Title: Apocalypse 5
By: Stacey Rourke
Published by: Black Spot Books
Published: February 12, 2019
Edited by: Lindy Ryan
Cover by: Najla Qamber Designs
The end of the world is coming. How or when, scientists can't agree upon. For decades, Earth's best line of defense has been a team of young soldiers known as the Apocalypse Five, forced into virtual reality simulations to train for Doom's Day. But, this is no game. Death on the grid is brutally final and calls up the next in a long line of cadets. Stationed aboard the AT-1-NS Starship, the A5 are celebrities thrust into the limelight by a calling they didn't choose. All it takes is one unscheduled mission, showing seventeen-year-old team leader Detroit a harsh and unfathomable reality, to shake the A5's belief in all they thought they knew. After questioning people with the power to destroy them, the team is framed for a crime they didn't commit and marked for death. Now, the hunt is on. Can the Apocalypse Five expose the truth the starship would kill to keep hidden? Or, will their bravery end in a public execution?
~~~REVIEW~~~
While in the vein of Hunger Games and Ender’s Game, Apocalypse 5, forges a new path into this trope. Rourke lends her classic snark and badassery to her foray into this genre. This young adult science fiction dystopian novel is unrelenting war and carnage from page one. Chapter One left me shocked and terrified to continue.
The reader plunges off the cliff and into the drama of a post-apocalyptic Earth with a young A5 team literally blasting into a mission. What the A5ers think is just a simulation program turns out to be so much more than they ever could have imagined. Finding out that nothing is as they were taught to believe, the five person team, led by the seventeen-year-old kick-ass heroine, Detriot, find themselves in a dire situation teaming up with the very people they have unknowingly been fighting against.
Rourke has once again created characters that the reader cannot help but champion behind. I love that the women in this story are strong, fearless, empowered badasses; whom the men respect and support!
This tale invokes the gamut of emotions from crying over the loss of team members to saluting Detriot when she makes a moving speech after a tough battle. The reader cannot help but to feel the losses and celebrate the victories.
As always Rourke has blown me away with her work and I cannot wait to read the next installment in the engrossing saga.
~Lynn
5 Stars
The reader plunges off the cliff and into the drama of a post-apocalyptic Earth with a young A5 team literally blasting into a mission. What the A5ers think is just a simulation program turns out to be so much more than they ever could have imagined. Finding out that nothing is as they were taught to believe, the five person team, led by the seventeen-year-old kick-ass heroine, Detriot, find themselves in a dire situation teaming up with the very people they have unknowingly been fighting against.
Rourke has once again created characters that the reader cannot help but champion behind. I love that the women in this story are strong, fearless, empowered badasses; whom the men respect and support!
This tale invokes the gamut of emotions from crying over the loss of team members to saluting Detriot when she makes a moving speech after a tough battle. The reader cannot help but to feel the losses and celebrate the victories.
As always Rourke has blown me away with her work and I cannot wait to read the next installment in the engrossing saga.
~Lynn
5 Stars
Meet the Author
Stacey Rourke is the multi award-winning author of works that span genres, but possess the same flare for action and snarky humor. She lives in Florida with her husband, two beautiful daughters, and two giant dogs. Stacey loves to travel, has an unhealthy shoe addiction, and considers herself blessed to make a career out of talking to the imaginary people that live in her head.
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