Thunder (Stone Braide Chronicles, #1)

Posted on 26 June 2017 by Bonnie S. Calhoun

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 like our own than we may want to admit. 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Calhoun – kino-fada.fr This review is hard for me to write as there are extremely few books I ve read that I would completely not recommend, and I dislike writing negative reviews Honestly, I didn t even finish this book and I can t remember a time when I ve done so purposefully, instead of not finishing a book due to lack of time I tried to read the whole book, I truly did, but gave up about 268 pages into it.I enjoy reading some dystopian books and when I saw a ...3.5 stars Okay, so I m going to do this review a little differently than I normally do because this book was kind of hard for me to rate Characters One of my favorites from the whole book was Amaryllis _ I know, not who you would probably think, but I just really liked her She definitely reminded me of Rue from the Hunger Games 1 They are about the same age of course I think they were both 12 years old 2 They both were sneaky and good at hiding from bad guys in the forest and trees 3 3.5 stars Okay, so I m going to do this review a little differently than I normally do because this book was kind of hard for me to rate Characters One of my favorites from the whole book was Amaryllis _ I know, not who you would probably think, but I just really liked her She definitely reminded me of Rue from the Hunger Games 1 They are about the same age of course I think they were both 12 years old 2 They both were sneaky and good at hiding from bad guys in the forest and trees 3 Kind of a spoiler so skip over the rest of this paragraph if you want They both got injured it was in different ways, but I had a feeling that Amaryllis was going to die like RueThankfully that wasn t the case though, because I really liked her _ I really did not like any of the characters that were up in the mountain I mean I guess Stemple was better than Everling and Bethany, but something didn t feel right about him And Everling I knew I wouldn t like him He was a wacko pre...I m not sure of my thoughts on this one I really loved the characters and the premise, but there were some writing inconsistencies with it that bothered me.Selah Rishon Chavez is almost eighteen and hiding, waiting for a boat to crash ashore with a Lander These Landers come from across the ocean, no one really knows where They were sold for a great price, if they kept their markings on their foreheads Everything falls apart after Selah s brothers take the Lander she caught The next morning I m not sure of my thoughts on this one I r...This is a book I actually put off writing a review for and hopefully I can explain why in the following What was so unusual about this book is that one moment I really, really liked it and then another moment I d find myself thinking, What the heck did I just read There were moments when I felt the book was really good, and then it would go downhill for a couple chapters and then pick back up again I guess what confused me the most was that there were a lot of plot elements I wasn t expecti This is a book I actually put off writing a review for and hopefully I can explain why in the following What was so unusual about this book is that one moment I really, really liked it and then another moment I d find myself thinking, What the heck did I just read There were moments when I felt the book was really good, and then it would go downhill for a couple chapters and then pick back up again I guess what confused me the most was that there were a lot of plot elements I wasn t expecting despite the whole weird symbol a...Though I like the writing style and plot, this book doesn t do it for me I love Selah somewhat and the little girl But the other characters just fall flat for me I also don t like some of the relationship aspects or views on relationships that are displayed here without a proper balance The whole thing kinda felt directionless and that was a big problem for me I wasn t compelled to pick up the next books, though a part of me was so hoping to like itbecause again, I loved the conce Though I like the writing style and plot, this book doesn t do it for me I love Selah somewhat and the little girl But the other characters just fall flat for me I also don t like some of the relationship aspects or views on relationships that are displayed here without a proper balance The whole thing kinda felt directionless and that was a ...When I saw that Revell had a dystopian coming out, I was really excited I love speculative fiction and thought that the premise sounded interesting While I am still glad that Revell has branched out into this speculative genre, I am rather disappointed with Thunder.Selah is a girl who demands to be treated like an adult However, she doesn t act like one What might have been a great character development just made her unlikeable when she never even tried to behave as an adult and take respon When I saw that Revell had a dystopian coming out, I was really excited I love speculative fiction and thought that the premise sounded interesting While I am still glad that Revell has branched out into this speculative genre, I am rather disappointed with Thunder.Selah is a girl who demands to be treated like an adult However, she doesn t act like one What might have been a great character development just made her unlikeable when she never even tried to behave as an adult and take responsibility for her childish behavior I ll give her that her mother hardly prepared her for adulthood I would say that her mother downright made Selah a spoiled and out of touch person It is the only way one can explain that Selah ...Inspiration came from several current eventsbut I can t tell you which onesbecause it s the secret to the series In the first book, Thunder, you will get the set up and flavor of this society, and the mystery will start to unwind You meet the main players and a few of the despicable characters that send the story forward opening up a Pandora s box of questions and causes.The challenging aspects of writing futuristicis the future You re basically second guessing time How will things Inspiration came from several current eventsbut I can t tell you which onesbecause it s the secret to the series In the first book, Thunder, you will get the set up and flavor of this society, and the mystery will start to unwind You meet the main players and a few of the despicable characters that send the story forward opening up a Pandora s box of questions and causes.The challenging aspects of writing futuristicis the future You re basically second guessing time How will things look How will people act, or speak What technological advances or retreats Society as a wholewhat will it be like And when you add into that several natural disasters to change the ecological landscapewell it winds up being a lot of what if s An interesting way to start is go back to the 40 s or 50 s and look at the stuff that they predicted would happen or the modern conveniences that they touted as the wave of the future.Imaginati...Smashing plot fast paced and complex with rising tempo toward a satisfying climax Post apocalyptic future based on realistic projections of both disasters and saved, renewed technologies from an American culture plausibly in our near future A flawed main character who the reader comes to care about Good character development through the first and second tiers of the cast Ambiguous and conflicting motives Interesting genetic variations among human groups She brings the first volume to a sa Smashing plot fast paced and complex with rising tempo toward a satisfying climax Post apocalyptic future based on realistic projections of both disasters and saved, renewed technologies from an American culture plausibly in our near future A flawed main character who the reader comes to care about Good character development through the first and second tiers of the cast Ambiguous and con...One hundred fifty years have passed since the Sorrows, and Selah Rishon Chavez is hunting She s hunting rabbits that her father and brothers refuse to eat due to mutations caused from the fallout of the Sorrows and which she and her mother enjoy But she s really hunting Landers, the mysterious people that arrive on the shore in small boats and have distinctive markings on their faces Selah knows that if a Lander keeps the mark, then the bounty is worthOn this day before her 18th Birth One hundred fifty years have passed since the Sorrows, and Selah Rishon Chavez is hunting She s hunting rabbits that her father and brothers refuse to...3.5 ugh, this book could have been so great, and it was at times, but Selah, SELAH, STAND UP AND WOMAN UP OH MY GOSH, SHE JUST UUUGHHH, Throughout the book I was hoping she would start to be stronger but noooo, she remained a weak girl who relies on her Bodie or how ever u spell it and then we have the violence, Bonnie S Calhoun casually writes a child s head getting split open like ew, towards the end it was getting pretty violent, and it was pointless like whyyyyyyy and then the romance 3.5 ugh, this book could have been so great, and it was at times, but Selah, SELAH, STAND UP AND WOMAN UP OH MY GOSH, SHE JUST UUUGHHH, Throughout the book I was hoping she would start to be stronger but noooo, she remained a weak girl who relies on her Bodie or how ever u spell it and then we have the violence, Bonnie S Calhoun casually writes a child s head getting split open lik...

26 June 2017

Bonnie S. Calhoun