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Cryos: Whisper Ridge: After the Pulse: Book 2
446 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 2, 2026
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March 27, 2026
I enjoyed this just as much as the first book in the series, maybe even a little more. And romance readers, there is a romance here!
What continues to impress me most about this series is the depth of the characters. In a story that could easily lean on survival alone, the author really takes the time to build out the people at the heart of it. Their relationships, fears, and growth feel real, even as everything around them spirals out of control.
Tropes/themes:
Post-apocalyptic survival
Found family
Man vs nature
Slow-burn (closed door)
Protective hero(es)
Survival against the odds
Moral dilemmas
Isolation
Trust and emotional healing
HFN
Overall, this is a character-driven, post-apocalyptic story with a strong sense of community, layered threats, and a touch of romance. Can’t wait to see what this author brings us next.
What continues to impress me most about this series is the depth of the characters. In a story that could easily lean on survival alone, the author really takes the time to build out the people at the heart of it. Their relationships, fears, and growth feel real, even as everything around them spirals out of control.
Tropes/themes:
Post-apocalyptic survival
Found family
Man vs nature
Slow-burn (closed door)
Protective hero(es)
Survival against the odds
Moral dilemmas
Isolation
Trust and emotional healing
HFN
Overall, this is a character-driven, post-apocalyptic story with a strong sense of community, layered threats, and a touch of romance. Can’t wait to see what this author brings us next.
August 31, 2026
"Mother Nature is off her meds." Always make time for Physical Therapy!!!
8/30/26 Review:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Mother Nature is off her meds." Deception is creeping in from every direction, supplies running thin but always make time for "Physical Therapy"
Cryos: Whisper Ridge: After the Pulse: Book 2 by Sean Liscom is a great addition to his Whisper Ridge series. It's main characters are ones that are easy to follow and get wrapped up into what's coming their way next and how they're going to work their way through. This story is well written, action packed, and suspenseful keeping you on the edge of our seat to see how Mason Ashford along with the rest of his team of Whisper Ridge, a housing development in rural Oregon just outside of Kalama Falls.
Mason with a knack to stand up and take charge in a helpful way that has brought the residents of Whisper Ridge through the first few months of severe weather conditions, murderous gangs, shortage of supplies, food, fuel, and the basic things we take for granted in our current lives. This all becomes a daily struggle in the aftermath of a Solar Flare or CME that has taken out the infrastructure of not only Oregon but world wide.
Now they're having to deal with the changes in the Earth's atmosphere that makes the Laschamp Event that occurred approximately 41,000 to 42,000 were Earth's magnetic field dropped somewhere around 5% to 10% causing all shorts of havoc on the weather worldwide look like a light shift in weather conditions with a small shift in temperatures, light sprinkles, and light dusting of snow. With temperature changes swinging fifty degrees within hours to feet of snow within hours, to lighting and thunder storms so violent they feel like they're in a war zone. And to boot, they have a new group of assholes to deal with called Red Summit Collective and along with the remaining Bone Rats , between the two groups of thugs they want to take everything Whisper Ridge has including their lives but the worst has to be the lack of supplies. It's hell no matter how you look at it. A life without coffee is going to be worse than an eternity in hell. Hell a life without coffee is the definition of hell.
Mason steps up again and makes a deal with the Commanding Officer out of Kingston National Guard Air Base that secures the safety of the residents of Whisper Ridge and in turn helps secure a future for possibly the human race as a whole. With Mother Nature throwing all she has to rid Earth of the human race for the distraction we have wreaked and the ruthless thugs that want everything for themselves, Mason, Tessa, Lisa, Elijah, Colin, and the rest of Whisper Ridge have their hands full.
I have found this book and the previous book really enjoyable and they have definitely held my interest throughout and once I finish this review, I am going to continue with the third book in this series. I highly recommend this book and the first book to anyone who enjoys a great storyline, full of action and the logistics it takes to run a small community in the end of the world as we know it scenario that is unique from most I have read so far, and well written cast of characters. Hell at times, this book will have you laughing as well as it will touch your heart a little with the interaction between the main characters.
Quotes:
"Navy gets cockblocked by the Army.”
8/30/26 Review:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Mother Nature is off her meds." Deception is creeping in from every direction, supplies running thin but always make time for "Physical Therapy"
Cryos: Whisper Ridge: After the Pulse: Book 2 by Sean Liscom is a great addition to his Whisper Ridge series. It's main characters are ones that are easy to follow and get wrapped up into what's coming their way next and how they're going to work their way through. This story is well written, action packed, and suspenseful keeping you on the edge of our seat to see how Mason Ashford along with the rest of his team of Whisper Ridge, a housing development in rural Oregon just outside of Kalama Falls.
Mason with a knack to stand up and take charge in a helpful way that has brought the residents of Whisper Ridge through the first few months of severe weather conditions, murderous gangs, shortage of supplies, food, fuel, and the basic things we take for granted in our current lives. This all becomes a daily struggle in the aftermath of a Solar Flare or CME that has taken out the infrastructure of not only Oregon but world wide.
Now they're having to deal with the changes in the Earth's atmosphere that makes the Laschamp Event that occurred approximately 41,000 to 42,000 were Earth's magnetic field dropped somewhere around 5% to 10% causing all shorts of havoc on the weather worldwide look like a light shift in weather conditions with a small shift in temperatures, light sprinkles, and light dusting of snow. With temperature changes swinging fifty degrees within hours to feet of snow within hours, to lighting and thunder storms so violent they feel like they're in a war zone. And to boot, they have a new group of assholes to deal with called Red Summit Collective and along with the remaining Bone Rats , between the two groups of thugs they want to take everything Whisper Ridge has including their lives but the worst has to be the lack of supplies. It's hell no matter how you look at it. A life without coffee is going to be worse than an eternity in hell. Hell a life without coffee is the definition of hell.
Mason steps up again and makes a deal with the Commanding Officer out of Kingston National Guard Air Base that secures the safety of the residents of Whisper Ridge and in turn helps secure a future for possibly the human race as a whole. With Mother Nature throwing all she has to rid Earth of the human race for the distraction we have wreaked and the ruthless thugs that want everything for themselves, Mason, Tessa, Lisa, Elijah, Colin, and the rest of Whisper Ridge have their hands full.
I have found this book and the previous book really enjoyable and they have definitely held my interest throughout and once I finish this review, I am going to continue with the third book in this series. I highly recommend this book and the first book to anyone who enjoys a great storyline, full of action and the logistics it takes to run a small community in the end of the world as we know it scenario that is unique from most I have read so far, and well written cast of characters. Hell at times, this book will have you laughing as well as it will touch your heart a little with the interaction between the main characters.
Quotes:
"Navy gets cockblocked by the Army.”
April 8, 2026
This is shaping into another awesome series, bring on book 3
March 6, 2026
As if a catastrophic CME wasn't bad enough for Whisper Ridge...
Cryos: Whisper Ridge, After The Pulse book 2, continues the saga of Mason Ashford and the residents of Whisper Ridge after the attack by the Bone Rats and getting hammered by winter weather. The CME was just the beginning, the entire climate is going crazy and that's not the worst of it! The writing is of the caliber anyone familiar with Sean Liscom from his 'The Ranch' and 'Feral Outbreak' will recognize and appreciate, though I must say that After The Pulse is Liscom's best series to date so far. The additional environmental factors also place the series in a category of its own as its no longer just a post-CME survival thriller. This series will be devoured by fans of apocalyptic survival thrillers! Overall, 5/5 stars, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys survival thrillers and well written thrillers in general!
Cryos: Whisper Ridge, After The Pulse book 2, continues the saga of Mason Ashford and the residents of Whisper Ridge after the attack by the Bone Rats and getting hammered by winter weather. The CME was just the beginning, the entire climate is going crazy and that's not the worst of it! The writing is of the caliber anyone familiar with Sean Liscom from his 'The Ranch' and 'Feral Outbreak' will recognize and appreciate, though I must say that After The Pulse is Liscom's best series to date so far. The additional environmental factors also place the series in a category of its own as its no longer just a post-CME survival thriller. This series will be devoured by fans of apocalyptic survival thrillers! Overall, 5/5 stars, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys survival thrillers and well written thrillers in general!
March 21, 2026
Series is a hit!
Now total unpredictability! Surprises galore. Who are the good guys and. Who are the bad? Those Volcanoes are going to be problems!
Now total unpredictability! Surprises galore. Who are the good guys and. Who are the bad? Those Volcanoes are going to be problems!
March 29, 2026
Double standards galore...
Such a shame.
The first book was so good. A plausible apocalyptic event, based on real science. An apocalypse which doesn't outright kill 999‰...
People who remain mostly sane.
Well, Mr Liscom decided that things weren't bad enough, so he involves the very real Laschamps geomagnetic excursion. Which the people who discovered it wouldn't recognise...
He decides that not only have the US military survived intact, they have seemingly endless resourses. The explaination isn't convincing, and the logistics are downright implausible.
And surely the military in any country are supposed to help their own citizens?
This tale is not exceptional, it follows the usual themes and clichés.
When the good guys and the bad guys do the same deeds, you have to pay attention to know if the deeds are good or bad...
And Mason, the Main Character, continues to repeat himself, several times in the same conversation, whenever he wants to get his point through. May I point out that he was never elected leader?
Everyone, including most of the bad guys, are so sexually repressed that it's embarrassing.
And we can already guess how many more millions, nay, billions, of innocent people will be killed off in the next book...
Such a shame.
The first book was so good. A plausible apocalyptic event, based on real science. An apocalypse which doesn't outright kill 999‰...
People who remain mostly sane.
Well, Mr Liscom decided that things weren't bad enough, so he involves the very real Laschamps geomagnetic excursion. Which the people who discovered it wouldn't recognise...
He decides that not only have the US military survived intact, they have seemingly endless resourses. The explaination isn't convincing, and the logistics are downright implausible.
And surely the military in any country are supposed to help their own citizens?
This tale is not exceptional, it follows the usual themes and clichés.
When the good guys and the bad guys do the same deeds, you have to pay attention to know if the deeds are good or bad...
And Mason, the Main Character, continues to repeat himself, several times in the same conversation, whenever he wants to get his point through. May I point out that he was never elected leader?
Everyone, including most of the bad guys, are so sexually repressed that it's embarrassing.
And we can already guess how many more millions, nay, billions, of innocent people will be killed off in the next book...
April 8, 2026
The Best Way type of Book
My kind of read. Good adventure, with a good hearty dose of pulling together, friendship, and mixed with problems and scares to overcome. I’m not satisfied with the end however, unless it leads to either book #3 or a carrying on in am resolve the questions posed by the ending
My kind of read. Good adventure, with a good hearty dose of pulling together, friendship, and mixed with problems and scares to overcome. I’m not satisfied with the end however, unless it leads to either book #3 or a carrying on in am resolve the questions posed by the ending
July 25, 2026
as real as it can get
We all know Mother Nature rampages now and again but in this story she is going thru menopause and taking it out on everyone determine to survive. With an intuitive leader, Whisper Ridge fares better than most anywhere else once the military come to their rescue, but still, without their leader it would all be worse until it actually is.
We all know Mother Nature rampages now and again but in this story she is going thru menopause and taking it out on everyone determine to survive. With an intuitive leader, Whisper Ridge fares better than most anywhere else once the military come to their rescue, but still, without their leader it would all be worse until it actually is.
August 24, 2026
Great character development!
I've really been enjoying this series so far. I didn't know about the magnetic field around earth they discussed, actually a lot of the science is fairly new to me, but it is well explained and very interesting.
But my favorite part is the great character development. Exciting and well written plot lines.
I've really been enjoying this series so far. I didn't know about the magnetic field around earth they discussed, actually a lot of the science is fairly new to me, but it is well explained and very interesting.
But my favorite part is the great character development. Exciting and well written plot lines.
September 5, 2026
Trouble, we got trouble!
If it isn’t one thing, it’s another! But the lead actors now have professed their love, in long passages, and if it comes that, they will die happy. Yet, each has a major role in what’s to come and if no more cliches intervene, there’s a happy ending heading our way. Will it go beyond 3 books?
If it isn’t one thing, it’s another! But the lead actors now have professed their love, in long passages, and if it comes that, they will die happy. Yet, each has a major role in what’s to come and if no more cliches intervene, there’s a happy ending heading our way. Will it go beyond 3 books?
March 23, 2026
After The Pulse, book 2, was another exciting book in this series. The storyline continues to keep you hooked along with great characters. Definitely recommend you start reading. Can't wait for the next one.
May 2, 2026
Finally a new take on TEOTWAWKI
The concept is a fresh take on the CME theme. Character development is also top-notch. I identify with and care about the main characters, and that is usually something that suffers in the apocalyptic fiction genre.
The concept is a fresh take on the CME theme. Character development is also top-notch. I identify with and care about the main characters, and that is usually something that suffers in the apocalyptic fiction genre.
July 7, 2026
Great series
I'm really looking forward to reading all of the books in this series never gets boring something's always happening. I think anybody that likes these type of stories will love this book series first time I've read this author won't be the last time
I'm really looking forward to reading all of the books in this series never gets boring something's always happening. I think anybody that likes these type of stories will love this book series first time I've read this author won't be the last time
August 21, 2026
Marvelous Story
Loved the story, loved the characters, the plot twists, loved the love thread, and I loved the ending which has me staying up late again to see what's going to happen next. Can anything else go wrong? I'm awed but the author's imagination.
Loved the story, loved the characters, the plot twists, loved the love thread, and I loved the ending which has me staying up late again to see what's going to happen next. Can anything else go wrong? I'm awed but the author's imagination.
August 23, 2026
Great second book
The author was able to build on his strong first book and has really carried the story on and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. I’m heading to book 3 now to see where the story continues.
The author was able to build on his strong first book and has really carried the story on and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. I’m heading to book 3 now to see where the story continues.
September 17, 2026
Great book
I have been reading a number of these END OF THE WORLD books, and this is the best of them. Complex plotting, characters and the writing is strong, clean and adult. I'm hoping #3 is not the end. 🌹 Burns McDade
I have been reading a number of these END OF THE WORLD books, and this is the best of them. Complex plotting, characters and the writing is strong, clean and adult. I'm hoping #3 is not the end. 🌹 Burns McDade
March 4, 2026
Excellent
Just finished it...SO GOOD. I do love a good end of the world tale. Once again you knocked it out of the park
Just finished it...SO GOOD. I do love a good end of the world tale. Once again you knocked it out of the park
March 15, 2026
good read
Sean Liscom makes for interesting reading. Loved these two books and will be looking forward to the next book I hope won’t be far behind.
Sean Liscom makes for interesting reading. Loved these two books and will be looking forward to the next book I hope won’t be far behind.
May 10, 2026
Pretty good apocalyptic book
It was a 4 star for new type apocalypse books. Newer ideas. Interesting characters. Some twists and turns unique. Ok book to pass time.
It was a 4 star for new type apocalypse books. Newer ideas. Interesting characters. Some twists and turns unique. Ok book to pass time.
May 31, 2026
cannot put down!
I’ve lost sleep over not being able to put this book down! GOOD! One of the best books I’ve read in a long time!
I’ve lost sleep over not being able to put this book down! GOOD! One of the best books I’ve read in a long time!
July 9, 2026
Loving this series
I love the plot. I love the sub plots. I love the characters. I love the writing. This is just a great series.!
I love the plot. I love the sub plots. I love the characters. I love the writing. This is just a great series.!
August 14, 2026
Not so much action in this Whisper Ridge Book 2, a little boring. I read the series "The Ranch" and way more interesting. I just opened Whisper Ridge Book 3 and hoping its more interesting.....
September 11, 2026
Great characters and plot that has plenty of twists to keep you interested from start to finish. Ready for the next episode.
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