Through Many Fires Strengthen What Remains Book 1 eBook Kyle Pratt Micah Hansen
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Terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Union Address.
Army veteran and congressional staffer Caden Westmore is in nearby Bethesda and watches as a mushroom cloud grows over the capital. The next day, as he drives away from the still burning city, he learns that another city has been destroyed and then another.
America is under siege. Panic ensues and society starts to unravel. Now Caden must find his fiancée and the way home to his family across the devastated nation.
Through Many Fires is the first book of the bestselling post-apocalyptic Strengthen What Remains series.
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Through Many Fires Strengthen What Remains Book 1 eBook Kyle Pratt Micah Hansen
Through Many Fires: Strengthen what Remains is a pretty good collapse of civilization yarn. It's a 3.5 star book but there are no ".5" ratings in the Amazon reviewing system and a couple of glaring typos and editorial shortcomings shift it into the 3 star side of the equation. Kyle Pratt has a handful of self-published speculative novels including two that are pure science fiction. Science fiction writers usually produce the best apocalyptic themed books as long as you are willing to suspend reality enough to make room for zombies, mutants, space aliens, talking animals, time warps or whatever else gets into the mix. But Kyle takes a more realistic approach here. Through Many Fires is grounded in a plausible reality resembling many of the TEOTWAWKI books leaking out of the on-line prepper self-publishing sub-culture. The nuclear attack and resulting social chaos is entirely plausible and there is a dystopian touch to the government response. But this is not "prepper porn" like a John Wesley Rawles novel, it's just a straight story about the effects of such a disaster on America, particularly a small community near Olympia, Washington. As a former resident of Tacoma and Fort Lewis, WA, I was intrigued by how that was depicted. Kyle Pratt's story is about a group of clean cut, all-American types coming to grips with a national collapse and thoroughly conflicted by the two recovery visions offered to them by the Washington State government of Governor Monroe and the surviving federal government, led by self-appointed President Durant and his Chinese allies (Apparently all of Washington state's liberals, tattooed hipsters and pothead ex-hippies were consumed in the Seattle nuclear conflagration). I admit I couldn't relate to the Boy Scout-like hero, Major Caden Westmore. The military aspects of the story aren't bad but a few glaring errors (like Turner's polished boots) did put me off a bit (I am a vet, after all). If you are going to go with realism ya gotta go all the way in the research department (elite Chinese troops don't use AK-47s -- this ain't 1972 -- they have better stuff these days like the QBZ-95). Kyle Pratt is a good writer and a brilliant social media marketer for his books. This is a better than average self-published work but it could have benefitted from a professional editing job. Seeing Los Angeles misspelled several times (Los Angles) made me cringe. And like that apocalyptic soap opera called The Walking Dead, the book is more about the relationships between the people, their dramas and their feelings than a good suspense-thriller. Again, an editor could have helped with the pacing. The focus on dialogue means there is little in the way of atmosphere or descriptive prose. Everything feels clean and clichéd. Even the nuclear bomb explosions lack drama. But if you are like me, and you simply love exploring TEOTWAWKI scenarios and the different visions for our nation's calamitous future, then this one is worth a look. Overall assessment: Not bad; safe for teenagers and people who don't need vulgarity to "make it feel more real."Product details
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Through Many Fires Strengthen What Remains Book 1 eBook Kyle Pratt Micah Hansen Reviews
Through Many Fires is a solid adventure read. The decapitation of American leadership by an attack at the State of the Union address has been used before (Tom Clancy), but the description was plausible (a nuke in the general vicinity would suffice) and was an effective way of jump-starting the narrative. And I liked how the focus was less on the precipitating acts and more on the aftermath. Personally, I'm hoping the book doesn't carry a veneer of foreshadowing. Since our society is so specialized and interconnected, it wouldn't take much to cause things to unravel. I recall reading somewhere that, thanks to just-in-time delivery schedules, there's a 3 day supply of food in the grocery pipeline. It wouldn't take much disruption to have a lot of hungry people in a very short period of time. And when that happens, Katy bar the door. I don't think it would necessarily take a series of small nukes in metropolitan areas. Heck, the collapse of our economic system (which increasingly seems held together with duct tape and collective wishful thinking) would more than suffice. The use of a major national trauma to throttle liberties and expand surveillance is something that has regrettable historical precedent. And would regions of the country start to schism from the Union after such stresses? That's a scenario straight out of the James Howard Kunstler playbook.
Pratt wisely realizes that you don't have a story if you don't have characters you can get invested in. There is a certain randomness to the assemblage of his characters, but I say that as a compliment. Life will throw people together in unforseen combinations and there is a logical consistency to everything that happens. Pratt's characters are likable and have virtues and faults that we can all relate to. The protagonist being a Senatorial military aide (and ex-Special forces) is probably a necessary conceit in this genre. Had Pratt chosen his hero to be a pot-bellied mortgage refinance salesman, there probably would have been a pretty short story arc (with slim to no chances of a sequel).
A minor quibble with the geopolitics - if Caden Westbrook can puzzle together the responsible alliance on the fly from newspaper clippings and some official papers, surely others know as well. Some of the nuclear attack cells were thwarted before detonation, so you have to assume they are being 'vigorously' interrogated as well. Is this being suppressed by the Durant administration? They would certainly seem to have a vested interest in doing so, but given the sieve-like nature of the intelligence community lately, leaks of information that explosive are inevitable. I'm hoping to learn more in the sequel (which hopefully Pratt will commence working on after taking a well deserved rest).
Through Many Fires Strengthen what Remains is a pretty good collapse of civilization yarn. It's a 3.5 star book but there are no ".5" ratings in the reviewing system and a couple of glaring typos and editorial shortcomings shift it into the 3 star side of the equation. Kyle Pratt has a handful of self-published speculative novels including two that are pure science fiction. Science fiction writers usually produce the best apocalyptic themed books as long as you are willing to suspend reality enough to make room for zombies, mutants, space aliens, talking animals, time warps or whatever else gets into the mix. But Kyle takes a more realistic approach here. Through Many Fires is grounded in a plausible reality resembling many of the TEOTWAWKI books leaking out of the on-line prepper self-publishing sub-culture. The nuclear attack and resulting social chaos is entirely plausible and there is a dystopian touch to the government response. But this is not "prepper porn" like a John Wesley Rawles novel, it's just a straight story about the effects of such a disaster on America, particularly a small community near Olympia, Washington. As a former resident of Tacoma and Fort Lewis, WA, I was intrigued by how that was depicted. Kyle Pratt's story is about a group of clean cut, all-American types coming to grips with a national collapse and thoroughly conflicted by the two recovery visions offered to them by the Washington State government of Governor Monroe and the surviving federal government, led by self-appointed President Durant and his Chinese allies (Apparently all of Washington state's liberals, tattooed hipsters and pothead ex-hippies were consumed in the Seattle nuclear conflagration). I admit I couldn't relate to the Boy Scout-like hero, Major Caden Westmore. The military aspects of the story aren't bad but a few glaring errors (like Turner's polished boots) did put me off a bit (I am a vet, after all). If you are going to go with realism ya gotta go all the way in the research department (elite Chinese troops don't use AK-47s -- this ain't 1972 -- they have better stuff these days like the QBZ-95). Kyle Pratt is a good writer and a brilliant social media marketer for his books. This is a better than average self-published work but it could have benefitted from a professional editing job. Seeing Los Angeles misspelled several times (Los Angles) made me cringe. And like that apocalyptic soap opera called The Walking Dead, the book is more about the relationships between the people, their dramas and their feelings than a good suspense-thriller. Again, an editor could have helped with the pacing. The focus on dialogue means there is little in the way of atmosphere or descriptive prose. Everything feels clean and clichéd. Even the nuclear bomb explosions lack drama. But if you are like me, and you simply love exploring TEOTWAWKI scenarios and the different visions for our nation's calamitous future, then this one is worth a look. Overall assessment Not bad; safe for teenagers and people who don't need vulgarity to "make it feel more real."
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