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Nuclear Survival Saga #3
Survive the Panic
With no help in sight, could you make the hard choices? After risking everything, Grant and Leah Walton are finally reunited. But it’s no happy ending. As the reality of the situation dawns on their neighbors, the Waltons find themselves the subject of more than idle curiosity. Not everyone can be trusted. People they counted as friends now look at them with suspicion and fear. Faced with neighbors determined to take all they have, Grant and Leah prepare to leave. But strangers have other plans. If someone threatens all that you hold dear, could you fight back? In a world without enforcement, rules mean nothing. When a band of thieves turn a neighborhood disagreement into an all-out war, Grant and Leah must find the strength to not only fight, but survive. Not everyone will make it. The attack is only the beginning. Survive The Panic is book three in Nuclear Southern Grit, a post-apocalyptic thriller series following ordinary people struggling to survive after a nuclear attack on the Unites States plunges the nation into chaos.
222 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 28, 2018
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Harley Tate
47 books161 followersWhen the world as we know it falls apart, how far will you go to survive?
Harley Tate writes edge-of-your-seat post-apocalyptic fiction exploring what happens when ordinary people are faced with impossible choices.
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The end of life as we know it brings out the best and worst in all of us. The apocalypse is only the beginning.
Harley Tate writes edge-of-your-seat post-apocalyptic fiction exploring what happens when ordinary people are faced with impossible choices.
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The end of life as we know it brings out the best and worst in all of us. The apocalypse is only the beginning.
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September 3, 2018
With only two stars for the prior book, why did I go on to book three, you wonder? Book two focused on the estranged couple, Leah and Grant, making their way back to their home and presumably, each other. Since one of the aspects of apocalypse I enjoy is focus on survival in situations that are both familiar (your home environment) and strange (no electricity), I was curious to see what happened next. And, to be honest, I needed a low demand book that I could read only in short pieces.
Community. Leah and Grant are in their home and trying to figure out what to do next. Leah's still healing from a head wound. Right before Leah arrived, Grant had set up a neighborhood meeting, hoping to bring people together for both practical and psychological reasons. Unfortunately, it didn't go very well. Leah decides to work from the other angle, on a person-by-person basis, offering her medical knowledge to anyone who needs it. Tate does well as showing the various responses people have to crisis, from the outright ostrich, to the fatalist, to those that have faith in authority, to those that challenge everything, because they can.
One of the premises he seems to enjoy operating with is the assumption that people will have to be self-reliant, because 'authority' in its many forms will be overwhelmed. Often there is an information vacuum as to why, which adds uncertainty to individual action. In the Southern Grit series, however, one of our protagonists has insider information, a plot point that reappears in this story.
I'd have to say that this story was more enjoyable for me than the second, strictly because the focus has changed from reuniting to community. The various responses and ramifications keep the story moving. However, the last third unravels into an extended, Hollywood-style, extended hostage scenario that became tiresome. It took the focus back away from the community aspect of survival into a straight-up thriller-style conflict. It also relies on Grant's military service, a plot point that seems to be reoccurring in Tate's books. People who are unable or unwilling to use guns to defend themselves will die.
Two facets of the ending pretty much assured that I'm not going to be returning to the Southern Grit series anytime soon. One was the sappy wish-fulfillment feeling of the military dude safely returning to his capable and sexy wife at the end. It felt like a 'modern' machismo romance ("separate but equal"). Two, the I think Tate has been trying to make a point in his series about community, but it keeps coming back to one that involves the death of anyone 'unfit.'
Still, it's competently written, even if I don't agree with the thematic choices. A lot of the details seemed very authentic and understandable. I'd give the overall series a 2.5 on my scale, but wouldn't go so far as to warn apocalypse fans away. It did provide me for food for thought as I've been walking my dogs through the neighborhood: how many of these people do I know? Would I trust? Could I (do I) have an interaction with? These are the kinds of questions a good end-of-the world story should raise, so I give Tate credit.
Community. Leah and Grant are in their home and trying to figure out what to do next. Leah's still healing from a head wound. Right before Leah arrived, Grant had set up a neighborhood meeting, hoping to bring people together for both practical and psychological reasons. Unfortunately, it didn't go very well. Leah decides to work from the other angle, on a person-by-person basis, offering her medical knowledge to anyone who needs it. Tate does well as showing the various responses people have to crisis, from the outright ostrich, to the fatalist, to those that have faith in authority, to those that challenge everything, because they can.
One of the premises he seems to enjoy operating with is the assumption that people will have to be self-reliant, because 'authority' in its many forms will be overwhelmed. Often there is an information vacuum as to why, which adds uncertainty to individual action. In the Southern Grit series, however, one of our protagonists has insider information, a plot point that reappears in this story.
I'd have to say that this story was more enjoyable for me than the second, strictly because the focus has changed from reuniting to community. The various responses and ramifications keep the story moving. However, the last third unravels into an extended, Hollywood-style, extended hostage scenario that became tiresome. It took the focus back away from the community aspect of survival into a straight-up thriller-style conflict. It also relies on Grant's military service, a plot point that seems to be reoccurring in Tate's books. People who are unable or unwilling to use guns to defend themselves will die.
Two facets of the ending pretty much assured that I'm not going to be returning to the Southern Grit series anytime soon. One was the sappy wish-fulfillment feeling of the military dude safely returning to his capable and sexy wife at the end. It felt like a 'modern' machismo romance ("separate but equal"). Two, the I think Tate has been trying to make a point in his series about community, but it keeps coming back to one that involves the death of anyone 'unfit.'
Still, it's competently written, even if I don't agree with the thematic choices. A lot of the details seemed very authentic and understandable. I'd give the overall series a 2.5 on my scale, but wouldn't go so far as to warn apocalypse fans away. It did provide me for food for thought as I've been walking my dogs through the neighborhood: how many of these people do I know? Would I trust? Could I (do I) have an interaction with? These are the kinds of questions a good end-of-the world story should raise, so I give Tate credit.
June 22, 2019
Harley Tate never seems to surprise me. Once I start reading i can't put the book down. I'm excited to see what is in store for Leah and Grant in the next book of the series.
July 9, 2018
Good reading from Harley Tate. Not long enough to really grab and hold my interest. It seemed to be that as soon as things got interesting in the book, it was over.
July 2, 2018
Good Read But....
Another fast paced action filled story of two people trying to find somewhere safe in a world where nowhere seems safe anymore and almost everyone is willing to kill them for whatever few possessions they might have. While I really enjoyed the overall idea of this book the extremes of the situations that they went through and yet both survived went far past fiction. That they are the primary targets being hunted yet survive when all those around them die just pushed way past any point of believability for me. A good read still but falls more into fantasy than just fiction.
Another fast paced action filled story of two people trying to find somewhere safe in a world where nowhere seems safe anymore and almost everyone is willing to kill them for whatever few possessions they might have. While I really enjoyed the overall idea of this book the extremes of the situations that they went through and yet both survived went far past fiction. That they are the primary targets being hunted yet survive when all those around them die just pushed way past any point of believability for me. A good read still but falls more into fantasy than just fiction.
March 12, 2020
I've read all of the series associated with this story and I found everyone of them interesting, I wish I could say "enjoyable" but I think the plot of the story hits a little too close to home in general. With todays moral compass I can very well see that a certain segment of our population would act in the manner portrayed in in all three stories. The story for all of the books seem unreal but actually the premise could happen and that's what is so scary....what if...what if...? In reality our grid is unprepared for the type of attack that this story tells, so much of todays population expects more than what can possibly be given in the way of help. I really believe that stories of this type are in the realm of possibility, even of a lesser type we would be overwhelmed and most likely unable to cope with the results. As for the characters in the this final #3 in the saga, the hero of this story is Grant, husband of Leigh, who irritated me to no end, she consistently pushed her services in the nursing field to the point where I wanted to smack her her myself, but she puts herself in the position where others can do that for me!
August 27, 2018
This is very short which makes it a bit tough to review. There is a lot of action in this and is fast-paced making it easy to read. The shortness of the book makes the character development somewhat limited, but in some ways Grant and Leah have regressed instead of progressed. I'm not so sure that I would want to remain so close to the city that was leveled by a nuclear bomb for one thing. They kept making decisions that really reduced their ability to respond safely (not having good weapons ready, separating from each other). With all the carnage around them and all of their friends being lost, somehow, those two do survive. Hopefully their new objective will work out better.
December 5, 2018
Real thriller
If you love stories about how people react to the end of the world as we know it, you will love this book. It starts off with Grant being told about a threat to our country. Before you know it, you are dragged into his world as he searches for his wife, Leah, and she searches for him. There is a thrill on every page and it pulls you in and gets you involved in the mystery of who caused this and who can you trust. The action never stops. I would recommend this book to anyone who lives action, mystery, a little romance, and thrills.
If you love stories about how people react to the end of the world as we know it, you will love this book. It starts off with Grant being told about a threat to our country. Before you know it, you are dragged into his world as he searches for his wife, Leah, and she searches for him. There is a thrill on every page and it pulls you in and gets you involved in the mystery of who caused this and who can you trust. The action never stops. I would recommend this book to anyone who lives action, mystery, a little romance, and thrills.
October 26, 2019
There’s no conclusion.
I read the first 3 books in the series about Meg, the computer hacker he met at a conference first. But neither of the 3 book series’s have a conclusion to their plot. Everything is left up in the air. I really dislike storylines like that. The 3 books in this series were great until the last book. Practically everyone dies and it’s too sad. I really don’t think I’d read this series again. It started out with a great premise then went downhill from there which is too bad because I enjoyed the beginning of it.
I read the first 3 books in the series about Meg, the computer hacker he met at a conference first. But neither of the 3 book series’s have a conclusion to their plot. Everything is left up in the air. I really dislike storylines like that. The 3 books in this series were great until the last book. Practically everyone dies and it’s too sad. I really don’t think I’d read this series again. It started out with a great premise then went downhill from there which is too bad because I enjoyed the beginning of it.
January 21, 2019
An HT. SYFY. Novel. ( SG B - 3))/Dangerous Neighbors/Gang Warfare
HT. has. penned a SYFY. Novel About three couples and one extra man who decide not to fight the neighborhood. They locate two vehicles that they can operate. Then they settle an argument with their neighbors and a gang that had been invited in by an irate neighbor. The group travels and finally stood only to suffer the Earth of the gang. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
HT. has. penned a SYFY. Novel About three couples and one extra man who decide not to fight the neighborhood. They locate two vehicles that they can operate. Then they settle an argument with their neighbors and a gang that had been invited in by an irate neighbor. The group travels and finally stood only to suffer the Earth of the gang. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
July 10, 2019
This is the third book of the Southern Grit series. I'm reviewing all three. Like a lot of these books, they are all kind of a big long book. Anyway these are what I think of as kinder, gentler apocalypse stories. They don't fall into the macho survival of the fittest, gun fetish stories. The people act like people I know. They help people even when it might be dangerous or scary to do so. The pacing of these books were oddly slow, but I didn't mind.
September 2, 2019
All hell is loose and what of the US
This book what can I say Harley did an awesome job continuing the story but it was what felt was the saddest. The US is gone chaos has taken over and everything is dog eat dog and due to this everyone they cared for died trying to get themself to a better place to live and start again but at the same time you see the true dark side of humanity and how crupt they can be.
b
This book what can I say Harley did an awesome job continuing the story but it was what felt was the saddest. The US is gone chaos has taken over and everything is dog eat dog and due to this everyone they cared for died trying to get themself to a better place to live and start again but at the same time you see the true dark side of humanity and how crupt they can be.
b
April 15, 2019
Intense
What has happened to the United States? I see where in the next book maybe the characters from the north and the south might meet I just hope Grant will quit shooting bad guys in the arm or leg. That will kill them anyway with no medical care. Counting the days until the next book.
What has happened to the United States? I see where in the next book maybe the characters from the north and the south might meet I just hope Grant will quit shooting bad guys in the arm or leg. That will kill them anyway with no medical care. Counting the days until the next book.
June 13, 2019
Unfinished ending
Unless a fourth book is planned, the ending of this book is u finished. It left me hanging. I like the series in general, and I would have given this book a 4 star, but not the way they didn’t tie up ... well, anything. I feel my time reading all three books in the series was wasted.
Unless a fourth book is planned, the ending of this book is u finished. It left me hanging. I like the series in general, and I would have given this book a 4 star, but not the way they didn’t tie up ... well, anything. I feel my time reading all three books in the series was wasted.
July 20, 2019
Really want to know what happens in Canada
I usually give this lady 5 stars but I couldn’t because of the last battle/encounter. I know he had to save his wife....but the practical side of me says he would have done something else. Read it and see what you think...it’s still a great book in a great five star series. Ok, I’m giving it 5 stars :)
I usually give this lady 5 stars but I couldn’t because of the last battle/encounter. I know he had to save his wife....but the practical side of me says he would have done something else. Read it and see what you think...it’s still a great book in a great five star series. Ok, I’m giving it 5 stars :)
August 7, 2025
what a wild conclusion with a hanging thread for the saga
This last book delivered everything from the previous two books and tied up most plot threads, except for the biggest plot threads left for the saga to continue. Tate’s writing is tight, suspenseful, and fast-paced. Yet I still fell in love with her characters, including her side characters. Highly recommend.
This last book delivered everything from the previous two books and tied up most plot threads, except for the biggest plot threads left for the saga to continue. Tate’s writing is tight, suspenseful, and fast-paced. Yet I still fell in love with her characters, including her side characters. Highly recommend.
July 7, 2018
WOW!!!
Grant and Leah have reunited in their neighborhood but things are different and difficult. The situations are gradually going downhill and going fast. This book is about ordinary citizens and what happens when things change drastically.
Grant and Leah have reunited in their neighborhood but things are different and difficult. The situations are gradually going downhill and going fast. This book is about ordinary citizens and what happens when things change drastically.
July 13, 2018
Another solid addition to Harley’s stories from Atlanta. The characters live next door, make mistakes, & keep on moving forward. It has some need of having the villains to be more filled out. I’m glad everyone isn’t a Special Forces member or ultra prepper. A fun ride for the most part.
July 31, 2018
Another good book
Well written and well edited, this book flows easily and is easy to read and understand what the author is saying. I wish the characters were more fleshed out, but otherwise a pretty good read.
Well written and well edited, this book flows easily and is easy to read and understand what the author is saying. I wish the characters were more fleshed out, but otherwise a pretty good read.
September 4, 2018
Absolutely Excellent Reading
With characters that became good friends, I found I felt lost waiting for the next book.
Though the story his fiction it makes you wonder how you would manage in a crisis like this.
With characters that became good friends, I found I felt lost waiting for the next book.
Though the story his fiction it makes you wonder how you would manage in a crisis like this.
September 10, 2018
Lots of action
This instalment did not disappoint....lots of action and suspense.
My only gripe is not having a synopsis of the first 2 books...I follow a lot of these series and it is hard to remember details after a 6 month hiatus.
This instalment did not disappoint....lots of action and suspense.
My only gripe is not having a synopsis of the first 2 books...I follow a lot of these series and it is hard to remember details after a 6 month hiatus.
April 24, 2019
Gripping
Another outstanding addition to the series. Very good use of characters. Keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. Looking forward to seeing the other side of this saga!
Another outstanding addition to the series. Very good use of characters. Keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. Looking forward to seeing the other side of this saga!
May 28, 2019
I'm in love with Harley's work!! I can't read them fast enough. Her works create a finely woven web you won't escape!!
I disliked nothing. Anxious? Yes, for her next works. I can't wait. Suspense, love, puzzles to be solved. Enter her world.
I disliked nothing. Anxious? Yes, for her next works. I can't wait. Suspense, love, puzzles to be solved. Enter her world.
March 1, 2021
Grant and Leah are faced with growing hostility and envy from their neighbours. With 3 other neighbours, they decide that they need to leave. However, it's not only their neighbours who are bent on taking everything from them.
March 31, 2022
Average folks
My wife especially the fact that there was not much killing in the first two
books and I not only like the main characters but also that the author left the door open for a follow up.
My wife especially the fact that there was not much killing in the first two
books and I not only like the main characters but also that the author left the door open for a follow up.
May 27, 2023
+ We got a good ending, sorta
+ Love the doggo
+ Peaches , FINALLY!
- Its not so much about the end of the world, as it is about fighting off neigbours
- we wont get the answers we need, will we?
-no dragons
+ Love the doggo
+ Peaches , FINALLY!
- Its not so much about the end of the world, as it is about fighting off neigbours
- we wont get the answers we need, will we?
-no dragons
October 3, 2023
Really entertaining and relevant in light of the state of the world today!
Fun ride had to read all the books at once! Worth the time spent. Moving onto more from this author for sure!
Fun ride had to read all the books at once! Worth the time spent. Moving onto more from this author for sure!
January 24, 2024
first segment
Once I start reading this book, grabbed my attention and didn’t let go. Had to find out what happens next, was they going to make it. Was some sad moments of course. But they survived. Hopefully see more about them in one other books
Once I start reading this book, grabbed my attention and didn’t let go. Had to find out what happens next, was they going to make it. Was some sad moments of course. But they survived. Hopefully see more about them in one other books
June 29, 2018
as good as book 1&2. not always the case with series. cant wait for more of this and emp books.
July 1, 2018
Excellent!! Ready for more by this author and the next in this series!
July 4, 2018
Great follow-up book
I really enjoyed characters and how they progressed through story! Can't wait for the next book! Will definitely read it!!
I really enjoyed characters and how they progressed through story! Can't wait for the next book! Will definitely read it!!
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