The Complete Dark Days Series

By: Ryan Schow

Narrated by: Kevin Pierce

Length: 38 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

USA Today best-selling author and Amazon all-star award winner

While foreign forces occupy America, pockets of ordinary citizens gather together to resist.

Can a ragtag group of determined people survive the takeover?

Logan Cahill, Skylar Madigan, and Harper Whitaker are part of a growing underground effort to reclaim occupied America. But when Logan is alerted to a cryptic message in the world’s largest server room, the doomsday clock begins.

Logan knows the enemies, the weapons, and the time of the country's death sentence, right down to the minute. If he and his newfound friends want to survive the apocalypse, they’ll have to bug out fast and head north to the southern Oregon town of Five Falls.

With no power, no heat, and a total grid collapse, tough times keep getting tougher. But when America is struck with an EMP, this small group of survivors will be forced out of the frying pan and into the fire. Only there can they fight for their homes, their families, their community, and their right to be free from the restraints of an oppressive world force.

But will they all survive? Will America survive? Could you survive?

This intense new tale of strength, survival, and patriotism puts ordinary citizens and preppers on the front line of a domestic conflict that was never supposed to happen, one that will either unify the country or break her for good.

*Contains scenes of violence and adult content consistent with a full-scale societal collapse, foreign occupation, and a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

©2020 Ryan Schow (P)2023 Ryan Schow

Fast pace and impossible to put down.

I never leave reviews but this was Very well done. I can’t wait to read more books by Ryan Schow

Moments of laughter in the pit of warfare.

The camaraderie that the character developed throughout all books hardened me and gave me a sense of momentary happiness as everyone struggled to survive and overcome the horrors and brutalities of war.

Good writting, well narrated, storyline impossible

I give Ryan Schow credit for an imaginative setting for this story, unique from most apocalyptic fiction. And it could, in some future world, be a realistic plot. Ryan Schow's writing style is easy to read, clear, crisp and well composed. Most characters could be realistic, albeit a bit simplistic. But there is no way on God's green earth that these characters could possibly survive 90% of the physical and situational abuse, damage and torture that several of them are subjected to over and over and over again. Not to mention the battles that they fought with 1 against 100's, and still succeed.
Still, the writing is sufficient to carry these supernatural characters through the book as long as the reader sets aside a big chunk of reality. It's also much assisted by Kevin Pierce's wonderful narration.
I read all 5 books. Not sure I will attempt any more of this author's books, though. It requires so much work to stretch my imagination to accept what is happening, that I find myself balking frequently and needing to talk myself into accepting this as reality. I became distracted throughout the entire read.

Pretty good.

Pretty good listen. Especially for the length you receive. Good characters and of course great narration by Kevin!

One of the worst BUT if you know this going in...

My favorites of the genre are by Mark Goodwin and Frank Horton. The quality of writing here is far removed from such as well as the frequent pubescent level dialogs that make this otherwise believable and entertaining story painful to listen to. It has a conservative bent at least as far as politics though a bit overdone with casual sex and torture. I almost stopped the book after an hour or two. I am midway into the book and am disappointed that the book is so dumbed down. The saving grace is the plot, some of the less cringy humor and the unique approach to the topic...insomuch as it isn't so prepper heavy in detail.

Characters are idiots

It’s sad when every character thinks and says they would do the correct response but when the act the do the stupidest thing they could do. I wish the author had at least one character that had their act together and made good decisions. The story is depressing, because everyone makes bad choices .

Good character development. In story line

Way too long. Redundancies in communications within the story line. Defining the humanism felt forced and unnecessary.

Great story, well told

This is a realistic tale with lots of girl power. It has a plausible core and well-written narrative which is expertly acted out by our favorite narrator. Very entertaining & worth your time.

Absolutely fantastic

Fast moving and always interesting. Kept me wanting to get back to the story at all times.

Just a tad too much.

The underlying story is good; however, I struggled to finish this series due to the unnecessarily vile and disturbing details weaved throughout. There were so many areas were a little less would have made the story more....