Bled Dry

Oil Apocalypse #3

by Lou Cadle

The enemies holding Payson have attacked. Retaliation is inevitable.

Sierra's tactical brainstorm leads the neighborhoods to Payson in a surprise attack. Sierra, Dev, and the others need to liberate those under the control of the brutal invaders to guarantee their own safety. The numbers are against them. The stakes are high. And it has to be done now.

Can our heroes survive the end of oil?

Genres: Post Apocalyptic, Apocalyptic, Audiobook

263 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2017

About the author

Lou Cadle grew up in Tornado Alley near the New Madrid fault, was in San Francisco's 1989 earthquake, watched minor eruptions of Mt. St. Helens from close up, and hiked several times over Kilauea's active lava flows. Cadle currently lives in haboob country.

Reviews

[Teresa Bunn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was expecting more survival innovation and planning, not so much battle. WAY too much time dedicated to the fighting and battle strategy. Sorry, could have been better.

[Sasch Stormcloak · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best book in the series so far in terms of character evolution. Pretty much the whole book is concerned with liberating the town of Payson and interacting with the townsfolk still held as prisoners there. Then novel is full of action while we follow Sierra, Dev and their group in their fight for eliminating the invader thread door by door. Sierra takes on a more prominent role, and is the most evolving character, from the teenager anxious to engage in combat we see at the end of book #2 to a woman who realizes the horrors of a war that no one wanted. Then there’s the relationship between her and Dev, which at first might seem the typical teenage love story, but which turns out to be different this time, at least for now.
Overall, another great book with a quite plausible future scenario where oil has completely run out.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoying the series, but I'm a little disappointed that Cadle basically sidelines all the male characters in the book to relatively light injuries, bar one. Dev seems on the verge of death from a broken glass cut requiring only two stitches. I get he had a concussion a couple days prior, but I've had more than a few and that just seemed waaaay over the top. Not to mention the two dads, one a certified hardass, just stay behind and play the pining spouse waiting at home for their warrior women to return from battle. I don't mind making Sierra a badass, rather like it, but it seems like the men were intentionally kneecapped in the plot here. Could have been a little more well rounded story with the other characters Cadle spent time developing in book 1 and 2.

[Todd Charlton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most of Bled Dry, is concerned with the liberation of Payson. There is much tension in this outing, the third in the Oil Apocalypse series.
It's good writing. The reader doesn't get a break as our heroes fight the invaders.
Sierra does something for which she feels eternally guilty. Eventually she tells her father, who swears her to secrecy. I for one don't think it all that bad, but perhaps in the situation our protagonists find themselves, it is.
I'm not sure but I think this was going to be the end of the series. This book does end on a note where we could say goodbye, but Lou Cadle wrote two more.
On to the next installment.

[Barbara Morrell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one’s kinda meh, compared to the others

I’ve bought and read all three books. Loved the first two. Book three, though, I only skimmed through a good 50% of it. Why? It was a long, detailed house-to-house/person battle that, while well written, could’ve appeared in just about any book. Lost track of what the characters were doing because I just didn’t care to read the blow by blow descriptions. The beginning and end had heart, and the emphasis was on survival. Not fighting survival but everyday survival of limited resources and fending off despair.

[Miss Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

My least favourite in an enjoyable series.

The author has a knack for keeping track of characters' thoughts and movements since you saw them last, which can make for some intricate layers but also needs reining in as it can bog the story if indulged too much as it unfortunately was in this book. Overly descriptive of every little task and detail which stifles the action. You can empathise with sierra at the end but I thought the series could have left this book out and been no worse off.

[Debbie Poole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oil Apocalypse

If I could give this more stars l would, l read all three love the characters, there strength,compassion, and true bravery in a very messed up world.l am looking forward to the future books on how they are doing and where there life's go.this was a series that was hard to end,please write more on these family's, l will be waiting.

[Pam Shelton-Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

There was a little more balance of the characters and less of the Sierra show which was nice. Poor Devlin was sidelined the last book and nearly so on this one. Fortunately, Kelly had a bigger part. This was mostly one large battle but was fairly interesting.

[shawn murphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bled Dry book 3 in Lou Cadle’s oil Apocalypse series, plenty of bad people trying to hurt and steal as lawlessness abounds.
Young people are not given a chance to be kids as they are thrust into do or die scenarios.

[Joe Hansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Top notch

I am becoming a big fan of this author. First with the gray and now this... Excellent work on both

[Purple Witch · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a solid 3.75⭐️ but the end made it a 5 for me.