Evacuation

The Seamus Chronicles #2

by K.D. McAdams

They have only one chance for survival, leave... the planet. Book 2 of The Seamus Chronicles The virus that wiped out most of the human race is adapting to defeat the vaccine and kill the survivors. There is a government response protocol but it will kill them too, it involves a nuclear winter. The NASA scientists believe they can leave Earth and achieve faster than light travel, but Seamus doesn’t want to slog through space. He knows that to survive they need to go somewhere fast. To save them all he needs to invent a warp drive and evacuate the planet. It has been seven months since the apocalypse hit and killed almost the entire human race. Seamus and the other survivors have fallen into a comfortable routine at their new home in Northern California, but there's a problem. The Crenshaw's are hiding something. They want Seamus to help them with a solar sail that will make it possible for faster than light travel. With dwindling supplies survivors need to focus on food and water, not space travel. Seamus feels like he owes them but there is something wrong with how important this is to them. Finally refusing to work on their project the scope of their predicament becomes clear. He must come up with a way to not just leave Earth, but go somewhere.

239 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 6, 2014

About the author

K. D. McAdams is a fiction author writing thriller, dystopian and horror stories. His new thriller series, featuring Dylan Cold, is set in Southern New Hampshire where his small farm town is anything but quiet. K. D.’s first series, The Seamus Chronicles, follows a teen genius and his family from the apocalypse into the stars. His horror series, Metropolitan Zombie Survivors watches unlikely survivors struggle to escape major cities overrun with Zombies. K. D.’s works can be found on all major eBook platforms with select titles also available in print.

Reviews

[Marion Marchetto · Rating 5 out of 5]

In EVACUATION, we continue the story of Seamus Robinson and his family as they move among a small band of survivors on Planet Earth's last days. The 'killer cold' virus has wiped out 99.9% of earth's population. The survivors had been chosen by the powers that be for their knowledge; add to that some folks naturally immune to the virus and you have this little rag-tag band of people looking to keep civilization alive. We join them five months after the apocalyptic event.

The survivors learn that the virus has the power to mutate in order to render the small amount of vaccine left to become useless. The scientists among the group determine that the only way to make Earth habitable once again is to vacate the planet and create a nuclear winter thus killing everything - plants, animals, vegetation - in order to kill the virus. They work feverishly to build an interplanetary craft and identify the nearest habitable planet. Each person spends nearly all their time working to make sure they have everything they need to survive and to re-establish life back on Earth when they return. But then two of their members get sick and die - causing the timetable to be shortened. The virus will not be denied. Will this group be ready in time to avoid certain death? What lies before them? Will they survive the time warp jump that has never before been attempted?

I must admit that like Annihilation (Book 1), this book kept me on the edge of my seat from the opening sentence to the final word. The story is easy to follow, easy to read, and flows from one page to the next. The characters are well-rounded without being too complex. This book, along with the others in The Seamus Chronicles, would be terrific for the entire family. It will appeal to teens, young adults, moms and dads, and those especially interested in post-apocalyptic events.

The moral of this story is that one can never be over-educated - who knows when you might be called upon to save humanity.

[Carly Kirk · Rating 2 out of 5]

And here's where purchasing 4 books at once comes to bite you a bit. In this 2nd book of the series Seamus pulls a rabbit out of a hat and invents space travel via I-don't-know-what to get the remaining 20 odd people left on earth to another planet. Really? Also, I kept thinking - 20-ish people, how long until the human race is so inbred it dies out anyway, now matter where they end up? Anyway, I still own the other books, so I'm going to go ahead and read the next one to see where this story goes.

[K.D. Shepherd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second in the Seamus Chronicles. Great follow-up to the first book, Annihilation. Takes the survivors of the "killer cold" to a new level as they struggle to determine the next course of action in order to save themselves. Looking forward to the third installment.

[Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

boring....but necessary for Book 3...starting it right now