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Deathlands #66
Separation
CHAINS OF DESTINY
Hard strength and resilience are needed to survive each new day in the treacherous world of postnuclear America. For Ryan Cawdor and his companions, honor, integrity and a willingness to kill are necessary as well, as they struggle to balance a survivalist spirit with a warrior's resolve to press on, living by their own rules in a tortured land, pursuing a dream that leads them into the unknown...
SPLIT DECISIONS
Ryan and his group make their way to a remote island in hopes of finding brief sanctuary. Instead, they are captured by an isolated tribe of descendants of African slaves from pre-Civil War days. When the tribesmen declare Mildred Wyeth "free" from her white masters, it is a twist of fate that ultimately leads the battle-hardened medic to question where her true loyalties lie. Will she side with Ryan, J.B. Dix and those with whom she has forged a bond of trust and friendship... or with the people of her own blood? But the loss of Mildred is not the only threat the group faces - in a treacherous world where the ties that bind can cut both ways.
In the Deathlands, the future is not what it used to be...
Hard strength and resilience are needed to survive each new day in the treacherous world of postnuclear America. For Ryan Cawdor and his companions, honor, integrity and a willingness to kill are necessary as well, as they struggle to balance a survivalist spirit with a warrior's resolve to press on, living by their own rules in a tortured land, pursuing a dream that leads them into the unknown...
SPLIT DECISIONS
Ryan and his group make their way to a remote island in hopes of finding brief sanctuary. Instead, they are captured by an isolated tribe of descendants of African slaves from pre-Civil War days. When the tribesmen declare Mildred Wyeth "free" from her white masters, it is a twist of fate that ultimately leads the battle-hardened medic to question where her true loyalties lie. Will she side with Ryan, J.B. Dix and those with whom she has forged a bond of trust and friendship... or with the people of her own blood? But the loss of Mildred is not the only threat the group faces - in a treacherous world where the ties that bind can cut both ways.
In the Deathlands, the future is not what it used to be...
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 2004
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June 6, 2025
We get a dose of racial politics as our heroes make it a remote island and find a community made up of former slaves. Of course, they were freed 150 years ago, but that doesn't matter to them. They abduct the Black woman medic from the hero team to "free" her, and she starts questioning her loyalties, as wimps start getting wasted.
I'm a little surprised Gold Eagle published this.
I'm a little surprised Gold Eagle published this.
July 12, 2014
I have become a big fan of the Deathlands series, catching up on the first 66 books in less than half a year. This one is--so far--the one I least like. It was a very tedious read, so much that I decided just to skim over the last few chapters in order to get on with a hopefully better follow-up story.
To name a few things that did not feel right:
- The characters had a wrong feeling to them, especially Mildred and Ryan
- The plot felt forced at moments
- Really, really stupid bad guys
- The companions felt too soft
- Long-winded writing style - Story felt dragged out with uninteresting things
- To much show and tell that did not drive on the story
- Some characters were less likable after the book
I could go on, but not without providing any spoilers. I really do hope that the series is bouncing back to better quality.
To name a few things that did not feel right:
- The characters had a wrong feeling to them, especially Mildred and Ryan
- The plot felt forced at moments
- Really, really stupid bad guys
- The companions felt too soft
- Long-winded writing style - Story felt dragged out with uninteresting things
- To much show and tell that did not drive on the story
- Some characters were less likable after the book
I could go on, but not without providing any spoilers. I really do hope that the series is bouncing back to better quality.
April 6, 2023
Post-apocalyptic Gullah Gullah Island
October 21, 2011
Read aloud, this book may quite possibly have the power to kill. Expect at least a severe disruption of brain and nerve function, with significant secondary trauma to the digestive tract. At least when Philip Jose Farmer touched on such themes in his second Riverworld book, he was writing in 1977.
February 4, 2017
Holy shit this was bad. Mildred and J.B. don't act like themselves. Mildred feels like she fits in for the first time in her life because they hang with people who share a skin color. the other carectures are barly in it.it It's pretty much an entire book about racism. nothing happens. Bad bad bad.
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