This book is scheduled to release from Revell publishing October 7th!! You can get the prequel to Thunder Free on Amazon Tuesday, August 5th (today)! Go HERE to get your copy!
About the Book: (from Revell publishing)
In post-apocalyptic America, Selah Chavez is crouched in long grass on a shore littered with the rusted metal remnants of a once-great city. It is the day before her eighteenth Born Remembrance, and she is hunting, though many people refuse to eat animal flesh, tainted by radiation during the Time of Sorrows. What Selah's really after are Landers, mysterious people from a land across the big water who survive the delirium-inducing passage in small boats that occasionally crash against the shoreline. She knows she should leave the capture to the men, but Landers bring a good price from the Company and are especially prized if they keep the markings they arrive with.
Everything falls to pieces when the Lander Selah catches is stolen by her brothers--and Selah wakes up the next morning to find the Lander's distinctive mark has suddenly appeared on her own flesh. Once the hunter, Selah is now one of the hunted, and she knows only one person who can help her--Bohdi Locke, the Lander her brothers hope to sell.
With evocative descriptions of a strange new world that combines elements of scientific advances, political intrigue, and wilderness survival, Bonnie S. Calhoun weaves a captivating tale of a world more like our own than we may want to admit.
My Thoughts:
“Short-term discomfort for long-term gain.” (p.316)
Selah learns her true identity
only after her actions enable her brothers to steal Bodhi Locke – her first
effective capture of a Lander. Selah’s
brothers, Cleon and Raza, follow the leadership of the only father they’ve ever
known, and begin to move immediately toward The Mountain where they will be
able to receive financial reward for Bodhi’s capture.
These actions lead to much pain
and discomfort for Selah. She discovers
that her course of action was determined long before she encounters Bodhi. The long-term gain of Selah’s short-term
discomfort becomes a conceivable vision only after traversing many dangerous
and deadly paths that lead her into the heart of a world filled with illusion
and deceit of the most evil sort.
Bonnie Calhoun has created a
dystopian society that mirrors the timeless depravity of the world we inhabit today.
She has created medical, political, physical and emotional scenes that resonate
with the trials we have all faced from time to time. Her characters must make sacrificial and
dangerous choices time and time again for their survival – and the survival of
others whom they know nothing about. All
they know for certain is that the Landers have been mercilessly hunted for
decades, and the time has come to seek their freedom.
Thunder is a book to be experienced. Traditionally, this has been a genre I’ve had
difficulty understanding and being drawn to.
However, this is a book I couldn’t put down. The characters are strong and compelling, and
the challenges they face are equally complex and intriguing! If you enjoy a book with lots of action,
danger, intrigue and uncertainty, then pick up your copy of Thunder today! You will enjoy a thrill
ride of adventure from cover to cover!
About the Author:
Bonnie S. Calhoun teaches workshops on Facebook, Twitter, HTML, and social media at writers conferences. In her everyday life she is a seamstress and clothing designer. Bonnie and her husband live in a log home in upstate New York with a dog and two cats who think she's wait staff. Thunder is her first YA novel. Learn more at www.bonniescalhoun.com.
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