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Red Rain #9
False Flag
We're playing my game now, Asia.
The year is 2076. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities—or suffer the consequences.
On September 17th, 2076, the war for freedom starts. Seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna, the figurehead of the revolution, rallies the people as Asia, her nemesis in the government, continues to hunt down her allies. When Asia’s ruthless executions turn public favor, the unassimilated finally gain the upper hand. But before they can claim victory, an old ally returns with devastating information: Asia knows where the underground is hiding. Operation day will be a massacre. Determined to save the innocent people of Beijing, Philadelphia undertakes one final desperate mission: Resume her identity as “Andromeda Nolan,” infiltrate high society, and take Asia down from the inside.
False Flag is the ninth book in the RED RAIN series, a fast-paced Christian sci-fi adventure for middle grade and young adult readers.
The year is 2076. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities—or suffer the consequences.
On September 17th, 2076, the war for freedom starts. Seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna, the figurehead of the revolution, rallies the people as Asia, her nemesis in the government, continues to hunt down her allies. When Asia’s ruthless executions turn public favor, the unassimilated finally gain the upper hand. But before they can claim victory, an old ally returns with devastating information: Asia knows where the underground is hiding. Operation day will be a massacre. Determined to save the innocent people of Beijing, Philadelphia undertakes one final desperate mission: Resume her identity as “Andromeda Nolan,” infiltrate high society, and take Asia down from the inside.
False Flag is the ninth book in the RED RAIN series, a fast-paced Christian sci-fi adventure for middle grade and young adult readers.
296 pages, Paperback
Published November 19, 2024
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Rachel Newhouse
42 books39 followersRachel Newhouse is an author, wife, secretary, and Sunday school teacher from Kansas City, Missouri. Her obsessions are sci-fi, dystopian, and kid lit. When she’s not writing, she’s cooking Asian food, growing chilis that are too spicy to eat, and watching wildly age-inappropriate shows like My Little Pony and Gravity Falls with her husband, Joe. She also really likes glitter. You’ve been warned.
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May 12, 2025Guess what's 20,000 words longer than Book #8... and is coming out in ONE WEEK??
I do solemnly swear that this one DOES NOT have a cliffhanger ending... at least not like the last two. (I'm sorry...)
I do solemnly swear that this one DOES NOT have a cliffhanger ending... at least not like the last two. (I'm sorry...)
December 3, 2025
I LOVED book 9! Duddeeee, the ending... I personally cannot wait until book 10.
Rachel's books are always clean, no cursing, no explicit scenes, AND they are Christian dystopian. I recommend her books for anyone from elementary age all the way up to adults! They are good, fast reads that have so much description in them. They keep you on the edge of your seat, wanting more after that last page!
If you haven’t yet, definitely go check out her first book in the series 'Red Rain'!
Rachel's books are always clean, no cursing, no explicit scenes, AND they are Christian dystopian. I recommend her books for anyone from elementary age all the way up to adults! They are good, fast reads that have so much description in them. They keep you on the edge of your seat, wanting more after that last page!
If you haven’t yet, definitely go check out her first book in the series 'Red Rain'!
November 23, 2024
A perfect ending.
I loved every bit of this book. All of the miscellaneous pieces finally come together into Phil’s revolution and it is beautiful. The things we don’t get to see are burning me up inside, but I guess I’ll have to wait to find out how everything falls out. I love this series so much and it’s amazing to finally see Phil come into her own.
I loved every bit of this book. All of the miscellaneous pieces finally come together into Phil’s revolution and it is beautiful. The things we don’t get to see are burning me up inside, but I guess I’ll have to wait to find out how everything falls out. I love this series so much and it’s amazing to finally see Phil come into her own.
November 12, 2025
You know the feeling you sometimes get when reading something, that there's something important in the story even if you can't put your finger on what? (One of my go-to examples of that would be The Thirteenth Child.) And you know the feeling you sometimes get when you finish reading something, that all the incidental seemingly-unimportant details and incidents have added up to a thematic "weight", even if (again) you can't exactly put it into words? (For me, that was Meet the Austins.) Well, for me False Flag gave me both of these feelings.
False Flag is the ninth "main-line" book in the (Amazon-niche-bestselling) Red Rain series of Christian YA dystopian action-adventure (but genre-blending) fiction (the series that keeps almost making me forget how much I dislike dystopian fiction). It significantly advances the plot, with twist after eminently satisfying twist that I did not see coming, and continues the series' recent open consideration of spiritual issues without sacrificing the "fast-paced action-adventure" (and, conversely, suspense) that has contributed to the series' success.
And the experience of the book is made all the more enjoyable by Mrs. Newhouse's trademark "can't-put-it-down" narrative voice. While not perfect (I would really like the first-person narration to be consistently distinct between the point-of-view characters ... though I think this may be a little better than the last few books on that point?), it kept me coming back to the story day after day in the snatched minutes I could spare for reading it, and then kept me up until well after midnight finishing it.
Highly recommended ... though I'm not sure whether this is really a good place to start if you're not already familiar with the series.
A fuller review followed on my blog. I received a "free" advance electronic copy of False Flag as a financial supporter on the author's Patreon.
False Flag is the ninth "main-line" book in the (Amazon-niche-bestselling) Red Rain series of Christian YA dystopian action-adventure (but genre-blending) fiction (the series that keeps almost making me forget how much I dislike dystopian fiction). It significantly advances the plot, with twist after eminently satisfying twist that I did not see coming, and continues the series' recent open consideration of spiritual issues without sacrificing the "fast-paced action-adventure" (and, conversely, suspense) that has contributed to the series' success.
And the experience of the book is made all the more enjoyable by Mrs. Newhouse's trademark "can't-put-it-down" narrative voice. While not perfect (I would really like the first-person narration to be consistently distinct between the point-of-view characters ... though I think this may be a little better than the last few books on that point?), it kept me coming back to the story day after day in the snatched minutes I could spare for reading it, and then kept me up until well after midnight finishing it.
Highly recommended ... though I'm not sure whether this is really a good place to start if you're not already familiar with the series.
A fuller review followed on my blog. I received a "free" advance electronic copy of False Flag as a financial supporter on the author's Patreon.
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