Blurb:
I’m in the middle of the perfect
college semester, hundreds of miles from Mom, with an awesome roomie and my freshman
crush finally becoming a sophomore reality—Hotness! I’m figuring out calculus,
I’ve got both hands on the handlebars and the wind of freedom in my hair. What
on earth could slow my roll?
How about if the Yellowstone volcano
erupts for the first time in six-hundred-thirty-thousand (630,000) years,
spewing a continuous load of ash (crap) all over North America? Think that’ll
put a kink in my bicycle chain?
Make that kinks, plural, because here’s a scientific fact I’ll bet you didn’t
know. Nothing ruins the perfect semester like a super caldera. Now that I’ve
made you smarter today, maybe you can tell me how to keep my life cruising in
the right direction—no to Mom, yes to roomie, double yes to Hotness!—during a
global disaster?
My lame name is Violet and, in the
interest of full disclosure, I’m not hanging from the side of a cinder cone on
the last page of this trauma, but there’s definitely more to come. Unless, of
course, humans become extinct and then there’s not. Duh.
Eruption
is book one in the Yellowblown™ Series.
Review by Rochelle Weber:
I
loved Eruption. I've probably
mentioned that twice a week I do volunteer work at the Captain James A. Lovell
Federal Health Care Center (which I frequently refer to as "the VA"
even though it's a Navy and Veteran's hospital combined). I was so into
Violet, Hotness, and the eruption that I came around the corner to the
Quarterdeck (the entrance aboard ship or in a Navy facility) where there’s a
large-screen TV that’s always set to CNN and saw a map of the US and was
shocked when everything was green. I thought, Where’s the red bloom over Yellowstone? The brown smudge spreading
across the US? Oh! That’s in the book! It’s FICTION! Thank goodness!
I don’t know if I could
survive a disaster of global proportions. Violet gamely learns to load and fire
a shotgun, and then goes squirrel hunting. She joins the assembly line on a
farm where her grandmother and neighbors corral and kill a dozen chickens and
then helps to pluck them while her grandpa and the neighbor’s son drain and gut
them so she and her grandma will be able to take them home and can them in a
broth made from the offal. I admire Violet’s courage and strong stomach. She
adjusts to life mostly without power, helps dig out a pool to divert a stream
and learns to live without running water—most of this with the help of Hotness,
who is stranded with her family. She even manages to live with her Mom’s “supportocation.”
That’s a combination of support and suffocation—a fine line every mother walks
and frequently crosses. I love the word!
The eruption of the
Yellowstone caldera truly is overdue according to geologists. I’ve seen
programs discussing it on PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, etc. It’s one of
those Extinction Level Events in my file of, “If it ever happens I’d like my
whole family to be together—both daughters, sons-in-law, and all of my
grandkids/great-grandkid.” I suppose my sons-in-law’s families would feel the
same way.
The only thing I didn’t
like was the ending. I appreciate that Eruption is the first book in a series,
but it was sort of a cliff-hanger, and that’s one of my pet peeves. I really
can’t wait for the next book in the “Yellowblown™ Series.” Darn it! Meanwhile,
I suspect it’ll be awhile before I can look at a map of the US and not stare at
Yellowstone.
Length:
204 Pages
Digital
Price: $0.99
Thanks for visiting. Rose,
Julie, Donna, & Rochelle
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