Thunder: Stone Braide Chronicles #1 {Book Review}

Thunder: Stone Braide Chronicles #1 {Book Review}

Whether you’re a fan of Young Adult fiction, sci-fi, or works about post-apocalyptic worlds, the book Thunder: Stone Braide Chronicles #1 by Bonnie Calhoun is definitely worth your time to read. The book hits on a few notes for everyone between magical powers, immortal beings, elite and working classes, romance, you name it.

In post-apocalyptic America, Selah Chavez is crouched in long grass on a shore littered with the rusted metal remnants of a once-great city. It is the day before her eighteenth Born Remembrance, and she is hunting, though many people refuse to eat animal flesh, tainted by radiation during the Time of Sorrows. What Selah’s really after are Landers, mysterious people from a land across the big water who survive the delirium-inducing passage in small boats that occasionally crash against the shoreline. She knows she should leave the capture to the men, but Landers bring a good price from the Company and are especially prized if they keep the markings they arrive with.

Everything falls to pieces when the Lander Selah catches is stolen by her brothers–and Selah wakes up the next morning to find the Lander’s distinctive mark has suddenly appeared on her own flesh. Once the hunter, Selah is now one of the hunted, and she knows only one person who can help her–Bohdi Locke, the Lander her brothers hope to sell.

With evocative descriptions of a strange new world that combines elements of scientific advances, political intrigue, and wilderness survival, Bonnie S. Calhoun weaves a captivating tale of a world more like our own than we may want to admit.

 

You would think after world-wide mass destruction, folks would come together and do their best to survive, right? I would, but, I also know human nature may quickly overrule level headed thinking, much like it does in this book.

Readers watch young Selah, who is desperate to prove her worth to her father, decide to capture a “Lander” (also known as an Immortal) which will bring her a large price and definitely recognition when she turns him into the Mountain people.

After this plan goes awry, circumstances dictate that she ends up fleeing with her one time prisoner so she can learn more about herself and these Landers.

I won’t give away too many plot points since I’m hoping you will read it. But I can tell you that I found several similarities with a few other well known Young Adult novels that include hunting/nature skills, upper and lower classes, select few who rule the masses, and politics being the name of the game.

And definitely keep an eye out for the second book in the series so we can follow the characters into the next part of their adventure!

Learn more and purchase a copy of Thunder: Stone Braide Chronicles #1 at Amazon.

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