After the Shift: The Complete Series

By: Grace Hamilton

Narrated by: D.C. Newman

Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

In the dawn of a new Ice Age, families everywhere are taking to the road to escape the frigid landscape - but you can’t outrun the cold.

No one could have predicted the terrifying impact of human interference in the Arctic. Shifts in the Earth's crust have led to catastrophe and now the North Pole is located in the mid-Atlantic, making much of the eastern United States an unlivable polar hellscape.

Nathan Tolley is a talented mechanic who has watched his business dry up due to gas shortages following the drastic tectonic shifts. His wife Cyndi has diligently prepped food and supplies, but it’s not enough to get them through a never-ending winter. With an asthmatic young son and a new baby on the way, they’ll have to find a safe place they can call home or risk freezing to death in this harsh new world.

After the Shift: The Complete Series includes:

Freezing Point
When an old friend of Nathan’s tells him that Detroit has become a paradise, with greenhouses full of food and plenty of solar energy for everyone, it sounds like the perfect place to escape. But with dangerous conditions and roving gangs, getting there seems like an impossible dream. It also seems like their only choice.

Killing Frost
Nathan and his family are on the run from a catastrophic polar shift - but the bitter cold is the least of their worries.

Nathan was led to believe that Detroit would be the proverbial promised land, but when his family arrives they find a city struggling just to survive in the frigid conditions.

Black Ice
Losses pile up like the snowdrifts of a never-ending winter in this post-apocalyptic series conclusion.

As circumstances continue to deteriorate like the weather, Nate turns their sights south, but the past is about to catch up to them in ways none of them will see coming. And in order to embrace an uncertain future, sacrifices must be made.

Survival of the fittest gets real - fast.

This boxset contains violence, referenced sexual content, and referenced sexual violence.

©2019 Relay Publishing (P)2019 Relay Publishing

A Solid Nature Apocalypse Story

Right now, it seems like the post-apocalyptic genre is all the rage right now: either a plague has decimated humanity, or nuclear devestation has occurred-- all of it a result of humanity's short-sightedness in one way or another. This is a refreshing change in that, a natural phenomenon, plates shifting reassigning the Arctic regions of the earth, and how those in the affected area adapt.
This is a complete 3-book set which I requested from the author agreeing the review it after reading.
I enjoyed the story although I thought that the protagonist was slow to adapt to the changes (especially moral/ethical adjustments to the situations and what is required to survive).
The narration was solid and, in no way, detracted from the book.

Absolutely incredible! 5+ star!

What can I say?...Grace Hamilton has become the next big author in my opinion because her books and audiobooks are undeniably like no others! They stand out as better than any of the others, and are quite simply the best! Even though some of her topics are similar to some of the others in her genre, her books and audiobooks are better than any others in her genre, and are my absolute favorite. She has a way of putting a unique spin on things that separate hers from all the others. She’s able to put a twist on the topics, plots, characters, etc so that they don’t even come close to comparing to the others in her genre. Hers are much better! Her storylines and characters are unforgettable, and the characters are easy to relate to and understand (even the characters who you don’t personally like). The obstacles they face could very well be real in the situations she presents in her books/audiobooks. Her descriptions and explanations are so lifelike and believable. I can’t even begin to praise her enough! You don’t want to miss out on her books/audiobooks because you definitely won’t be disappointed! Her books/audiobooks are worth the money/credit, so do yourself a favor, look through them, and make sure to get some because you’re definitely missing out if you don’t. She has fantastic narration too, so they’re altogether just amazing!

Great Series

It was really great. I loved it all the way to the end. I look forward to reading or listening to the next ones.

All action, little prepping

This is a stereotypical, highly contrived, all-action, post-apocalyptic story about a small group of people experiencing one miraculous escape after another. There's good character development, but virtually nothing about day-to-day survival. There are plenty of unreasonable and unrealistic decisions, though.

D.C. Newman performed well. I heard only a few mispronunciations.

NOTE: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Good read

It was just ok for a long read. But you can almost predict every scene set up in advance. How much trouble can 1 man bring. To redundant.

Uncertain...

I'm usually a fan of purchasing box sets, you get more bang for your buck and it only makes sense. I feel like this set would be best if purchased over a period of time. The main storyline is exciting and entertaining but there are quite a few "fillers" that made me not-so interested at times. I'm still uncertain about my exact feelings. I'm only about halfway through, I'll certainly give a full review as I finish up in order to provide a fair opinion

*This audiobook was provided to me at no cost in exchange for my unbiased review.

monotone narrarator

could have been alot more exciting with the right narrarator. he didn't put much effort or emotion into the read. seemed extremely monotone to me.

A must listen to book!

What a well written and really well narrated book. Awesome book to listen too. Great job too the author and narrator of this book series!
I hated to see it come to an end!

Good Story

All three books were written well. The narrator was able to hold my attention through all three books. I cried, I smiled, and I enjoyed tagging along on their journey!

Entertaining but tedious and a bit contrived.

I bought this because I could get the whole set of 25 hrs for the price of one. And I wanted to have a book going in my earbuds on a days long construction project. The story was entertaining and helped pass the time.

It was kind of an odyssey that kept going, with a predictable cycle. Good guys just want to survive through a permanent natural disaster. But bad guys want to steal from you and enslave you. There’s always a bad guy who takes your resistance personally and is so insulted that he will chase you thousands of miles to take revenge. OK. That’s fine. But a flying saucer alien Nazi religious cult taking you as a slave because of your Aryan blood, and letting all your mongrel race friends loose? No. You lost me there.

And every time you get captured it’s because you let your guard down (again!), and you’ll never escape it this time. Unless an earthquake shakes your building, or unless the roof falls in.

But, even though the bad guy wants to kill all your families, you still won’t kill him because “you are not a murderer! You are better than them.” So you let them live to attack you again next time.

As I say, I was entertained, but without having to think much. It’s worth the $13 but only for one listen. Never again.