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Dark Nation: A Six-Book Post-Apocalyptic Epic—1,850+ Pages of Grit, Survival, and Unrelenting Action
The EMP changed everything. Now, survival is all that matters.
When a powerful EMP blast knocks out power across the country, schoolteacher Molly, former Marine Colton, and the five students they’re supervising on a trip are trapped inside a prison. Surrounded by hardened criminals and with no safe exit, it doesn’t take long for a riot to throw everything into chaos.
Meanwhile, Deb, Colton’s ex-wife, is lucky enough to fall in with a group of determined survivors. But her good fortune quickly turns into a nightmare when her people are captured by human traffickers, led by a vicious madman.
Molly and Colton must escape to safety with their students, while Deb is forced to lead her fellow survivors in a daring revolt. But in this savage new world, danger lurks around every corner. Is there any hope for safety as what’s left of society collapses?
Loyalties are tested, new bonds are forged, and survival is a daily battle in this new world.
This boxset contains books 1-6 of the Dark Nation series, a thrilling post-apocalyptic EMP saga spanning 1800+ pages.
When a powerful EMP blast knocks out power across the country, schoolteacher Molly, former Marine Colton, and the five students they’re supervising on a trip are trapped inside a prison. Surrounded by hardened criminals and with no safe exit, it doesn’t take long for a riot to throw everything into chaos.
Meanwhile, Deb, Colton’s ex-wife, is lucky enough to fall in with a group of determined survivors. But her good fortune quickly turns into a nightmare when her people are captured by human traffickers, led by a vicious madman.
Molly and Colton must escape to safety with their students, while Deb is forced to lead her fellow survivors in a daring revolt. But in this savage new world, danger lurks around every corner. Is there any hope for safety as what’s left of society collapses?
Loyalties are tested, new bonds are forged, and survival is a daily battle in this new world.
This boxset contains books 1-6 of the Dark Nation series, a thrilling post-apocalyptic EMP saga spanning 1800+ pages.
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Grace Hamilton
142 books297 followersGrace Hamilton is the prepper pen-name for a bad-ass, survivalist momma-bear of four kids, and wife to a wonderful husband. After being stuck in a mountain cabin for six days following a flash flood, she decided she never wanted to feel so powerless or have to send her kids to bed hungry again. Now she lives the prepper lifestyle and knows that if SHTF or TEOTWAWKI happens, she’ll be ready to help protect and provide for her family.
Combine this survivalist mentality with a vivid imagination (as well as a slightly unhealthy day dreaming habit) and you get a prepper fiction author. Grace spends her days thinking about the worst possible survival situations that a person could be thrown into, then throwing her characters into these nightmares while trying to figure out "What SHOULD you do in this situation?"
It’s her wish that through her characters, you will get to experience what life will be like and essentially learn from their mistakes and experiences.
Combine this survivalist mentality with a vivid imagination (as well as a slightly unhealthy day dreaming habit) and you get a prepper fiction author. Grace spends her days thinking about the worst possible survival situations that a person could be thrown into, then throwing her characters into these nightmares while trying to figure out "What SHOULD you do in this situation?"
It’s her wish that through her characters, you will get to experience what life will be like and essentially learn from their mistakes and experiences.
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December 25, 2024
Well-Done Post-Apocalyptic, Post-EMP Series
This six-book audiobook collection weighs in at over 48 hours! If you enjoy post-apocalyptic/EMP fiction, this author is amongst the best, even if her books are somewhat formulaic at points. I don't say “formulaic” as if it's a wholly bad thing, because this author is skilled. She takes a decent amount of time in the first book to set up all the main characters and their scenarios. As always in these books, we don’t just follow one group of people as they're trying to navigate their post-EMP world. Instead, the book and series follow several groups in different locations, with some connections between them, with groups at times splitting forcibly or choosing to for perceived safety. Compared to other books by this author, much time is spent at the beginning of the first book showing the world as it was before the EMP occurs.
As is typical in her six-book series, this could actually be split into two trilogies, with different emphases for the first three and last three books, but with an overarching theme and arc that connect them all. At its core, the entire series is about a teacher and the children she protects after an EMP strikes. When it happens, they were locked in with prisoners at a local prison, where the children were visiting as a part of a Scared Straight type of a program. Initially, she has the help of a former military school bus driver, but at different points in the series, they get separated.
Aside from the EMP, the series deals with a few challenging subjects, like opioid addiction and mental illness. As a former addictions nurse, I don't think the opioid addiction was shown accurately. The mental illness that happened in a later book was well depicted to give a sense of what that is like for people experiencing it. (Even if this character planned WAY more than an actually delirious person could!)
One issue I had with the series was that I thought the teacher imperiled the children too often, especially as she struggled with her own sense of how far she should go to protect the entire group or just one member of it.
Book 1 opens the door for a new, even worse villain in Book 2 that we’d only heard of in the prior book. He dominates this one, and the “prison” he creates is of his own, not of society. He finds the new world order an opportunity to take control of his small community and its limited resources, treating anybody who doesn't agree with him harshly.
Book 3 wraps up the first trilogy within this larger series of books. This book adds a new villain to the mix, a former prison guard who seeks his own form of vigilante justice, determined to round up and mete out his own justice to escaped prisoners who left the prison after the EMP. The villain of the prior book is not out of the picture. He is determined to find his daughter at nearly any cost. She willingly went, choosing a family of her own making, with a kind-hearted teacher and some schoolmates. Nature, the state of the home, and the villains are certainly against them. This book surprised me in that it had a redemption of a character I didn't think could be redeemed. We'll see how it goes in the next book, but I like the way this person pivoted and changed when he better understood reality, and he had more depth than I originally thought he could possibly have. Don't worry. At least one villain gets his due!
Book 4 was confusing at first, as I expected to see what would happen next to Molly (the teacher), the junior-high kids she'd been protecting, and the others they picked up along the way. Instead, this book is all about a group of people we knew some about in the prior three books but who felt more like a side plot than a main plot. This group becomes the main plot of this book, and this book also marks the shift away from the overarching prison theme of the first three books in this series. This book is all about work groups. At times, it was hard to listen to because, essentially, the workgroups were people forced into slavery by the work group bosses. Each work group has its own personality, so to speak, with some taking better care of their workers … but only because of the riches a healthy worker can bring to the boss. To hear the workgroup bosses and other higher-ups in the organizations talk about people as if they are a commodity, only in terms of “dollars and cents” is just hard to hear! Some groups are quite brutal, for instance, killing pregnant women because they won't be able to work hard while they're pregnant, and getting the return on investment from the second future worker (the child) is years in coming.
What will happen when a well-planned escape from one of these work groups occurs? Nature, being hunted, and evil strangers bedevil the beleaguered escapees. Will they find refuge? Will all continue on? The author cleverly ties something that happens near the end of Book 4 to something that happened in Book 3. This discovery jump-starts the next book, as the band of escapees strikes out again, this time in search of loved ones (and old friends) they’d been separated from—even if they aren’t sure they are still alive. The epilogue was the perfect capstone, providing the reader—finally!—a glimpse of Molly, the kids, and the rest of the crew. Just from the taste the epilogue gives us, we get a sense the work groups will continue to cause difficulties in this book as well; where Molly is at, they haven't taken over.
In Book 5, the two bands of people we've been following during the entire series draw closer to each other, or rather, the band who has been on the move for a few books is getting closer to the other group. In fact, they get to the area where they believe the other band to be rather quickly, but one person's history with the town and its people creates problems, the largest one being that key people who know of the other group's location will not share it. Of course, the major villain of the last couple of books is also hot in pursuit of the traveling group as well. On the plus side, the travelers can't quite believe the community created at their new location, with open bartering and a system that keeps the residents fed, housed, and even given access to a medical doctor. Things come to a head dramatically. Will the two groups of people find their way to each other? If they do, how will the settled family treat the newcomers? The ending chapters and epilogue give a good sense of how the last book of the series will start, with even more fireworks as the major psychopathic villain of this part of the series has a new, dark reason to wreak vengeance on those he has been seeking.
Books prior to Book 6 mostly had to do with how the two groups of people at the heart of the series interacted with outsiders, from families to small groups of thugs to communities. This book is all about the showdown between the surviving members of the two groups who are now living together uneasily in an abandoned Girl Scout camp in Maine and the person who's been the villain for three or four books. It felt odd, after the broader scope of the other books, to have this book shrink down so narrowly, both in the area covered and with the people it focused on.
The villain, Mike, was injured at the end of the last book, and the author did a great job showing us at the beginning of the book how his terrible wound became infected, and he became delirious because of infection. One particular chapter brilliantly depicted the instability of his mind and his perception of his world. After this first part, though, we didn't see or hear much from Mike's perspective until the very end. That's unfortunate because it was fascinating, and I was curious about what was going on with him. Surely, the author could tell us even if she kept the other characters in the dark!
Most of the story is a cat-and-mouse game between Mike and the rest of the people. The group wants to find him and neutralize him as a threat. Mike thinks he's smarter than everybody, and that he will eventually be able to get them all right where he wants them in the end. While some squabbling between the two groups of people brought together in the last book rears its ugly head on multiple occasions because of histories that can’t be simply overcome and the innate challenge of making two groups who are only just getting to know each other into a solid team able face their mutual foe.
For most of the book, despite his injuries and delirium, Mike appeared to be always a step or more ahead of the good guys. As a nurse who's seen people with actual delirium, this part of the story made little sense. He crafted some pretty ingenious traps that just, honestly, would not have been possible for a man in his state of mind. Chapters narrated by him made it clear he was slipping in and out of reality. Most of his traps were complex, which would have required logical reasoning to set up so that they would truly do what he intended. That's really my only quibble with the last book.
I enjoyed watching the two groups of people truly meld into a unit as they worked together to bring down their mutual enemy. Of course, we lose some key members of the good guys because of Mike's traps and outright violence. I had grown enough to care about the characters in this book that losing them in rapid succession brought a tear to my eye both times. I have to say this author does a fantastic job of characterization, even in large series like this one. This series and this book had a lot of players in it, yet each had his or her own growth arc and moments that tested their character that were so true to what we'd been shown of them before. These characters lived and breathed on the page, a rare and wonderful accomplishment by any writer.
Of course, eventually, good triumphs over evil, but even victory brings more losses to the group. But they've been so resilient so far you know everyone will be okay afterward. Happily, the epilogue, which takes place 18 months later, shows us that. I like it when authors make the epilogue a well-deserved victory lap. Highly recommended.
I received a promo code for this audiobook, but that did not affect my review.
This six-book audiobook collection weighs in at over 48 hours! If you enjoy post-apocalyptic/EMP fiction, this author is amongst the best, even if her books are somewhat formulaic at points. I don't say “formulaic” as if it's a wholly bad thing, because this author is skilled. She takes a decent amount of time in the first book to set up all the main characters and their scenarios. As always in these books, we don’t just follow one group of people as they're trying to navigate their post-EMP world. Instead, the book and series follow several groups in different locations, with some connections between them, with groups at times splitting forcibly or choosing to for perceived safety. Compared to other books by this author, much time is spent at the beginning of the first book showing the world as it was before the EMP occurs.
As is typical in her six-book series, this could actually be split into two trilogies, with different emphases for the first three and last three books, but with an overarching theme and arc that connect them all. At its core, the entire series is about a teacher and the children she protects after an EMP strikes. When it happens, they were locked in with prisoners at a local prison, where the children were visiting as a part of a Scared Straight type of a program. Initially, she has the help of a former military school bus driver, but at different points in the series, they get separated.
Aside from the EMP, the series deals with a few challenging subjects, like opioid addiction and mental illness. As a former addictions nurse, I don't think the opioid addiction was shown accurately. The mental illness that happened in a later book was well depicted to give a sense of what that is like for people experiencing it. (Even if this character planned WAY more than an actually delirious person could!)
One issue I had with the series was that I thought the teacher imperiled the children too often, especially as she struggled with her own sense of how far she should go to protect the entire group or just one member of it.
Book 1 opens the door for a new, even worse villain in Book 2 that we’d only heard of in the prior book. He dominates this one, and the “prison” he creates is of his own, not of society. He finds the new world order an opportunity to take control of his small community and its limited resources, treating anybody who doesn't agree with him harshly.
Book 3 wraps up the first trilogy within this larger series of books. This book adds a new villain to the mix, a former prison guard who seeks his own form of vigilante justice, determined to round up and mete out his own justice to escaped prisoners who left the prison after the EMP. The villain of the prior book is not out of the picture. He is determined to find his daughter at nearly any cost. She willingly went, choosing a family of her own making, with a kind-hearted teacher and some schoolmates. Nature, the state of the home, and the villains are certainly against them. This book surprised me in that it had a redemption of a character I didn't think could be redeemed. We'll see how it goes in the next book, but I like the way this person pivoted and changed when he better understood reality, and he had more depth than I originally thought he could possibly have. Don't worry. At least one villain gets his due!
Book 4 was confusing at first, as I expected to see what would happen next to Molly (the teacher), the junior-high kids she'd been protecting, and the others they picked up along the way. Instead, this book is all about a group of people we knew some about in the prior three books but who felt more like a side plot than a main plot. This group becomes the main plot of this book, and this book also marks the shift away from the overarching prison theme of the first three books in this series. This book is all about work groups. At times, it was hard to listen to because, essentially, the workgroups were people forced into slavery by the work group bosses. Each work group has its own personality, so to speak, with some taking better care of their workers … but only because of the riches a healthy worker can bring to the boss. To hear the workgroup bosses and other higher-ups in the organizations talk about people as if they are a commodity, only in terms of “dollars and cents” is just hard to hear! Some groups are quite brutal, for instance, killing pregnant women because they won't be able to work hard while they're pregnant, and getting the return on investment from the second future worker (the child) is years in coming.
What will happen when a well-planned escape from one of these work groups occurs? Nature, being hunted, and evil strangers bedevil the beleaguered escapees. Will they find refuge? Will all continue on? The author cleverly ties something that happens near the end of Book 4 to something that happened in Book 3. This discovery jump-starts the next book, as the band of escapees strikes out again, this time in search of loved ones (and old friends) they’d been separated from—even if they aren’t sure they are still alive. The epilogue was the perfect capstone, providing the reader—finally!—a glimpse of Molly, the kids, and the rest of the crew. Just from the taste the epilogue gives us, we get a sense the work groups will continue to cause difficulties in this book as well; where Molly is at, they haven't taken over.
In Book 5, the two bands of people we've been following during the entire series draw closer to each other, or rather, the band who has been on the move for a few books is getting closer to the other group. In fact, they get to the area where they believe the other band to be rather quickly, but one person's history with the town and its people creates problems, the largest one being that key people who know of the other group's location will not share it. Of course, the major villain of the last couple of books is also hot in pursuit of the traveling group as well. On the plus side, the travelers can't quite believe the community created at their new location, with open bartering and a system that keeps the residents fed, housed, and even given access to a medical doctor. Things come to a head dramatically. Will the two groups of people find their way to each other? If they do, how will the settled family treat the newcomers? The ending chapters and epilogue give a good sense of how the last book of the series will start, with even more fireworks as the major psychopathic villain of this part of the series has a new, dark reason to wreak vengeance on those he has been seeking.
Books prior to Book 6 mostly had to do with how the two groups of people at the heart of the series interacted with outsiders, from families to small groups of thugs to communities. This book is all about the showdown between the surviving members of the two groups who are now living together uneasily in an abandoned Girl Scout camp in Maine and the person who's been the villain for three or four books. It felt odd, after the broader scope of the other books, to have this book shrink down so narrowly, both in the area covered and with the people it focused on.
The villain, Mike, was injured at the end of the last book, and the author did a great job showing us at the beginning of the book how his terrible wound became infected, and he became delirious because of infection. One particular chapter brilliantly depicted the instability of his mind and his perception of his world. After this first part, though, we didn't see or hear much from Mike's perspective until the very end. That's unfortunate because it was fascinating, and I was curious about what was going on with him. Surely, the author could tell us even if she kept the other characters in the dark!
Most of the story is a cat-and-mouse game between Mike and the rest of the people. The group wants to find him and neutralize him as a threat. Mike thinks he's smarter than everybody, and that he will eventually be able to get them all right where he wants them in the end. While some squabbling between the two groups of people brought together in the last book rears its ugly head on multiple occasions because of histories that can’t be simply overcome and the innate challenge of making two groups who are only just getting to know each other into a solid team able face their mutual foe.
For most of the book, despite his injuries and delirium, Mike appeared to be always a step or more ahead of the good guys. As a nurse who's seen people with actual delirium, this part of the story made little sense. He crafted some pretty ingenious traps that just, honestly, would not have been possible for a man in his state of mind. Chapters narrated by him made it clear he was slipping in and out of reality. Most of his traps were complex, which would have required logical reasoning to set up so that they would truly do what he intended. That's really my only quibble with the last book.
I enjoyed watching the two groups of people truly meld into a unit as they worked together to bring down their mutual enemy. Of course, we lose some key members of the good guys because of Mike's traps and outright violence. I had grown enough to care about the characters in this book that losing them in rapid succession brought a tear to my eye both times. I have to say this author does a fantastic job of characterization, even in large series like this one. This series and this book had a lot of players in it, yet each had his or her own growth arc and moments that tested their character that were so true to what we'd been shown of them before. These characters lived and breathed on the page, a rare and wonderful accomplishment by any writer.
Of course, eventually, good triumphs over evil, but even victory brings more losses to the group. But they've been so resilient so far you know everyone will be okay afterward. Happily, the epilogue, which takes place 18 months later, shows us that. I like it when authors make the epilogue a well-deserved victory lap. Highly recommended.
I received a promo code for this audiobook, but that did not affect my review.
December 7, 2024
Escaping Anarchy Bk1:
This is book one in the Dark Nation series and is about Molly an English, the bus driver retired Marine Colton, and five high school students who are at the Scared Straight program in Fairfield Prison. While at the prison an EMP hits and takes out the power in the prison causing chaos. Molly, Colton, and the students are trying to get out of the prison along with some dangerous inmates. This is a great start to the series and I can't wait to read the next book to find out what happens next. The writing is well done, the characters are well developed and the ending left me ready for the next book.
Enduring Anarchy Bk2:
This is book two of the Dark Nation series and it picks up where book one left off. As with all of this author's books this series gives the readers believable, it could really happen scenarios. Molly, Colton, and a group of high school students have made it back home only to find out that the town is a disaster. This is a captivating story filled with danger, suspense, action, descriptive writing, and unexpected page turning twists that had me reading non-stop until the final page. After that ending I can't wait to read the conclusion to find out how the group's story ends.
Surviving Anarchy Bk3:
This is the final book in the Dark Nation series and a definite page turner. I highly recommend you read the first two books to fully understand the journey Molly and the group have gone on. The writing is well done, the characters are well developed, and the story is packed with unexpected twists, danger, suspense, and descriptive writing that made this a great read. I am really enjoying this author's writing and I look forward to reading her next series.
Rising Anarchy Bk4:
As always Grace Hamilton gives the reader a scary and realistic take of it could happen scenarios and I've learned a lot about what not to do and what to do during a world collapse. Rising Anarchy is book four and a page turning addition to the Dark Nation series. I recommend you start this series from book one otherwise you will miss out on a captivating series. Great writing, an intriguing storyline, and interesting characters make this a great read and after that ending I'm so ready for the next book.
Evolving Anarchy Bk5:
Deb and the gang are back in Evolving Anarchy book five of the Dark Nation series. Grace Hamilton takes us on an action packed and captivating rollercoaster ride and I loved every post-apocalyptic twist and turn along the way. The writing is descriptive and this page turning story has danger, suspense, unexpected twists, and well developed characters.
Withstanding Anarchy Bk6:
Withstanding Anarchy is book six and the final book in the Dark Nation series. You need to start this series from book one otherwise you will be lost. The writing is well done, the characters are believable, and the it could happen scenarios are true to life scary. This was a great ending to the series and I can't wait to read the next series.
I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book.
This is book one in the Dark Nation series and is about Molly an English, the bus driver retired Marine Colton, and five high school students who are at the Scared Straight program in Fairfield Prison. While at the prison an EMP hits and takes out the power in the prison causing chaos. Molly, Colton, and the students are trying to get out of the prison along with some dangerous inmates. This is a great start to the series and I can't wait to read the next book to find out what happens next. The writing is well done, the characters are well developed and the ending left me ready for the next book.
Enduring Anarchy Bk2:
This is book two of the Dark Nation series and it picks up where book one left off. As with all of this author's books this series gives the readers believable, it could really happen scenarios. Molly, Colton, and a group of high school students have made it back home only to find out that the town is a disaster. This is a captivating story filled with danger, suspense, action, descriptive writing, and unexpected page turning twists that had me reading non-stop until the final page. After that ending I can't wait to read the conclusion to find out how the group's story ends.
Surviving Anarchy Bk3:
This is the final book in the Dark Nation series and a definite page turner. I highly recommend you read the first two books to fully understand the journey Molly and the group have gone on. The writing is well done, the characters are well developed, and the story is packed with unexpected twists, danger, suspense, and descriptive writing that made this a great read. I am really enjoying this author's writing and I look forward to reading her next series.
Rising Anarchy Bk4:
As always Grace Hamilton gives the reader a scary and realistic take of it could happen scenarios and I've learned a lot about what not to do and what to do during a world collapse. Rising Anarchy is book four and a page turning addition to the Dark Nation series. I recommend you start this series from book one otherwise you will miss out on a captivating series. Great writing, an intriguing storyline, and interesting characters make this a great read and after that ending I'm so ready for the next book.
Evolving Anarchy Bk5:
Deb and the gang are back in Evolving Anarchy book five of the Dark Nation series. Grace Hamilton takes us on an action packed and captivating rollercoaster ride and I loved every post-apocalyptic twist and turn along the way. The writing is descriptive and this page turning story has danger, suspense, unexpected twists, and well developed characters.
Withstanding Anarchy Bk6:
Withstanding Anarchy is book six and the final book in the Dark Nation series. You need to start this series from book one otherwise you will be lost. The writing is well done, the characters are believable, and the it could happen scenarios are true to life scary. This was a great ending to the series and I can't wait to read the next series.
I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book.
December 27, 2024
I must first start by saying that this was actually my favourite story of this author so far, while I wished we had more from the point of view of the teenagers, it was a good story, I did enjoy more the first 3 books, then when the story went for Deb group and finally came together with molly and the teens, I kind of see before hand where the story was going on, and to be perfectly clear I didn’t like that part of the story, while I may be a little hypocritical saying that because I did like the tv show Mom that was quite similar… and I was hopping for a different kind of ending with different people dying (yes people, grab your box of tissues, the last book is full of good people dying, but if you want to know, get a copy and listen or read for yourself).
I really enjoyed the reading by Andrew Tell, and I must tell you, if we had also a female reading the point of view of women this would be the absolutely perfect audiobook, but I did still enjoyed Andrew job here, and will recommend this audiobook. Its almost 50 hours but well worth, and I am thankful for having the pleasure of listening to this audiobook before the end of the year.
I got a free code for Audible from booksprout, and this is my honest opinion.
I really enjoyed the reading by Andrew Tell, and I must tell you, if we had also a female reading the point of view of women this would be the absolutely perfect audiobook, but I did still enjoyed Andrew job here, and will recommend this audiobook. Its almost 50 hours but well worth, and I am thankful for having the pleasure of listening to this audiobook before the end of the year.
I got a free code for Audible from booksprout, and this is my honest opinion.
December 2, 2024
I actively seek out new "end of the world as we know it" authors and series. I discovered Grace Hamilton many years ago and have read most.....if not all.....of her books. She is a prolific author, having penned many series, all on apocalyptic aftermaths and the good vs bad characters you find in any thriller. BUT, even though she's written many a dark and gloomy tale, each series is unique. Each set of characters is unique. She doesn't recycle her previous books. This makes Grace Hamilton one of about a dozen authors of differing genre that I follow on FB to make sure I know when a new book releases. This box set contains all 6 of the Dark Nation books. So you can start and finish the series without having to wait for the next book to be released!
The best thing about Grace Hamilton's books.....should there be an EMP in my future, I'd know what to do to kick the bad guys to the curb!
5 stars.....again.
The best thing about Grace Hamilton's books.....should there be an EMP in my future, I'd know what to do to kick the bad guys to the curb!
5 stars.....again.
December 12, 2024
For fans of EMP dystopian fiction, this set is a winner! The story follows teacher, Molly, and the chosen family she finds along the way. Molly and a group of at-risk students are in the middle of a scared-straight prison tour when an EMP hits and the power goes out. Molly and her charges are thrown into a harrowing scenario, but eventually escape the prison, only to realize that life outside the prison may be more dangerous. An assortment of parents/community members have to find their own ways to survive the aftermath. Interesting story lines, various triumphs over adversity lead to an interesting journey for fans of the genre of fiction.
***I received an ARC of this title from NetGalley in exchange for a review***
***I received an ARC of this title from NetGalley in exchange for a review***
August 20, 2025
I am addicted to Grace Hamilton's books!! the way she not onky makes everything so plausible in where everyday people are when an EMP hits, adding the real struggle of a family member who has physical disabilities and extra needs, and the consequenses of not properly preparing are things that have made me have to think outside the box of how I would respond if an EMP happened in real life and how I would be able to help my family. I have actually learned new skills by listening to her books that I never thought about! these arent instruction manuals for prepping, but they show how different people prepare differently, and the struggles that arrise. I will never turn down the chance to read these books!
December 3, 2024
Dark Nation is a six book series focusing on a small group of people including two adults and five high school teenagers who travel to a local prison to participate in a Scared Straight activity. Unfortunately, an EMP event occurs which causes the electronic grid to collapse leaving them to struggle to survive in post-apocalyptic environment. A variety of characters are added to the plot within this saga. This well written series has a creative story line with suspense, intrigue, danger, plot twists, and realistic and well developed characters.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
December 20, 2024
What an impossible series to put down! I stopped or dropped everything once I’d read the first chapter so I could read as seamlessly as possible. The characters were so real, flaws and all, that I found friends. And lost a few too. Action? Diverse and earth shattering. This was a very emotional read and I was left with hope for those who worked so hard to survive. I loved the entire thing.
December 9, 2024
I've read a lot of books written by Grace Hamilton; she is one of my favorite authors. I can’t wait to read more of her books.
This is the six-book boxset of the Dark Nation Series. All the books are well written with interesting story lines and characters.
This is the six-book boxset of the Dark Nation Series. All the books are well written with interesting story lines and characters.
November 26, 2024
A very good post apocalyptic series, madness & mayhem galore! Good levels of excitement & action, some angst, overall a really fun series.
January 16, 2025
love these series so much! … Dark Nation; Six Book Post-Apocalyptic series was epic … absolutely recommend
January 20, 2026
This entire series was amazing, Colton and Molly having Little Hack. Absolutely broke my heart losing Lucky and Tommy.
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February 3, 2026
A good solid post apocalyptic story. I liked most of the characters. The bad ones were easy to dislike. It all seemed as if it could really happen.
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