Beth
This book seems to be hit or miss. You will either love it, or loath it.
Set in the future of North America (it never specifies if what is now Canada or Mexico are part of Panem), the government rules with terror. Each district (12 left as of this book) sends one teenage boy and one teenage girl to fight in an arena for the glory of their district.
This book takes place almost immediately after The Protectors War, and deals with the consequences of decisions made by the characters in the previous book.
This book is about the ancient astronauts theory. If you don't know, it's the belief that beings from other planets visited us, and helped shape our society.
This is the story of what might have happened if a pandemic had occurred around the 1940s. This is how many people might try to survive pandemic, even today. Although some things might have happened differently, because technology has advanced since this book was published, it's still realistic to how I imagine things might work out.
This is a comedy about Armageddon according to the Bible. It is funny, but you might not think so if you don't get British humor.
This book takes place 8 or 9 years after the events of Dies the Fire. It does not actually have the war the title mentions, but the entire thing is the build-up to it.
The movie and this book have very little in common.
The book takes place in the 70s (I believe) and a pandemic has changed the world as we know it.
I honestly tried to read this book, but I couldn't do it. The plot was doing nothing for me. Bella and Edward bored me. The vampires sparkling instead of burning irritated me.
If you want to read a vampire/human romance story that works, try Anita Blake and Jean Claude.
I tried to read it. I wanted to like it. But it just didn't hold my attention. Maybe I'll try again in the future, but right now I have to abandon this one.
This is the first book in a spin-off series.
In the original trilogy, the island of Nantucket somehow gets caught up in a temporal storm and goes back in time to the bronze-age. Meanwhile, bronze-age Nantucket is sent forward to 1998.
This series started with the original trilogy (Dies the Fire, The Protector's War, and A Meeting at Corvallis). Basically, this book is about what happens in Oregon because of the temporal storm.
This is a group of short stories about what might happen to North America when Yellowstone Volcano erupts.
A nice twist on the zombie genre. I would have given it four stars, but the author really needs a proofreader.
This is the story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table, from Queen Guinevere's point of of view. The take on Merlin is especially intriguing, as is the known history from the British isles in that era.
A 20-something (or late teen, not sure which) woman is trying to survive the zombies taking over the world.
In the post-apocolyptic world of the United States northwest, a drifter trades entertainment for room and board in villages of survivors. Set nearly 20 years after WWIII (also called the Doomwar), Gordon Krantz takes shelter in a rusted out mail truck. He takes the coat to stay warm on his journey, and develops an idea. Instead of badly-reenacted Shakespeare plays, he would claim to be a mail carrier from the Restored United States.
His marks respond in a way that surprises him. They begin writing letters to family and friends that they haven't seen in nearly two decades. Gordon gives no promises, but does deliver the letters to keep up his charade. This action has a side-effect that Gordon misses, at least at first. He has given the people hope that the world is getting better.
If you have seen the movie, but have not read the book, you would be surprised. The two have very little in common. I do like the movie, but the book is so much better. And more believable.