The Fire Sermon
The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new postapocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that laid waste to civilization and nature. Though...
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The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new postapocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is b
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00LD1OQQO
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: The Fire Sermon (#1)
ABR's full The Fire Sermon audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.It would seem that if you compare a new book to the Hunger Games my interest will be piqued. Maybe I am a sucker, maybe I simply yearn for another series that will completely transport me to another realit...
The Fire Sermon was an enjoyable read despite the fact I'm a bit burned out on the dystopian genre.The dystopian hook with The Fire Sermon revolves around twins. In each pair of twins there is an Alpha and an Omega. The Omega always has a genetic defect and is split off from their family and their t...
Four hundred years after the blast, a strict civilization enforces life.. based on your birth. But not by prestige or nobility, nor by birth-order... but instead by the deformities left over from the blast. For in the After, all human births are twins: one perfect - Alpha - and one imperfect - Omega...
You can find this, and other reviews, on my blog. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. What a story. I loved every second of this book.I don’t want to give too much away, but the disparity between how the Alpha and Omegas live is fascinating - the delicate balance between...
TRIGGER WARNING: Ableism, and lots of it. The society based on ableism, so it's pretty inescapable. Thankfully, the story is told from the point of view of someone who believes that ableism is wrong - otherwise the book would've been unreadable.Is The Fire Sermon post-apocalyptic or fantasy? Maybe i...