Genre:
Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic/Adventure/Young Adult
Description:
“It is the year 2058.
“It is the year 2058.
The
Sino-American War has decimated several generations of men, and the
Sterility Epidemic has made 90% of the surviving males sterile.
Electricity
does not function in five western states. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah,
Wyoming, and Montana are territories once again. Collectively, they
are known as the Juniper.
It is the
most dangerous place on Earth.
Cavatica
Weller and her sisters have one chance to save their family ranch--a
desperate post-apocalyptic cattle drive across a violent wasteland.
Having escaped from Denver, the Weller family will have to face the
worst of the Juniper’s outlaws, the Psycho Princess. And still an
inhuman army dogs their every step.
The mystery
deepens—who is the lost boy Micaiah and why would the richest man
on earth spend billions to find him? And will Micaiah’s secrets
tear the Weller family apart?”
Author:
“Aaron Michael Ritchey was born with Colorado thunderstorms in his soul. He's sought shelter as a world traveler, an endurance athlete, a story addict, and even gave serious thought to becoming a Roman Catholic priest. After too brief a time in Paris, he moved back to the American West and lives semi-comfortably with three forces of nature: a little, blonde hurricane, an artistic tornado, and a beautiful, beautiful blizzard.”
“Aaron Michael Ritchey was born with Colorado thunderstorms in his soul. He's sought shelter as a world traveler, an endurance athlete, a story addict, and even gave serious thought to becoming a Roman Catholic priest. After too brief a time in Paris, he moved back to the American West and lives semi-comfortably with three forces of nature: a little, blonde hurricane, an artistic tornado, and a beautiful, beautiful blizzard.”
Mr.
Ritchey’s Long Live the
Suicide King was a nominee in
BigAl’s Books and Pals 2015 Readers’ Choice Awards under the YA
category. For more information about Aaron Michael Ritchey please
visit his website.
Appraisal:
Killdeer Winds is a rip-roaring dystopian adventure, with a Wild West flair, that will have you on the edge of your seat during the whole book. Everyone’s resolve is put into question, relationships are tested, secrets are revealed, and then everyone dies. (Just kidding.) Maybe…
Killdeer Winds is a rip-roaring dystopian adventure, with a Wild West flair, that will have you on the edge of your seat during the whole book. Everyone’s resolve is put into question, relationships are tested, secrets are revealed, and then everyone dies. (Just kidding.) Maybe…
Tensions
run high as the plot twists and turns. Wild risks are taken as the
cattle drive is now being led by Cavatica, and she is only sixteen
years old. She is forced to match wits with the crazy Madelines, the
Wind River Tribe, and the Vixx Sisters’ army of biologically
altered soldiers. All while trying to come to terms with a budding
new love, that flipping New Morality Code, and family turmoil. It’s
an out of control emotional roller-coaster ride as each new battle
adds more complications.
Killdeer
Winds is not a relaxing read by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve
never read anything like this story before. It’s a thought
provoking adventure that will grab you by your throat as well as your
heart. And just as you think everything is going to work out, things
go to hell in a hand-basket. Yep, of course there is a cliffhanger
ending.
FYI:
Killdeer
Winds is book two in The
Juniper Wars series. It is
necessary to read the first in the series Dandelion
Iron.
I was given
an ARC to read before the book was published and cannot comment on
the finished book.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate
word count: 75-80,000 words
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