Back in April I was lucky enough to review the first in the WWIV series – In The Beginning, which I have to admit saw me become a fan and left me really looking forward to getting to read the next one and finally here it is.
Kids at War is set 6 years after the ‘event’, nothing has returned to normal, resources are dwindling, if not yet completely depleted and no one really knows what caused it all, but there is rumours of nuclear leakages in the main cities.
Five teens, a young nun and five “special packages” are sent off by the militia of the Milwaukee into the farmland of south-central Wisconsin, where they are told they will be taken care of, with packages brought monthly and the help of a young strong local.
However the reality is far from it and the eleven are set for a long, hard struggle – but with the help of new found friends and a bit of determination, perhaps there is hope they can overcome the struggles and even perhaps find happiness?
This book is very different from the first; you are following a completely different set of people, on a completely different journey. I don’t feel as if I needed to have read the first one at all, although of course it gave a bit of a back story on the goings on and how the world became what it is now.
I look forward to seeing where the next WWIV journey goes next and it would perhaps be nice to find out what is going on down south where a lot of the men seem to have been sent.
Synopsis
Almost six years since an unknown event plunged the world into darkness, humanity continues to crumble. Times have worsened as the remaining fuel and valuable resources – fresh food and water – are long gone. Chances of recovery have all but disappeared; chances of survival seem grim.
In a plan so backward, so unlikely to have any success, the militia of the Milwaukee area take a young nun, five teens, and a set of five “special packages” into the barren farmland of south-central Wisconsin. There, with little more than themselves for support, they are to live, to grow, and perhaps even prosper. Or maybe the militia has just removed a problem they chose not to deal with.
With the help of new – yet strange – friends, their journey begins. But trouble finds them, even against their greatest hopes and fervent prayers. Worse, the militia has purchased help from a drunken recluse who may prove to be their greatest trouble of all.
The second book of our greatest war, our battle for survival, begins: WWIV – Kids at War.
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The Author
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I write dystopian. It’s dark, yet fun to play with.
WWIV – In The Beginning is my debut novel.
Trying to get this junk in my head, down on pages. Those pages become chapters. The chapters become a manuscript. The manuscript becomes a novel. Sounds easy enough.
I am an author and my pen name is e a lake. The e and the a mean nothing. So please just call me lake.
Not everything in dystopian writing has to be dark and dreary. I try to create post -apocalyptic situations that will challenge the reader to really believe that the events in my novels could happen.
The best part of my genre? Who needs antagonists when the landscape surrounding my protagonist is so bad. You just have to love this stuff.
My favorites are the usual list of suspects. Orwell, Bradbury, Stephen King, Vince Flynn, and James Patterson.
I’m not all that scary. Father to three, grandfather to two (three in April 2014). Just a regular guy.
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This sounds interesting I think I’ll read this and maybe the first one too