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Surrender the Sun #1-3
Surrender the Sun Boxset #1-3
The complete three book series of Surrender the Sun in one convenient boxset of apocalyptic, dystopian chaos: Over 600 pages of action and suspense. THREE BOOKS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!
Bishop's Honor
Sanctuary
Point of No Return
Surrender the Sun:
When the Snow Hits the Fan.
Because it happened once before and it will happen again. In the Year 2030 the Maunder Minimum, a period of solar inactivity, will cause a mini-ice age like it did between the years 1645 and 1710. When it does, Bishop will have to save her not only from the effects of severe weather but also from man himself.
Bishop's Honor
Sanctuary
Point of No Return
Surrender the Sun:
When the Snow Hits the Fan.
Because it happened once before and it will happen again. In the Year 2030 the Maunder Minimum, a period of solar inactivity, will cause a mini-ice age like it did between the years 1645 and 1710. When it does, Bishop will have to save her not only from the effects of severe weather but also from man himself.
503 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 25, 2018
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December 5, 2019
This series was good but I felt it ended abruptly. Even still, good apocalyptic story.
June 30, 2022
Surrender the Sun boxset is one of the few post-apocalyptic stories I’ve read/listened to that is based on a natural weather occurrence instead of a war or zombie inducting pandemic. To be honest, while I enjoy the zombie-based series, Surrender the Sun made me think about what could happen should we be faced with a mini-ice age. Along with a plausible story line, A. R. Shaw has created a cast of characters who are not only easy to identify with but have very human flaws and failings which make them even more believable. When I finished listening to the third book, I was thinking how I hoped there would be at least one more book just to follow these characters for a bit longer. Today I saw in A.R. Shaw’s newsletter that the fourth book may be out in August. Kevin Pierce does an excellent job of not just telling the story but bringing every character to life.
October 17, 2019
This is one of those books you hate to end! A.R. Shaw brings to life her characters as Bishop, Maeve and Ben struggle to survive after a fast onset mini ice age brings about the apocalypse. Bishop, an army veteran, comes to the aide of widowed Maeve and young son Ben as well as becoming the leader of a group of survivors. This is a story of the hardships faced, friendships made and enemies fought and when it is over, you feel like you are loosing friends.
March 27, 2021
Fascinating take on how the weather can change us and our relationships. Kept me glued. I re-read parts for several days to make sure I had captured the characters and circumstances correctly. I wished it had a stronger ending but all in all kept my attention. There were some inconsistencies and proofread errors but if you go beyond that it was entertaining.
January 23, 2019
I enjoyed this book about a mini-ice age, particularly as scientist are warning us about the possibility now and, just as in the book, we are not listening. I also had the audio narration which was well done.
March 2, 2019
Funny in a way
I only finished the first volume and gave up. I was going to give this three stars then two stars but as I analysed the story, I had to admit that it is a one star effort. The writing style is decent but it just emphasizes the implausible science, the lack of character development, contradictions in character behavior and plot holes.
The main character (who is a veteran, with no climatology or astrophysics background) knows that the world is going to experience an ice age within about forty-eight hours or so. A local luxury hotel manager (who is a drug dealer, pimp and Jack of all criminal activity but not a climatologist, or astronomer) also knows that the ice age is starting in the next few days. The MC's love interest is unwilling to fire a gun to save herself and two children from known killers, who have promised rape then murder for her and her child but is reluctantly willing to let a tall, dark stranger teach her six year old son to fire a rifle, so that he can protect his mommy (no moral, religious reason given except maybe that she's a girl?). There is little more to learn about these three and even less about the other characters in the book.
The main character mentions the Maunder (or Prolonged Sunspot) Minimum (~1645 to 1715) and the Little Ice Age (there are several starting date choices:1250 -Atlantic ice grows, 1300 -warm summers not reliable in Northern Europe, 1315 - continuous rains & Great Famine - European, 1550 - theoretical start of glacial expansion, 1650 - climactic minimum. Start dates vary but it ends in the mid 1800's) which as you can see, are not identical. He claims he realized/expected decreased sunspot activity did/would cause the first cold snap to announce a global catastrophe. He then used the Little Ice Age as his example of what he expects? Look at the above dates and/or look up both on Wikipedia for a fairly fast (Intetesting) read. At best the MC predicted the ice age 300 to 400 years leading up to the story's start or the terms Maunder Minimum and Little Ice Age are both known to the writer as names only. Either is a shame.
I'm not trying or succeeding at being an ass. I looked up and read good a Wiki article on each, several times in just five minutes. I had read of the Little Ice Age before (fascinating to my inner geek) but didn't exactly remember the Sunspot Minimum he uses but knew that no reported Minimum cycle corresponded to this 500 to 600 year climate event. That kind of wrecked the premise for me. The writer further thinks that one fine fall day, it will start to snow and 100, 500, 1500 or 3000 years of winter begins with no warning. That's not how weather patterns work, even I know that. How have two otherwise unremarkable characters, who have nothing in their background to explain it, both tumbled to this strange understanding of Sunspot Activity, the ages of glaciation, and the rest, as well as having created models of global weather patterns well enough that they were predictive. Further they are both decisive enough to act on their knowledge, immediately. Cool?
The story was wrecked for me already but the writer goes into a song and dance about climate change being a natural cycle (True) and having no connection to man-made global warming (Not true). He also dismissed global warming as having climatic impact (Nuts and I'm sensing a political position unneeded in the story. The writer could have just gone with the whacky premise, there was no need to pretend to expertise and then trash real science. The writer must own a lot of Exxon or BP stock and have no children he cares about. Even with that as a given, It's stupid writing.
The book has no characters worth reading, is based on junk science, repudiates the real science behind global warming?, expects women to accept protection from six year old boys because they're males, damaged veterans and mafiosa have an excellent understanding of arcane science and the rest is why bother, It's the end of the world.
I only finished the first volume and gave up. I was going to give this three stars then two stars but as I analysed the story, I had to admit that it is a one star effort. The writing style is decent but it just emphasizes the implausible science, the lack of character development, contradictions in character behavior and plot holes.
The main character (who is a veteran, with no climatology or astrophysics background) knows that the world is going to experience an ice age within about forty-eight hours or so. A local luxury hotel manager (who is a drug dealer, pimp and Jack of all criminal activity but not a climatologist, or astronomer) also knows that the ice age is starting in the next few days. The MC's love interest is unwilling to fire a gun to save herself and two children from known killers, who have promised rape then murder for her and her child but is reluctantly willing to let a tall, dark stranger teach her six year old son to fire a rifle, so that he can protect his mommy (no moral, religious reason given except maybe that she's a girl?). There is little more to learn about these three and even less about the other characters in the book.
The main character mentions the Maunder (or Prolonged Sunspot) Minimum (~1645 to 1715) and the Little Ice Age (there are several starting date choices:1250 -Atlantic ice grows, 1300 -warm summers not reliable in Northern Europe, 1315 - continuous rains & Great Famine - European, 1550 - theoretical start of glacial expansion, 1650 - climactic minimum. Start dates vary but it ends in the mid 1800's) which as you can see, are not identical. He claims he realized/expected decreased sunspot activity did/would cause the first cold snap to announce a global catastrophe. He then used the Little Ice Age as his example of what he expects? Look at the above dates and/or look up both on Wikipedia for a fairly fast (Intetesting) read. At best the MC predicted the ice age 300 to 400 years leading up to the story's start or the terms Maunder Minimum and Little Ice Age are both known to the writer as names only. Either is a shame.
I'm not trying or succeeding at being an ass. I looked up and read good a Wiki article on each, several times in just five minutes. I had read of the Little Ice Age before (fascinating to my inner geek) but didn't exactly remember the Sunspot Minimum he uses but knew that no reported Minimum cycle corresponded to this 500 to 600 year climate event. That kind of wrecked the premise for me. The writer further thinks that one fine fall day, it will start to snow and 100, 500, 1500 or 3000 years of winter begins with no warning. That's not how weather patterns work, even I know that. How have two otherwise unremarkable characters, who have nothing in their background to explain it, both tumbled to this strange understanding of Sunspot Activity, the ages of glaciation, and the rest, as well as having created models of global weather patterns well enough that they were predictive. Further they are both decisive enough to act on their knowledge, immediately. Cool?
The story was wrecked for me already but the writer goes into a song and dance about climate change being a natural cycle (True) and having no connection to man-made global warming (Not true). He also dismissed global warming as having climatic impact (Nuts and I'm sensing a political position unneeded in the story. The writer could have just gone with the whacky premise, there was no need to pretend to expertise and then trash real science. The writer must own a lot of Exxon or BP stock and have no children he cares about. Even with that as a given, It's stupid writing.
The book has no characters worth reading, is based on junk science, repudiates the real science behind global warming?, expects women to accept protection from six year old boys because they're males, damaged veterans and mafiosa have an excellent understanding of arcane science and the rest is why bother, It's the end of the world.
December 6, 2023
Surrender the Sun Boxset #1-3
A.R. Shaw
Thank you to A.R. Shaw for a copy of Surrender the Sun. It is an honor to review this trilogy.
This is a post-apocalyptic tale that is focused on a natural weather occurrence known as a Maunder Minimum, it is a period of time when there is a decrease in solar activity. The last occurrence was approximately 1645 to 1715.
The snow begins.
The weather was unusually cold for the month of October. Maeve is a widow, her husband died in the line of duty about a year before this tale picks up. She and her son Ben live in a rather isolated area. Bishop is an army veteran he knows an ice age is going to arrive in the next 48 hours. He has been keeping an eye on Maeve and her son while her husband was gone, he does this from a distance without her knowing it. As temperatures dropped, he left firewood stacked by the front door. He tried to anticipate their needs. Eventually he made himself known to the young widow and Ben. He came to love them both and knew they were his family.
As the weather worsens so do the actions of some people. A nearby hotel/spa is taken over by a gang of thugs. They ruled the townspeople taking all they had and leaving them to suffer from starvation. Bishop rode to the rescue. He and a group of men fought the thugs and removed them from the hotel. Life wasn’t easy but the people taking shelter in the hotel were warm and fed.
The plot in this tale demonstrates the way people react to dire circumstances. Some people have compassion, show leadership qualities, care about the people around them, while others see greed and try to profit from the situation. When the people formed a community and strived to work together they were more successful. Some of the actions were terrifying such as the woman that turned to cannibalism. I noticed one reviewer mentioned teaching a six-year-old how to fire a rifle and seemed to disagree with the action. In a time of chaos, the child was better off knowing how to protect his family.
The characters in this book are realistic; none of them are perfect, they all have flaws. It was fascinating watching the characters as they changed/matured from book 1 to 3. I enjoy post-apocalyptic books. This trilogy does not disappoint. Kudos to A.R. Shaw.
A.R. Shaw
Thank you to A.R. Shaw for a copy of Surrender the Sun. It is an honor to review this trilogy.
This is a post-apocalyptic tale that is focused on a natural weather occurrence known as a Maunder Minimum, it is a period of time when there is a decrease in solar activity. The last occurrence was approximately 1645 to 1715.
The snow begins.
The weather was unusually cold for the month of October. Maeve is a widow, her husband died in the line of duty about a year before this tale picks up. She and her son Ben live in a rather isolated area. Bishop is an army veteran he knows an ice age is going to arrive in the next 48 hours. He has been keeping an eye on Maeve and her son while her husband was gone, he does this from a distance without her knowing it. As temperatures dropped, he left firewood stacked by the front door. He tried to anticipate their needs. Eventually he made himself known to the young widow and Ben. He came to love them both and knew they were his family.
As the weather worsens so do the actions of some people. A nearby hotel/spa is taken over by a gang of thugs. They ruled the townspeople taking all they had and leaving them to suffer from starvation. Bishop rode to the rescue. He and a group of men fought the thugs and removed them from the hotel. Life wasn’t easy but the people taking shelter in the hotel were warm and fed.
The plot in this tale demonstrates the way people react to dire circumstances. Some people have compassion, show leadership qualities, care about the people around them, while others see greed and try to profit from the situation. When the people formed a community and strived to work together they were more successful. Some of the actions were terrifying such as the woman that turned to cannibalism. I noticed one reviewer mentioned teaching a six-year-old how to fire a rifle and seemed to disagree with the action. In a time of chaos, the child was better off knowing how to protect his family.
The characters in this book are realistic; none of them are perfect, they all have flaws. It was fascinating watching the characters as they changed/matured from book 1 to 3. I enjoy post-apocalyptic books. This trilogy does not disappoint. Kudos to A.R. Shaw.
September 3, 2023
All three books in this set are great. The story is compelling and the characters and plot developments are interesting. I like the first book the best, and that is largely because after the first book, more and more characters are introduced and it can sometimes be a bit confusing to remember where the character we are following is at any given point in the story. The style of switching whose point of view we are seeing the story from in each chapter has never been my favorite. Especially near the end of the 3rd book, there were very short chapters (sometimes just a few paragraphs long), each following any one of 5 or 6 characters, each in a different situation, and a different place and it felt kind of whiplash-y to me. I still enjoyed all three stories, that is just a personal dislike of my own so anyone who doesn't have a problem with that style would probably rate book 3 specifically higher than I did. That being said, disaster and dystopian stories are my favorite genres and these stories encompass both beautifully.
October 29, 2019
It had potential, it was a good different take on a post apocalypse story but, it was treated like the cliff notes version of what could have been a more robust trilogy. Too much jumping around and too many gaps and at the end, it was like the Authors decided to just wrap things up quickly...too bad they didn’t invest in flushing out the story more...could have been a really good series. Still, it was a fun quick read and I can’t say don’t read it, it wasn’t awful...just don’t expect a lot of depth.
December 9, 2020
I loved this whole series...right up to the last few pages! So much left unanswered. It was like the author thought “I’m sick of this and time to end this NOW “
I would have loved giving this a 5 star, that’s how much I loved it!! But unless the author does one more book, and I hope she can, to fill in the years and the lives of the riveting characters that I grew to love...then my 1star shall remain.
I would have loved giving this a 5 star, that’s how much I loved it!! But unless the author does one more book, and I hope she can, to fill in the years and the lives of the riveting characters that I grew to love...then my 1star shall remain.
May 21, 2023
So realistic you will want a blanket while reading
Amazing story that is so real it will make you shiver. AR Shaw has done it again, taken a world we know and cast us into a possible future that is both scary and so realistic. While this is a work of fiction, I might just be adding a few items to my stockpile of supplies. This is no far out science fiction, but something that feels a little to real.
Amazing story that is so real it will make you shiver. AR Shaw has done it again, taken a world we know and cast us into a possible future that is both scary and so realistic. While this is a work of fiction, I might just be adding a few items to my stockpile of supplies. This is no far out science fiction, but something that feels a little to real.
July 20, 2023
Great story, and character development. I liked the references to the Maunder Minimum, and the scientific basis for the apocalyptic ice age. It was a gritty, realistic take on the decisions that would need to be made, as well as on human nature. Note that there is some swearing in this book series; but it’s not egregious. That is why I dropped the overall rating by one star. I received a free copy of this audiobook, with no obligation.
May 21, 2023
So realistic you will feel the chill.
Amazing story that is so real it will make you shiver. AR Shaw has done it again, taken a world we know and cast us into a possible future that is both scary and so realistic. While this is a work of fiction, I might just be adding a few items to my stockpile of supplies. This is no far out science fiction, but something that feels a little to real.
Amazing story that is so real it will make you shiver. AR Shaw has done it again, taken a world we know and cast us into a possible future that is both scary and so realistic. While this is a work of fiction, I might just be adding a few items to my stockpile of supplies. This is no far out science fiction, but something that feels a little to real.
March 20, 2019
Another captivating series
I loved this trilogy...I gobbled it up...read when I could and listened when I couldn’t. I think that the most satisfying aspects are the complex and relatable characters set in a just-believable-enough apocalypse. It’s terrifying and thrilling.
I loved this trilogy...I gobbled it up...read when I could and listened when I couldn’t. I think that the most satisfying aspects are the complex and relatable characters set in a just-believable-enough apocalypse. It’s terrifying and thrilling.
August 24, 2021
In the middle of a hot Georgia summer, I thoroughly enjoyed the idea of a new Ice Age. I remember the 1970 when climate change meant a new ice age and all the devastation it might bring. This series capitalizes on all that research in novel form.
May 8, 2022
Warm Blankets Required
What a great series! The characters are worth routing for. The villains can be surprising. And Mother Nature… what a bitch! I buried myself under a blanket to stay warm, the imagery was so good.
What a great series! The characters are worth routing for. The villains can be surprising. And Mother Nature… what a bitch! I buried myself under a blanket to stay warm, the imagery was so good.
November 30, 2018
Actual Rating 3.5 Stars
This was a good story, really interesting.
This was a good story, really interesting.
August 25, 2019
Awesome Characters
This is one of the best natural disaster books i have read. The characters come to life and I could not put it down.
This is one of the best natural disaster books i have read. The characters come to life and I could not put it down.
August 26, 2019
Really liked this series. Never heard of this particular problem.
October 18, 2020
I have enjoyed this series, maybe not quite as much as Graham's Resolution. Characterisation is good and the books are all action. They remind me very much of playing action PlayStation games.
July 6, 2022
It was very intense & heartstopping!
The character s were very life like in a very catastrophic situation ! They had to make life altering decisions!
The character s were very life like in a very catastrophic situation ! They had to make life altering decisions!
August 11, 2022
THE SUN SERIES 1-3
Excellent read really enjoyed this series. Don’t think I would like to live in an ice age. The animals for one thing, scary.
Excellent read really enjoyed this series. Don’t think I would like to live in an ice age. The animals for one thing, scary.
October 21, 2022
Surrender the Sun Series Boxset Books 1-3
A.R. Shaw writes a fine novel. This boxset was very enjoyable. Well written, well edited and with really human characters.
A.R. Shaw writes a fine novel. This boxset was very enjoyable. Well written, well edited and with really human characters.
February 9, 2023
I am very much invested in this series! For some reason, it resonates within me in light of the extreme weather changes this world is currently enduring. It has gripped me from the very beginning and my heart drops when I read about losing parts of the team! Right now my heart is in my throat as I head for book 4. I must say I enjoy reading and listening to both the Ebook and Audiobook! I can literally visualize what is going on, so much that I have to stick to listening at home only!
March 23, 2024
only read the first book, couldn't find anything but the boxset for review
June 15, 2021
Enthralling
I've really enjoyed this entralling apocalyptic series. It captured my interest from the very beginning of book one, until the end of book three.
I've really enjoyed this entralling apocalyptic series. It captured my interest from the very beginning of book one, until the end of book three.
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