Author: KC Luck
Genre: Action / Adventure / Survival 🌶️
Tropes: Dystopian / Apocalypse, Second Chance, Straight to Sapphic
Series: The Darkness #1
Pages: 306
Published: July 2nd, 2018
Format: ebook (KU)
Started: 09-23-2024
Finished: 09-27-2024
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synopsis
If the lights go out forever, can love survive?
When four women from different walks of life are brought together by fate to witness the end of the world as they know it, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as learn to rely on each other.
Jackie Scott wields incredible influence as a magazine executive in Seattle. As she plans a smashing party for her fortieth birthday, everything is precisely as she wants it. But when a solar storm lights up the night sky in a dazzling display, it not only ruins the party but destroys power around the planet and Jackie must turn for help from the one woman she has tried so hard not to want…Taylor.
Taylor Barnes is an Army veteran new to Seattle and wants nothing more than to find some peace and quiet working as a rent-a-cop in a corporate high-rise. When she is asked to attend the birthday party of the building’s powerful and sexy CEO, she can hardly say no. Little did she realize every skill she ever learned would be put to the test to save the woman she can’t seem to stop thinking about…Jackie.
Anna Patten is a nurse practitioner who has returned one last time to the town she ran away from to pack up the house where she grew up. Trying to avoid any drama, she cannot get away fast enough, or so she tells herself while her heart wonders about her high school crush. When fate lands them together in Seattle at a birthday party, suddenly Anna must lean on the woman she once left behind…Lexi.
Lexi Scott has built a simple life of writing novels and remodeling her farmhouse, but when she runs into a long-lost friend, her world is turned upside down. It’s not until she attends her sister Jackie’s birthday party that she is forced to not only face the apocalypse but now she must decide if she is willing to risk her heart again to save the only woman she ever loved…Anna.
The end of the world is only the beginning.
rant
- Its kinda crazy how I can think that this book is objectively bad and cliche but still not be able to put it down lmao
- I feel like it had to do w/ the fast pace and the short chapters it makes you feel like you’re flying through the book
- There’s 4 different characters and 4 different POV’s which felt overwhelming @ points, especially during the actiony scenes ‐ You only spend like a page or two per chapter per character
- Bc there are so many characters to juggle it doesn’t feel like we get that much from any of them & their character / personal developments happen too quickly to feel genuine ‐ for example, Anna and Lexi getting back together right away after not seeing each other for 25 years w/ basically no discussion beforehand felt weird to me ‐ basically the pacing was off in the romance part of this & I personally would’ve liked more angst there but she saved all of that for Taylor and Jackie
- I really really liked the overall concept of this ‐ the author’s writing style was captivating and she did a good job w/ the world building
- I’m not sure if I would read this again but I will continue reading this series ‐ it’s definitely going on the back burner tho
noted & quoted
- Alice joining the gang
- Saving Joe
- Taylor & Jackie’s kiss on her birthday
- Lexi and Taylor becoming friends
