Solar Plexus: Publisher's Pack

Solar Plexus, Books 1 & 2

De: Victor Zugg

Narrado por: Sean Runnette

Contains Solar Plexus and Near Total Eclipse, books one and two in the Solar Plexus series.

Solar Plexus, book 1:

Imagine traveling through a world determined to stop you.

A massive solar storm induced EMP of apocalyptic proportions knocks out power and fries circuits for most of the planet. Transportation, communications, and constraints on human nature are gone. Within hours, store shelves are empty; gangs and desperate people with guns rampage. Survival for those ill-equipped and unprepared will be short-lived. This will be the new normal for many months, possibly years.

Tiffany Conway sets out alone from Florida to join her parents in Ohio. She's young, strong, armed, and, with a Marine Corps background, skilled. She'll walk the entire distance if necessary.

Sam Pratt and Chet Evans, best friends and business partners, are luckier than most. Retired from the military, they too have skills. But they have something more — a running vehicle. With it, they set out from central Florida heading for the safety of Sam's cabin in the sparsely populated foothills of Tennessee.

With society crumbling, will they make it in one piece? Will they make it at all?

Near Total Eclipse, book 2:

Finding the resources needed to survive will be tough. Holding on to those resources will be tougher.

Three weeks after the mother of all solar storms, power is out, communications are down, and transportation is mostly non-existent. Fear and panic run rampant. Resources run scarce. Looting, rioting, and general mayhem advance as the dark side of humanity takes hold.

Retired Air Force Major Sam Pratt, along with his best friend, Chet Stevens, their recent traveling companion, Tiffany Conway, and her parents double down on their plan to wait out the apocalypse at Sam’s cabin in the foothills of Tennessee. Food is the first order of business. They’ll need plenty to survive the two years or more they expect it will take for the lights to return. Should Sam and his friends make do with what the land provides, or claim their fair share of what food remains?

Security is the second order of business. To defend against an expected onslaught of hungry people, Sam and his cadre form an alliance with the nearby town of Townsend. The population is small, manageable, and led by a select few with military experience. They anticipate no shortage of marauders willing to kill for what the town has. And Townsend, Tennessee, with its access to fresh water and miles of remote forest teeming with game and fish, is prime real estate for seemingly everyone with a gun. Sam and his friends have a decision to make. Stand and fight with the town, fall back to the cabin, or fade into the mountains?

Decisions have consequences, and mistakes are often counted with lost lives. Is survival in this post-apocalyptic world even feasible?

©2018 Victor Zugg (P)2020 Podium Audio

Book was good until…

Until they the plot armor kept them alive. Also pissed me off how smart they are and how stupid of mistakes they kept making. Stopped listening a few times but I couldn’t keep going to book 2

Interesting survival story.

Based on the title, I thought this would be a sci-fi story but it’s really a post-apocalypse survival story with *lots* of gun violence. It is however a compelling and well told story and thus I gave it 4 stars.
The NRA is flooding the U.S. with guns and this is a good story of what life would be like when social order breaks down and everyone starts using all those NRA provided automatic guns - people gone wild shooting everyone else just to get their hands on some food.

Struggle

I did like the main characters. The story was very interesting.
A little different from the normal EMP story. I would recommend this book series.

Great Story, Dark Tale

Very well written. The only thing I didn’t like was that the ending was a little open ended. Not sure if there is another book coming or if the author thought the story was complete. It felt complete, but I wish there was a summary with a little more resolution.

A good series

The series is good - a very good storyline with modest character development. William R. Forstchen wrote a trilogy with a similar storyline, and it is far superior.

Good characters

Wish it had a better ending. It just sort of stopped all of a sudden.

Meh

The idea was better than the execution. Book 1 started strong then fizzled and book 2 picked up with the fizzle. Not much survival and mostly gun play.

Was expecting better

the book started our fairly well but then went down hill. For an EOTW book it seemed to be written from a liberal point of view. Help others, when you take things you need and let the bad people go only to let it bite you in the ass in the long run. It had the potential to be a great book but fell short.

Good story

This was a good story and performance. I didn’t like the actions of the main characters. They are supposed to be military veterans with security expertise. Yet they left enemy combatants live and later were attacked by them. That’s not a military mindset or plausible. The survival part of the story was enjoyable if you like apocalyptic fiction.

extremely repetitive

This book became hard to finish. it literally was survival battle after survival battle with not a lot of other meat in between. They were either fighting for food and other survival requirements or battle planning to manage scarce resources. it's just that there was nothing else to the story but that. We learn a few pertinent facts about some of the main characters, but very little. I just felt like it was a huge waste of time and kept waiting for the story and the characters to develop.