Title: DROP BY DROP
Subtitle: A NOVEL OF TOMORROW
Series: STEP BY STEP – BOOK ONE
Author: MORGAN LLWELYN
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION, SPECULATIVE FICTION
Length: 320 PAGES
Publisher: TOR BOOKS
Received From: NETGALLEY
Release Date: JUNE 26, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-7653-8866-7 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 978-0-7653-8868-1 (eBook)
Price: $25.99 USD (Hardcover)
Price: $12.99 USD (ebook)
Rating: 5 OUT OF 5 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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DESCRIPTION:
From Morgan Llywelyn, the bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century series, comes Drop By Drop her first near-future science fiction thriller where technology fails and a small town struggles to survive global catastrophe.
In this first book in the Step By Step trilogy, global catastrophe occurs as all plastic mysteriously liquefies. All the small components making many technologies possible—navigation systems, communications, medical equipment—fail.
In Sycamore River, citizens find their lives disrupted as everything they’ve depended on melts around them, with sometimes fatal results. All they can rely upon is themselves.
And this is only the beginning . . .
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MY REVIEW:
“Drop by drop, the change came to Sycamore River. Slowly and quietly in the beginning, not enough to cause a ripple on the placid surface of the town. Few people noticed at first. Change can be like that.“
This Speculative Fiction novel is a completely unique idea of how change can begin without most people noticing.
This is the first book in the “Step By Step” series which promises to be not only one of a kind, but also one that will challenge the idea that we need technology to survive.
The small town of Sycamore River and its inhabitants will get under your skin and readers will find themselves actually caring about what happens to them.
Set in the not too distant future, Drop By Drop is a unique look at one possible future … And a scary one at that.
Morgan Llywelyn has an amazing ability to create people who are so realistic they could be your next door neighbors. She also describes the many different ways people react in a crisis. Some step up and others fall apart. Her writing will grab your attention and you will be unable to stop reading… literally. I read the entire book in less than twenty four hours and I was wishing the next book in the series was already available. I predict that DROP BY DROP will be on many Bestseller Lists and I rate it as 5 out of 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
QUOTES FROM THE BOOK:
“Every life’s a highway with a certain number of doors in it. When you go through one you can either leave it open or close it behind you.”
“To the average American male, whose automobile was emblematic not only of his financial status but also of his manhood, the situation was personal.”
“The threat of personal extinction was enough to make a man grab what happiness he could while there was still time.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Morgan Llywelyn was born in New York City on December 3, 1937 which makes her 80 years old now.
Morgan Llywelyn is an American-born Irish author best known for her historical fantasy, historical fiction, and historical non-fiction. Her fiction has received several awards and has sold more than 40 million copies, and she herself is recipient of the 1999 Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award from Celtic Women International.
To learn more about this author, visit the following links:
FANTASTIC FICTION (Complete List of All Morgan’s Books)
ISFDB (INTERNET SPECULATIVE FICTION DATABASE)
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