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Beyond Here Lies Nothing
The war lasted twenty-six minutes and seventeen seconds.
Two centuries later, most of the continent is an uninhabitable wasteland. What’s left belongs to the Coalition, who rode out the nuclear winter in bunkers and emerged to launch an endless resource war.
Lily has always been fighting – struggling to survive, and to atone for a mistake that cost thousands of people their lives.
Desperate for a second chance, she sets out to find a fabled city on seven hills somewhere beyond the western mountains, but her quest is derailed when she saves the life of a deserter with dangerous enemies and a deadly secret – one the Coalition will stop at nothing to suppress.
Dragged into the conflict she tried to escape and faced with the loss of everything she holds dear, Lily is forced to decide whether the future she wants is worth fighting for – and what price she is willing to pay to obtain it.
Two centuries later, most of the continent is an uninhabitable wasteland. What’s left belongs to the Coalition, who rode out the nuclear winter in bunkers and emerged to launch an endless resource war.
Lily has always been fighting – struggling to survive, and to atone for a mistake that cost thousands of people their lives.
Desperate for a second chance, she sets out to find a fabled city on seven hills somewhere beyond the western mountains, but her quest is derailed when she saves the life of a deserter with dangerous enemies and a deadly secret – one the Coalition will stop at nothing to suppress.
Dragged into the conflict she tried to escape and faced with the loss of everything she holds dear, Lily is forced to decide whether the future she wants is worth fighting for – and what price she is willing to pay to obtain it.
345 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 28, 2015
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September 11, 2015
Beyond Here Lies Nothing pays heavy homage to the Fallout Series of video games. The author acknowledges this by quoting Fallout New Vegas at the beginning of the book, so the reader can expect an experience that delivers the adventure and tragedy of wandering the wasteland.
The story follows protagonist Lily on her search for the fabled Haven, a promised land of sorts. Along the way she stumbles upon Operative 74, a deserter on the run from the Coalition. The Coalition is the big, bad military expansionist power intent on usurping the surrounding independent and fertile lands. The two are polar opposites but form an uneasy alliance in order to survive the dangers of the wastes.
The book picks up steam after it lays down the ground work of the story, and shapes up to be a real page-turner about friendship, love, survival and personal freedom vs. communal living. The prose and writing style are rock solid. The only potential flaw I feel may be the characters get stuck in different places longer than I wanted them to...mild sagging middle, but that may not be perceived as a flaw to other readers.
Beyond Here Lies Nothing is highly recommended for fans of the post-apocalyptic genre, especially if you appreciate Fallout.
The story follows protagonist Lily on her search for the fabled Haven, a promised land of sorts. Along the way she stumbles upon Operative 74, a deserter on the run from the Coalition. The Coalition is the big, bad military expansionist power intent on usurping the surrounding independent and fertile lands. The two are polar opposites but form an uneasy alliance in order to survive the dangers of the wastes.
The book picks up steam after it lays down the ground work of the story, and shapes up to be a real page-turner about friendship, love, survival and personal freedom vs. communal living. The prose and writing style are rock solid. The only potential flaw I feel may be the characters get stuck in different places longer than I wanted them to...mild sagging middle, but that may not be perceived as a flaw to other readers.
Beyond Here Lies Nothing is highly recommended for fans of the post-apocalyptic genre, especially if you appreciate Fallout.
November 17, 2015
A very satisfying Read in the Post-Apocalyptic/TEOTWAWKI genre
Lee Guthrie's debut novel, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, kept me reading well into the night and wanting more. Her protagonist Lily was a well-thought-out and well-flushed-out heroine. And her character Michael/74 'raised' to be an unemotional "Operative" emerges as an engaging presence worthy of this reader's interest throughout the novel. If you enjoy this specific genre (i.e., post-apoc + No zombies) you'd be well-advised to give Guthrie's BHLN a try.
Lee Guthrie's debut novel, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, kept me reading well into the night and wanting more. Her protagonist Lily was a well-thought-out and well-flushed-out heroine. And her character Michael/74 'raised' to be an unemotional "Operative" emerges as an engaging presence worthy of this reader's interest throughout the novel. If you enjoy this specific genre (i.e., post-apoc + No zombies) you'd be well-advised to give Guthrie's BHLN a try.
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