many survivors are imbued with magical abilities (used by some for good and others for evil). Second, it's a book that focuses on community and rebuilding. It's about hope and optimism when everything seems, literally, like it's going to hell in a hand basket. Enjoyable (though really sad in parts), with a range of characters. It's sort of like Stephen King's The Stand by way of Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic. It's the first in a trilogy and I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next.
When billions die by disease, magic rises. Those who once believed themselves to be human sprout wings and fangs. Witches, warlocks, sorcerers and sorceresses become supercharged. Shapeshifters emerge. Some follow the Light, some the Dark.
In the first year of this newly remade world, survivors strive to escape the chaos and violence that follows the collapse of the civilized world. Small groups become larger groups as they travel to more temperate climes in hopes of escaping the harsh northern winters.
Among the survivors is a pregnant witch that carries The One that will lead the battle against the Dark in this new world. As a community builds around this witch and her family, Dark forces amass with ill intent.
I couldn’t put this one down once I started it.
In the first year of this newly remade world, survivors strive to escape the chaos and violence that follows the collapse of the civilized world. Small groups become larger groups as they travel to more temperate climes in hopes of escaping the harsh northern winters.
Among the survivors is a pregnant witch that carries The One that will lead the battle against the Dark in this new world. As a community builds around this witch and her family, Dark forces amass with ill intent.
I couldn’t put this one down once I started it.
I can't even form one coherent thought about this book bc it's robbed me of speech! I'm so in love with this series. I TRULY wish that we got atleast one more book surrounding all these characters because it wasn't enough, I loved them. I am happy they all make appearances in the next books though. This is one of those books that im left thinking about long after I've finished it. The detail, the character growth and the amount of large life events happening in a short span of time, I just loved it. It's worth it.
3.5 stars i vibed with the first part of it and the whole apocalyptic world bit i wish it continued the whole way through. the settlement thing was not my bag like wtf was the point of having 300+ settlers and then making them disappear from plot... i didnt really like the choppy ending and idk how im gonna like the whole fallon is the chosen thing for the next book :// but i’ll try
Post-apocalyptic survival story. With magic. Fun and fast read.
Summary: With the world in chaos and survivors heading west, those immune to the sickness that decimated half the world's population and the gifted are targeted by the authorities.
Summary: With the world in chaos and survivors heading west, those immune to the sickness that decimated half the world's population and the gifted are targeted by the authorities.
I’m always hesitant about reading books by “Best-Selling” authors. But I tried to haven an open mind and, since this book had book reviews, I assume this may be a fine book.
Unless you are looking for a compendium of cheap clichés, you will be dissapointed. This is a mix of a soap opera + the walking dead (sans zombies) + general Wiccan crap. This is probably in my top-3 of the year words books and Top-10 worst books Lifetime Award®.
Suddenly there is a virus that wipes 80% of the population. The reason why seems kind of stupid (some guy kill a bird and their blood got mixed up and fell on the ground?). At the same some people start developing certain powers, making them faeries, witches, sorcerers or elves (nobody even tries to explain the difference among them). Miraculously, they know how to perform a series of quite specific rituals (purification, “magic shields”, etc.). Also, what’s the thing with the extra K in magick? I know is part of some esoteric lingo, but it’s simply annoying.
The character are shallow and unidimensional: The good guys are good because they are good, the bad ones are bad because they are bad. The main leader is someone that we know nothing about, except that he writes books. Nothing of his inner world, what he thinks, etc. The bad ones are simply bad, like, mustache twitching bad. Is that stupid. The plot twists are twist-less (and plot-less), you know exactly who the bad guys are on the second page they are introduced in the book.
BTW, there are non-white characters in this book, but as you would expect, they don’t matter. Everything is christian-ish / white-ish. Also, there is no real discussion of, you know, any religious explanation for what’s happening. Seriously? You got your faery wings and you don’t even try to explain it?
Now the dialogs: pretty much every conversation is irrelevant, boring or a combination of both. There is pretty much nothing worth knowing about the doctor visits, daily reports, discussions about laws, etc. You don’t learn anything about the characters, they don’t earn your empathy with it. The only useful information provided is who’s good and who’s bad. The dialogs between Lana and Max must be the cheesiest I’ve read in quite some time, stolen from a bad soap opera.
Something that I simply laugh at: At some point some raiders and other bad people are stealing and killing in New York City, but they leave a writing on a wall:
NEW YORK CITY IS OURS
THE RAIDERS
Seriously, what kind of misfits and psychopath would do something like that? Why not signing “The Bad Guys®” as well? Everything in this book is at that level of stupidity.
I could go on and on, but basically, this book is BAD: Bad world building, bad characters, bad plot, bad dialogs, lots of clichés. That’s it. I don’t think I’ll read another Nora book.
Unless you are looking for a compendium of cheap clichés, you will be dissapointed. This is a mix of a soap opera + the walking dead (sans zombies) + general Wiccan crap. This is probably in my top-3 of the year words books and Top-10 worst books Lifetime Award®.
Suddenly there is a virus that wipes 80% of the population. The reason why seems kind of stupid (some guy kill a bird and their blood got mixed up and fell on the ground?). At the same some people start developing certain powers, making them faeries, witches, sorcerers or elves (nobody even tries to explain the difference among them). Miraculously, they know how to perform a series of quite specific rituals (purification, “magic shields”, etc.). Also, what’s the thing with the extra K in magick? I know is part of some esoteric lingo, but it’s simply annoying.
The character are shallow and unidimensional: The good guys are good because they are good, the bad ones are bad because they are bad. The main leader is someone that we know nothing about, except that he writes books. Nothing of his inner world, what he thinks, etc. The bad ones are simply bad, like, mustache twitching bad. Is that stupid. The plot twists are twist-less (and plot-less), you know exactly who the bad guys are on the second page they are introduced in the book.
BTW, there are non-white characters in this book, but as you would expect, they don’t matter. Everything is christian-ish / white-ish. Also, there is no real discussion of, you know, any religious explanation for what’s happening. Seriously? You got your faery wings and you don’t even try to explain it?
Now the dialogs: pretty much every conversation is irrelevant, boring or a combination of both. There is pretty much nothing worth knowing about the doctor visits, daily reports, discussions about laws, etc. You don’t learn anything about the characters, they don’t earn your empathy with it. The only useful information provided is who’s good and who’s bad. The dialogs between Lana and Max must be the cheesiest I’ve read in quite some time, stolen from a bad soap opera.
Something that I simply laugh at: At some point some raiders and other bad people are stealing and killing in New York City, but they leave a writing on a wall:
NEW YORK CITY IS OURS
THE RAIDERS
Seriously, what kind of misfits and psychopath would do something like that? Why not signing “The Bad Guys®” as well? Everything in this book is at that level of stupidity.
I could go on and on, but basically, this book is BAD: Bad world building, bad characters, bad plot, bad dialogs, lots of clichés. That’s it. I don’t think I’ll read another Nora book.