Solar Winter: An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller

by Colton Lively

A solar researcher discovers a massive flare racing toward Earth but leaders silence her warning. When the blast wipes out power and chaos erupts, she must outrun a collapsing world to reach her loved ones before the darkness brings something far worse.

290 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2025

Reviews

[Sharon Zink · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is much like another book I recently read, When the Lights Never Came Back, by Marie Wilkins. There were three characters who survived a solar anomaly, and the main character was a woman. One of them gets wounded but survives. The people in Solar Winter set out from Seattle to travel to Virginia. According to the book, they complete the journey in less than fifty days. Seems preposterous. They cross either the Mississippi or the Missouri on a homemade raft; they cross the other river through a tunnel underneath. One of them gets captured and wounded, and the other two go on. BUT the captured one finds himself back in Billings. How is this possible? Did the author stop writing in the middle of the book, and when he came back, he forgot where his characters were? The book was full of the sense of smell: something smelled like moss, or iron, or wet wood. I don't know how those things smell. The book had too many chapters. Many of them started in the morning and ended at night. Usually something out of the humdrum happens in every chapter. There was dialog, but none of it was very meaningful. We are never told or even given a hint about the characters' pasts, particularly the two less minor characters. They are never fleshed out. This book leaves much to be desired.

[Betty · Rating 5 out of 5]

The journey home

After trying to inform people about a spoken flare , the scientist friend to head home. This book is different than many other Apocalypse novels in the journey home..This author give a similar yet differ plot.

[Connie Nealy · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it.

Loved the strong female lead. Connected with all the characters so easily. It’s such a believable story. So much saying that I was surprised the TV was on as I was reading. This is definitely a must read. Enjoy the journey from what’s on the country to the other.

[kathy may · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

This book is intense and I read it in a day. It is well written and the details are great. Thanks to the author for sharing this story.