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Dawnland #3
Hella Rises
Meet Hella Paige. She kills zombies. In the much anticipated third book of the Dawnland series, Hella transforms into a superhero with fans and desperate people alike trying to get her attention. Her zombie killing virus exterminates thousands, making her the most sought after person alive.
Hella has to fight both the undead and her most powerful foe, Mace Duce and his army of thugs. Can Hella break free of her new found fame and her enemies to find the life of her dreams with the one she loves?
Hella has to fight both the undead and her most powerful foe, Mace Duce and his army of thugs. Can Hella break free of her new found fame and her enemies to find the life of her dreams with the one she loves?
- GenresZombies
280 pages, Paperback
First published December 21, 2014
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About the author
Karen Carr
10 books55 followersI discovered at a young age that I liked to write. It was mostly because of my father, who wrote so much that he could not leave his study without an avalanche of papers following him. In fact, the only piece of furniture in the study was an old leather sofa. The rest of the room was full of books and bookshelves. It was on this sofa that I spent many hours honing my craft, even after he was gone.
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March 12, 2015
Where, oh where, to start reviewing this hot mess?!?
Book one was okay... bland, but okay. I continued to see wth it would go. I found myself skipping in book two because it nearly put me to sleep with the monologues & exhausting descriptions of shit I didn't give two pisses about, but I was curious as to the romantic cliffhanger. I like a good badboy;) Then I got to the romantic clean up in book three where she'd choose one or the other and wanted to f'ing punch a wall. It wasn't who she chose, but rather how. If she wanted the boring dude that fawned all over another chick in front of her, then be my guest. BUT.. Don't have me read all this angsty, indecisive crap only to resolve it with the "brother" line. Don't tell me that she feels all this passion for the dude and them turn him into a bro. More on that latter.
This series veered off in the wrong direction after book one and just never righted itself. I like dry humor, I like zombie apocalypse, I like hot dudes... So I should be headed to a five star review, but, sadly, the author bombed on all fronts. Boring zombies. Forced romance. Asinine characters. Soft bad guys. Humor that wasn't funny.
It became clear that the author was trying to inject a very dry humor to the story.. I got that, but the problem was that the writing was so flat and stiff in delivery that it was like crickets chirping, and I'd bet that most people probably didn't even recognize when something was supposed to be funny. "The fairy princess had taken down a deer." Could've been funny~
The action was the same.. Lackluster, stiff, like a tutorial on cleaning lint out of a dryer vent.
The female MC is the most annoying, hypocritical human I could possibly imagine being stuck with during an apocalypse. She berates a dude for wearing someone else's clothes, but she has no problem scavenging for what she needs, wants, taking a little girl's bracelet, etc. She thinks an education is the litmus test for a persons' character, worth, value. She treats the dead like a science project. Just a retched character. By the second and third books, the chick lightens up, but she does a 180 degree turn and is suddenly a damn badass, shoot em up, kick em in the nuts, let's save the world chick that's just not believable.
The aura thing is lame. Immunity.. Fine, but 1000 yard floating aura that has to play catch-up if she moves to fast.. Come the f on, really?!? I don't have to have some complicated scientific explanation, but the author never even bothered to but R&R to the immunity, aura, nor the shit at the end with the reverse bite (eye roll)! Fantasy is great and all, but the shit should still have some roots, foundation in reality for it not to boggle the brain.
Honey and mint zombie pheromone calling card. F me!
Human bite turns ppl to zombies and zombies to people. Yeah, F me!
The most inept, honorable bad guys you'll ever meet. F me, again!
This is a damn love triangle from HELL!! One minute one dude is saying she's like a sister and bam, wham all of a sudden out of the wild blue he is professing his love and wooing her on horseback while the one she's been with is playing flirty translator for another chick that's acting as his nursemaid. Back and forth we go with the female MC lusting after how good each dude's muscles look & how great each kiss. Then bam, wham it's all solved in one sentence of saying they all three laughed together and everything reverted to as it was where one had a brother role and the other had a lover role. THERE is nothing I hate more than a forced, fabricated love triangle by an author whereby I have to read how f'ing hot, wonderful, lovely, and perfect a female MC thinks a guy is FOR TWO BOOKS only for it all to be mooted by a single sentence of AHHHHHA "he's like my brother!" Nah, I don't rub my ass on my brother's crotch and get tingles! Total waste; total copout!
Book one was okay... bland, but okay. I continued to see wth it would go. I found myself skipping in book two because it nearly put me to sleep with the monologues & exhausting descriptions of shit I didn't give two pisses about, but I was curious as to the romantic cliffhanger. I like a good badboy;) Then I got to the romantic clean up in book three where she'd choose one or the other and wanted to f'ing punch a wall. It wasn't who she chose, but rather how. If she wanted the boring dude that fawned all over another chick in front of her, then be my guest. BUT.. Don't have me read all this angsty, indecisive crap only to resolve it with the "brother" line. Don't tell me that she feels all this passion for the dude and them turn him into a bro. More on that latter.
This series veered off in the wrong direction after book one and just never righted itself. I like dry humor, I like zombie apocalypse, I like hot dudes... So I should be headed to a five star review, but, sadly, the author bombed on all fronts. Boring zombies. Forced romance. Asinine characters. Soft bad guys. Humor that wasn't funny.
It became clear that the author was trying to inject a very dry humor to the story.. I got that, but the problem was that the writing was so flat and stiff in delivery that it was like crickets chirping, and I'd bet that most people probably didn't even recognize when something was supposed to be funny. "The fairy princess had taken down a deer." Could've been funny~
The action was the same.. Lackluster, stiff, like a tutorial on cleaning lint out of a dryer vent.
The female MC is the most annoying, hypocritical human I could possibly imagine being stuck with during an apocalypse. She berates a dude for wearing someone else's clothes, but she has no problem scavenging for what she needs, wants, taking a little girl's bracelet, etc. She thinks an education is the litmus test for a persons' character, worth, value. She treats the dead like a science project. Just a retched character. By the second and third books, the chick lightens up, but she does a 180 degree turn and is suddenly a damn badass, shoot em up, kick em in the nuts, let's save the world chick that's just not believable.
The aura thing is lame. Immunity.. Fine, but 1000 yard floating aura that has to play catch-up if she moves to fast.. Come the f on, really?!? I don't have to have some complicated scientific explanation, but the author never even bothered to but R&R to the immunity, aura, nor the shit at the end with the reverse bite (eye roll)! Fantasy is great and all, but the shit should still have some roots, foundation in reality for it not to boggle the brain.
Honey and mint zombie pheromone calling card. F me!
Human bite turns ppl to zombies and zombies to people. Yeah, F me!
The most inept, honorable bad guys you'll ever meet. F me, again!
This is a damn love triangle from HELL!! One minute one dude is saying she's like a sister and bam, wham all of a sudden out of the wild blue he is professing his love and wooing her on horseback while the one she's been with is playing flirty translator for another chick that's acting as his nursemaid. Back and forth we go with the female MC lusting after how good each dude's muscles look & how great each kiss. Then bam, wham it's all solved in one sentence of saying they all three laughed together and everything reverted to as it was where one had a brother role and the other had a lover role. THERE is nothing I hate more than a forced, fabricated love triangle by an author whereby I have to read how f'ing hot, wonderful, lovely, and perfect a female MC thinks a guy is FOR TWO BOOKS only for it all to be mooted by a single sentence of AHHHHHA "he's like my brother!" Nah, I don't rub my ass on my brother's crotch and get tingles! Total waste; total copout!
August 24, 2015
I absolutely loved the way that this trilogy ended. It was a perfect way to end Hellas adventure. I love the way that Karen Carr can put you in the middle of the action. As Hella and her crew were dealing with the issues in the book, I felt like I was right there beside them. Karens style of writing is exactly how I want a book to be written. I am looking forward to the new series that she has coming out, and I cannot wait to devour it. Karen Carr is definitely one of my favorite authors now, and I can't wait to read more of her work.
May 1, 2021
A good solid conclusion to the series. I would have liked it if the epilog was a little longer so I can hear now about what's happening on the world.
August 23, 2015
Here is the spoiler version because I just can't help it.
Some of it felt rushed and you can really tell with the lack of editing. It wasn't enough to turn me away from the book though.
The whole relationship thing with Zeke and Hella, Hella and Huck, Zeke and Rachel ... None of it felt believable. Character development got better through the series but plenty of things happened that seemed to lead nowhere. And many things were unexplained. Like how the mist got dispersed that turned people into zombies? I would be a tad worried about whoever did that. Maybe she's leaving some things for another book or series? And it would have been nice for them to see mace get torn apart by zombies. I feel like he could come back.
So with all this you would think I didn't like the series but I really did. I was able to get lost in the story and just overlook some of the things I didn't like. I read them all back to back and even paid for them. (I'm a library fanatic.) So that says something.
Some of it felt rushed and you can really tell with the lack of editing. It wasn't enough to turn me away from the book though.
The whole relationship thing with Zeke and Hella, Hella and Huck, Zeke and Rachel ... None of it felt believable. Character development got better through the series but plenty of things happened that seemed to lead nowhere. And many things were unexplained. Like how the mist got dispersed that turned people into zombies? I would be a tad worried about whoever did that. Maybe she's leaving some things for another book or series? And it would have been nice for them to see mace get torn apart by zombies. I feel like he could come back.
So with all this you would think I didn't like the series but I really did. I was able to get lost in the story and just overlook some of the things I didn't like. I read them all back to back and even paid for them. (I'm a library fanatic.) So that says something.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 4, 2015
DAWNLAND: THE SERIES
This is a review for the DAWNLAND Series.
This series makes for a very GOOD read.
I recommend it to everyone who enjoys romance, the apocalypse ( in any shape or form), action, adventure , and dashes of humor
Unfortunately, you also have to get past misspellings, missing words, words in the wrong place, Etc. Etc.
If you can see your way around that, then I think you'll really enjoy the story of Hella.
This is a review for the DAWNLAND Series.
This series makes for a very GOOD read.
I recommend it to everyone who enjoys romance, the apocalypse ( in any shape or form), action, adventure , and dashes of humor
Unfortunately, you also have to get past misspellings, missing words, words in the wrong place, Etc. Etc.
If you can see your way around that, then I think you'll really enjoy the story of Hella.
April 8, 2015
Aww man
Ok, I love this series and I'm glad that most of the key players are still in it........ But I'm a little disappointed . The book was slow in the beginning and didn't start to pick up until 62%. I'm sad that it's over and that the people that I wanted together we're not. And the beginning started off horribly with hella being indecisive about guys. Boring After she got over that it was a ok read.
Ok, I love this series and I'm glad that most of the key players are still in it........ But I'm a little disappointed . The book was slow in the beginning and didn't start to pick up until 62%. I'm sad that it's over and that the people that I wanted together we're not. And the beginning started off horribly with hella being indecisive about guys. Boring After she got over that it was a ok read.
August 9, 2015
I have to be honest this ending suprised me. Well I guess I should say Hella's choices supries me. I was glad to see certain characters go. As much as they help the story, it's always a joy for me when they are no longer. They story comes full circle and there is a satisfying conclusion to the story.
However there are some very noticiable editing errors. It was enough to distract me from my reading.
However there are some very noticiable editing errors. It was enough to distract me from my reading.
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March 14, 2015worth reading
I can't talk about this without spoilers but there's no way to hide them on here so I will post my official review on goodreads. If you're into zombie books AND some romance (like me!) then you will enjoy this series.
I can't talk about this without spoilers but there's no way to hide them on here so I will post my official review on goodreads. If you're into zombie books AND some romance (like me!) then you will enjoy this series.
February 1, 2015
It's over.... I wanted more...
August 26, 2015
The first part of the book was good. Then it went slowly yet steadily downhill from there.
February 24, 2015
Ugh the editing. The bad guys are so inept it is almost funny.
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