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Name : After The Green Withered
Author : Kristin Ward
Series : After The Green Withered #1
Pages : 300 Pages
Format : Kindle Edition
Genre : Dystonia, Sci-fi, YA.
Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75
Summary :
2018 Winner of the Best Indie Book Award in young adult fiction!
They tell me the country looked different back then.
They talk of open borders and flowing rivers.
They say the world was green.
But drought swept across the globe and the United States of the past disappeared under a burning sky.
Enora Byrnes lives in the aftermath, a barren world where water has become the global currency. In a life dominated by duty to family and community, Enora is offered a role within an entity that controls everything from water credits to borders. But it becomes clear that not all is as it seems. From the wasted confines of her small town to the bowels of a hidden city, Enora will uncover buried secrets that hide an unthinkable reality.
As truth reveals the brutal face of what she has become, she must ask herself: how far will she go to retain her humanity?
Review :
It wasn’t always like thus
This tragic world
Of dust and death
But the green withered
And with it
Our dreams for the future
I have never had a book that has bought me close to tears in the prologue and this book managed to do that and I am so glad I read it.
The writing style was very easy to read and digest, it was kept simple yet descriptive and I found myself immersed in this world. I was hooked quickly and was always guessing and at the same time I was trying to figure out everything.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from the book, I mean the premise did give me some ideas but overall I was entering the book pretty blind and I am glad I did.
You are, from the very start, thrown in a world of waste and ruin and you follow 18 year old Enora after her graduation from high school and into a company, the plot follows her trying to live her life in an environment that shakes her beliefs and tests her humanity.
The plot took a very different direction from what I expected, it was well paced, though it was a little slow at the start, things were revealed when necessary and not everything was kept for the end which is something different and it worked well with the story. I will be honest, I was not anticipating the things that happened and somethings just pissed me off and that ending, that cliffhanger. THAT BLOODY CLIFFHANGER!
W H A T T H E H E L L.
Enora, was a very uncertain character, she had some ethics which when put to the test made me question everything and gave her a raw urge to do what was right, that said she did feel pretty one-dimensional at time but I did really like her
Talking about any other character than her will be spoiling things so I will not talk about them, you’ll have to read the book and meet them yourself.
With all that said, there are some critiques I have about the book. Sometimes the dialogues between the charavters seemed forced and there was a lot of small talk, even between characters that knew each other. Also somethings the change of setting felt very abrupt and this pulled me out of the story.
Overall, I quite enjoyed this book. It scared me a lot of times since this world Enora is living in could soon be ours and that is something that terrifies me a lot (but we will not get into it now). The story was intriguing enough for me to want to continue with the series and I will definitely be getting my hands on the next book in the series, I have a lot of qurstions that still need to be answered.
About the Author :
Kristin Ward has loved writing since middle school but took thirty years to do something serious about it. The result is her Best Indie Book Award-winning novel, After the Green Withered, followed by the sequel, Burden of Truth. She lives in a small town in Connecticut with her husband, three sons, and many furry and feathered friends. A Sci-Fi geek to the core, she is fueled by dark chocolate and coffee and can be heard quoting eighties movies on a regular basis.
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