Solar Fury

Shattered Sunlight, Book 1

By: E.A. Chance

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

A global solar flare strikes destroying the power grid and stranding Riley Poole in Washington, DC.

Navigating life was already no picnic for Riley, a young widowed surgeon with a teenage daughter. Now, it will take near superhuman courage to find safe harbor in a world gone mad. With the help of a brilliant but quirky cardiologist named Coop, she must conquer her fears, traverse hundreds of miles of frozen terrain, and survive hostile confrontations to get her daughter, Julia, to safety. Will she have the strength and determination to ensure they survive?

If you like fierce heroines, emotional upheaval, and heart-pounding adventure at the end of the world, then you'll love this thrilling new saga by award-winning author E.A. Chance.

©2020 E.A. Chance (P)2021 Podium Audio

Irritating but also interesting

I haven’t finished this book yet (~2 more hours left), but I don’t think anything is really going to change (there might be a cliff hanger?).

This is your typical post apocalyptic book - many people die, main characters need to survive in an urban and rural environment, and there are nasty evil humans. Battle with morality before and after event. The characters are REALLY annoying though (especially the main female character). At the beginning of the book Riley seems like this very competent, caring mother (she’s a surgeon after all), but Riley would have gotten her and her daughter killed if they hadn’t met Coop. Riley is the type of character who is way too nice for a post apocalyptic world - helps people without caution, very much against sacrificing her morality to save her family, etc - a recipe for disaster in a world with nasty, selfish humans. I wish Riley wasn’t set up to be this altruistic mother since her actions throughout the book really beg to differ. I dont want to be too hard on Riley since it can be easy to really hound on women, but Riley is incredibly self centered and childish. How can her 13 year old daughter respond to death 1000% better than her? Really infuriates me that Coop was a better parent to Julia than was Riley (hence why coop is pretty much the only reason they have survived so far). On the other hand, I do like how untraditional of a post apocalyptic heroine Riley is. I can see so many people acting like this in this scenario and I think Riley’s actions and thought process speak louder than anything - you really shouldn’t be like this in a post apocalyptic world unless you want to get you and your family killed (or worse). Something can also be said that kindness does help sometimes; sometimes saving the right people will save you in the end.

I’ve read many post apocalyptic books. This isn’t the best (the characters really do it in for me), but it isn’t the worst. Definitely glad it’s included in audible since I would be very angry that I spent money on it. Not sure if I’ll continue onto the next book… depends on what happens in the last two hours.

A very empty world

Lots of unnecessary medical blah blah blah in a world that is oddly empty at the end of the world.

Loved This Book

I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series. It was hard to put down.

SOLAR FURY BK 1

AS A LISTENER TO COUNTLESS AUDIOBOOKS IN RETIREMENT..SOLAR FURY IS 1 IN 50..OVERALL SUPERIOR IN ALL CATAGORIES..EDGE OF SEAT STUFF WITHOUT SENSELESS BLOOD OR GORE..SEX HANDLED SO JESUS WOULD APPROVE...REALALISTIC KNOWLEDGE..AUTHOR DID CORRECT IN DEPTH RESEARCH...CHARACTOR DEVELOPEMENT DONE WITHOUT TAKING AWAY FROM ACTION...CRIED MORE THAN A FEW TIMES..AND PRAYED FOR HAPPY OUTCOMES...A VERY WELL DONE MASTERAUDIOBOOK...WILL LISTEN TO ANY MORE TITLES FROM AUTHOR...

Made it about halfway

The story starts off with an interesting, and seemingly ideal character for an apocalypse. She's an experienced single mom, a surgeon, even a bit of a prepper with a bug-out bag. But it feels like the writer then went out of their way to make this character nearly useless. After 3 years single/widowed, she's immediately falling for a charming guy she just met and he "can't stop thinking about her?" Then, when disaster strikes, he's the only one capable of making sound decisions. Even in regard to parenting, though there is no mention that he has ever been a father. He's a better doctor, better prepper, has better intuition, and apparently a better parent than she is. If he "has a feeling" you know it's going to be the right one. And what's with the fact that no one ever seems to think about the other two children and wonder/worry if they are okay? The entire world has fallen into an apocalypse and the mother who worries all the time barely ever thinks about the children that are out of sight. I really tried with this book. But I was just too disappointed with the main character and the romance was just kind of bleh. The premise is good, but the character development seemed to go backward.

great

Loved it. very believable. loved all the characters
I will listen to all of them

Exciting, adventurous ups, and downs

The characters in the story are well written, intriguing, and tangled, and most of all full of hopes and dreams as they weather, through the disasters of a natural unexpected and to an era, and the beginning of a new, intensive learning journey

Good

It did start off a little slow but it did get moving as the story line went on.

Yes!!!

Really loved it intriguing and believable until finish can't wait to get the next 1

Hmm

Not to dog the author, but this woman is a surgeon. Have you met a female surgeon? I have and this one acts like a spoiled tween. Ptsd is forgetting and not remembering time days or weeks. You are on auto pilot! The scene that got me was their escape from the compound, I mean why then ? Who, in a bug out situation keeps their supplies in camp? Who does that? Who sends teens that are obviously not developed to an ice river for gallons of water? I mean at 12 &13? You know they are going to get on the ice .. Duh A male lead that takes on all that whining omg! Women don’t act like this ? I feel like we stopped the clock and went back to the 1900’s . Female surgeons don’t act like this not at all. Do you know medical school beats all that out of them with a swiftness? I get it that the bug out bag was stolen but let’s not stop at the library and get books on survival? Let’s not set up camp in a library or bowling alley and hey let’s not take all the pain meds and hollow out a notch in a door to hide them nope. We need to get home so badly we can’t stay until the kid is healed! No one hunts any deer nope this whole scenario is ridiculous. Leaving all her money for supplies when cash may be used in other parts . No bartering skills. None. No hiding supplies in a tree in a bucket. Sorry but as surgeons they act pretty childish. Let’s light a big fire and not learn how to keep one indoors with blankets over windows .. it never says what signaled the bad guys to find them. Never tells the point of view of the leader of the bad guys, come on author you need to write this over creative writing might help with the word bubbles as an organization this book could have been so much better. But the worst scene was the Hanna ice scene. Let’s lay her on the cold ground no dr would do that . Then last I knew she was stripped down then suddenly dressed she has her yellow coat on ? Narrator you did your best with the material key points are missing. Constructive criticism helps . When I put my book down on here you feel free to tear it apart. Listen to your readers. Spend time with actual female surgeons they don’t act like this. Especially ones with prep dead husbands. You can make this book better and should read the book save your ass and the army ranger field guide to survival and the anarchist cook book you need to know I would grab all the guns all the supplies and I would hide them I would build a fire in the ground fed on one side with smoke low to the ground so enemies can’t find me and I would find two big rocks to cover it when not in use . Also they could have connected ropes to the jugs to get them further into the water and wrapped the ropes around sticks to reel them in .