Thursday, February 7, 2019

The Line Between by Tosca Lee

It's the end of the world as we know it and the cult leaders were right!

Tosca Lee sets off on an accelerated ride through the breakdown of American society but she does it through the eyes of a former cultist.

Wynter Roth, along with her mother, joined The New Earth community. Through flash-back chapters you'll learn more of that backstory and why she's out in the real world - which happens to be coming loose at the seems.

This is an interesting approach to the apocalyptic genre - driving stolen, abandoned vehicles, avoiding shady-looking garage clerks, finding hideouts; all while delivering a possible cure?

Is this going to be like The Walking Dead with big surprises? Will there be an easy cop-out ending?
This book delivers!

I thought Lee did a good job keeping the characters interesting and growing on us while they journey through the not-so-quite wasteland. Wynter's experiences after being in an exclusive and her reactions to life outside, even when they are going nuts, was a nice twist to read.

I wasn't thrilled with the constant use of bad language. I treat stuff like that as I do sex in entertainment: do we really need to see/read it? Does it truly add anything to the story/experience by including it?

Perhaps for some it makes it more realistic? But I guess I'm not one of those people.

I thought the book had a great pace. I didn't get bored reading about Wynter and, when she meets him, Chase as they drove west together. It could have gotten really slow at those points but Lee kept the tension and pace flowing.

This book was provided, at no cost, by Howard Books.

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