WHEN THE SUN FLARES -- EARTH’S MANTLE HICCUPS -- SOCIETY SUFFERS
Rob Bell is financially screwed, although his wife doesn’t know it yet. His only hope is to sell a house that he’s constructed near to the beach. With one day to go to the sale, his, and everyone else’s world comes crashing down. Severe movement in the Earth’s tectonic plates caused by sun flares discharging positive charged particles into the mantle, go on to create a disaster that scientists failed to predict in its enormity. EMPs destroy the grid. Ash from volcanos darken the land. Floods divide the nation, with new mountain ranges created. The USA will never be the same again, changed forever.
Their home in a gated community is high in the hills of Santa Monica, overlooking the Pacific. They decide to stay put. Survival is the new game, money no longer an issue as death casts its shadow over the World and their community.
As their food supplies run low, and constantly under attack from outsiders, Brogan the head of their community security creates a mini fiefdom, with Rob’s wife in charge of rations. Under attack, and falling foul of Brogan, and with death stalking him, Rob knows the only way out is for them to travel to his dad’s bunker. Trouble is, io get there is a thousand-mile journey fraught with danger and his wife doesn’t want to go. Fiercely loyal, he will have to decide if he should leave or to stay.
I love the plot. Really has a well thought out plot. Needed to research some particular aspects of the story a bit better. The Sierra Nevada end a lot further North of the place in which they are supposed to be. The Mojave Desert and Las Vegas are high desert. Too high and too far inland to be flooded by the sea. The grammar was atrocious, like it was directly translated from Portuguese. The misspelled words grated on my nerves, making it hard to follow the story at times. Other than all that a pretty good read.
This is a very exciting story. Mother nature decides to rearrange the furniture and mankind has to find a way to survive it. Earth quakes, tsunamis, and erupting volcanoes change the world. A man and a woman travel together seeking family and safety.