It took me a while to isolate the cause: my lack of empathy with middle-class America. Nora Roberts’ accomplished writing kept me reading, in much the same way that high production standards make it easy to watch “Chicago Fire” or “Rookie Blue” but the good guys didn’t become people I cared about and the bad guys seemed more like comic-book demons than people.Ībout halfway through, I realised that, although “Year One” was entertaining enough for me to stick with it to the end, something was preventing me from immersing myself in the story. The bad guys are irredeemably evil and everyone else is either dead or consumed by fear. The good guys are clearly drawn and instantly likeable. It’s an easy to read entertainment that effortlessly manages the large number of characters and multiple initially parallel but eventually converging plot lines. As billions die, some of the immune discover latent magical powers and find themselves drawn to The Dark or The Light. It tracks the path of groups of survivors of “The Doom”, a virus which kills anyone who is not immune. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline.Year one is sort of urban fantasy twist on “The Stand”. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City.

Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river-or in the ones you know and love the most. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. The electrical grid sputtered law and government collapsed-and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them.

The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (November 2018)A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts-Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…It began on New Year's Eve. Shop Barnes & Noble Year One (Chronicles of The One Series #1) by Nora Roberts online at.

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