About the book:
A blinding flash … then darkness.
Bria Ford and her three closest friends are stranded on a country highway in the middle of a November night.
No phones. No cars. No lights.
Helpless and hundreds of miles from home, Bria and her friends put their lives in the hands of the handsome Jonah Page and his flinty sister, East, strangers who somehow know the secrets of Bria’s past. Secrets that not even she knows, but that offer them all the hope of survival.
The Light is Book One in this fast-paced, character-driven, Christian series that will leave you wondering who would I become if the world fell away?
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Book 1 in the series, The Light
Book 2 in the series, Through the Ashes
Book 3 in the series, From the Shadows
Book 4 in the series, Into the Embers
Book 5 in the series, Out of the Darkness
My review of Book 1, The Light:
The Light is a bit different from the previous Christian dystopian series that I’ve read in that the reader never learns what forces are behind the inciting moment – an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) that wipes out all the gizmos and gadgets, plunging life back into the early 19th century. Maybe that comes in later books in the series; this book is about the characters.
Bria, we learn, is a hurt and broken young woman, punishing herself by remaining in an abusive relationship. She and her three friends are stranded on the highway in North Carolina when the EMP hits. As luck (or God) would have it, they meet up with a brother and sister (Jonah and Eden) heading to their nearby home.
When they arrive at Jonah and Eden’s homestead, they are welcomed by a warm and loving family with some revelations that will rock Bria’s entire world well beyond the changes the EMP has wrought. As they learn to survive in a drastically different world, they remain ever-wary of their threatening neighbor, Mick.
Faith – or lack of it – plays an interesting role in the story as Bria is an atheist and her friends are nominal Christians, at best, while the family they’re adopted into is unabashedly Catholic. Jonah is a seminary student and his older brother is a priest.
Some incidents stretched my ability to suspend disbelief regarding both the family’s utter isolation, history, and entanglements, but, again, this story is definitely character over plot.
The Light ends with hearts broken open and a new way of life forged. I’m interested in seeing what the second book in the series brings.
About the author:
Jacqueline Brown is a clinical psychologist turned Christian fiction author. As a psychologist, Jacqueline worked with women and girls who experienced trauma and entanglement with the criminal justice system. She was always amazed at the beauty, hope, and resilience of these women and girls, and she strives to bring that same hope, resilience, and beauty into the characters she creates and the stories they tell. Jacqueline tries to balance her love for fast-paced fiction with the true depth of life, to create characters and stories that leave readers pondering who would I become if the world fell away?
Jacqueline lives in Florida with her beautiful sons and incredibly supportive husband.
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