Year One (Chronicles of The One) by Nora Roberts (Epub)

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As this world ends, a new one begins.

From number one New York Times bestseller Nora Roberts – an epic, apocalyptic tale of good and evil, love and loss.

With one drop of blood, the old world is gone for ever. And in its place, something extraordinary begins…

They call it The Doom – a deadly pandemic that starts on a cold New Year’s Eve in the Scottish countryside. There’s something mysterious about the virus and the way it spreads. As billions fall sick and die, some survivors find themselves invested with strange, unexpected abilities.

Lana, a New York chef, has the power to move things and people with her will. Fred can summon light in the darkness. Jonah, a paramedic, sees snatches of the future in those he touches. Katie gives birth to twins, and suspects that she has brought fresh magic into the world, along with new life.

But The Doom affects people differently. Along with the light, a dark and terrifying magic will also rise. As the remaining authorities round up the immune and the ‘Uncannies’ for testing, Lana, Katie and others flee New York in search of a safe haven. The old world is over, and Year One has begun.

‘Nora Roberts weaves a powerful story of a deadly plague in this gripping, movie-like narrative’ – Good Housekeeping

‘A deadly pandemic known as The Doom kicks off in the Scottish countryside. Who doesn’t want to read this?’ – Emerald Street

User’s Reviews

NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including The Obsession, The Liar, The Collector, Whiskey Beach, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Keedysville, MD. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review “Electric and ground-breaking…A fast-paced, mesmerizing, and thought-provoking novel that will no doubt add to Roberts’ legions of fans.” –Kirkus, Starred Review“Fascinating characters and a well-built dystopia combine with a riveting plot that will attract a whole new group of readers.” –Library Journal, Starred Review“What Roberts has done, with her radical departure, is ensure that she will find new fans among readers attracted to apocalyptic sf and speculative fiction.” –Booklist”A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King’s The Stand.” –New York Times Book Review“You’ll be hooked.” –People Magazine”Roberts knows exactly how to spellbind an audience.” –The Washington Post“Nora Roberts has turned her pen to apocalyptic fiction. And, oh boy, she really delivered…fast-paced and energetic.” –Bustle“The queen of the best-seller list is kicking off a new trilogy, a foray into dystopian fantasy that may earn the novelist a few gazillion more fans.” — AARP.org, Best Books of Winter 2018 Recommended as one of four books students should read over winter break by The Carolinian, UNC Greensboro –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I was hesitating on reading this at the first because so many reviewers claiming how dark & unlike Nora the writing was. But I broke down & paid the $15 & began reading it.I actually think it is very Nora. The detailed descriptions will have u in tears or fears, laughter or disgust. She makes u feel as you read. You can’t help it.There are many characters & you will feel for nearly all & you will remember their stories. Flynn, Starr, Eddie, Katie, Arlys, Fred… I can’t even begin to choose who will be the focus of the next in the series. And that was something different in this one. Turns out that there aren’t obvious pairs that will survive. So you will cry. You will gasp. You will wonder why? How? This can’t work. But by the end you will believe that it can & will turn out. Not sure how but … WOW!The issue of the dark theme… Nora has written other books with magic & books with evil. I think the difference was that this one has more instances where it appears that darkness & evil triumph. But previous books have had rape, death, evil. We just could find comfort that they would not triumph in one book. This one holds that hope off literally until the epilogue. Until then you still ache & are unsure about good being able to pull it out of the bag.So block out 24 hours to read it (& it will be non stop) & make sure you not only have a box, or three, of Kleenex & take off the make up first, but also don’t plan on letting anyone see your face for at least a day after you finish it.

⭐ I know this review will be one of many, but I have a few things to say. I have always been a huge fan of Nora Roberts and her alter ego, JD Robb. Roberts has a cadence to her writing that is very specific. Before this book I would have said that I could pick her books out of a crowd. Year One, however is very different. I’m sure I’m not the only one who read this to whom this applies, but I also have quite an obsession with apocalyptic fiction. Give me a good plague, weather event, nuclear war or zombie apocalypse and I’m in heaven. This book is a fabulous mixture of both Roberts’ trademark magicks and apocalyptic fiction. What astounds me is that she has the structure, characters and cadence of that genre down pat. I imagine that she also reads a lot of it. And yet with the supernatural element, it’s like no other plague book I’ve ever read. It is a brilliant hybrid. Some of Roberts’ long time fans will hate this book, but I not only love it, I’m dying for the next book. Year Thirteen maybe?Mild Spoilers AheadOne aspect that Roberts did very well was the confluence of both events and characters. The plague part was over very quickly but the coming together and build up of the community and Lana’s flight was very well done. Unlike other books, there isn’t one central romantic couple but several. It is my guess that in later books, Fallon will connect with the other three babies – Duncan especially. I am really looking forward to what will follow this unique and awesome story.

⭐ SPOILER ALERT: this review contains information gained only from finishing the book.I’ll give this one 3 stars for now. I’m still a bit undecided on how I view this one. I’ve read her books for years, and I typically enjoy the trilogies. But over the past few years, I feel they were pretty formulaic…3 men, 3 women, strangers coming together to fight so light can triumph over dark,etc. In most of these, the characters were interesting enough for me to enjoy reading the books even if they felt a bit lighter in content and a bit rushed, too, over the last couple of series.This was a big departure from that formula, and this book is decidedly darker. I don’t mind darker content, and I expected it from the description so no worries there. But it was strange that the majority of the book spent so much time introducing characters and character interaction only to have the last part of the book completely eliminate those characters. I’ll give the next one a shot and see if that changes. I usually disappear into a book and have enough imagination to feel I am living the story while I read. But I found I had absolutely no emotional investment in the story here, and that may not change with subsequent books. We’ll see…Bottom line, if you like darker stories and don’t mind characters disappearing suddenly–and you like Nora Roberts books–you may find this enjoyable.

⭐ Not at all what I expect from a Nora Roberts book. Her last two books now have not been something I would read again. I will not be reading any more books from this series. Characters vague. Not really likable. Hard to get into the book. I had to read certain paragraphs again because I couldn’t understand who was talking…uh! I usually take less than a day to read a great book, but this book I started reading it the first day and read about 20 pages and put it down and didn’t pick it up for 3 weeks. 3 weeks! When I picked it up again, I really didn’t want to finish it. I did though. Took me another week to finish it. My recommendation if you want to read something that was like the better books of Nora Roberts, switch authors and read an author named Jill Shalvis. Jill’s books are so much better and I am now a huge fan! No longer a Nora fan. Sorry.

⭐ Never heard or read anything by this author and heard that it was similar to “The Stand”..( my favorite book ever), so I was excited to read this… but was (thankfully) quickly turned off by the bad writing , I only made it to 16%. What I believe made THE STAND so enjoyable to most was that it was planted in the real world- with just a touch of supernatural to make it mysterious. It felt like Nora Roberts took the plot of TS and said to herself,” I’ll make it different by adding unexplained silly magic, elves, wizards, witches, and unicorns!”… yes people, you heard right- UNICORNS. There is actually a part in this book that the (beautiful woman who dabbles in Wicca, but really is strong with the force, I mean magic) says to her boyfriend- (the strikingly handsome tall perfect physique wizard)..” I heard on the news that there was a sighting of a woman riding a Unicorn down Madison Ave. I hope it is true!!”….. SERIOUSLY?!? I just couldn’t read past that. If you enjoy reading Twilight- this might be your cup of tea. I’m usually not this harsh on reviews, but I feel compelled to warn people who really like post apocalyptic stories to not take a chance on it like I did… especially don’t waste the $14.99 it cost to download it!!

⭐ Nora Roberts rarely fails to entertain, and ‘Year One’ is a nearly flawless book. Following the accidental infection of patient zero, the dance of death consumes billions of people, nearly wiping out humanity.Darkness flows into the world, tainting people’s chances for survival. Despite having immunity to the virus, some chose to follow darkness, some sought simple survival, and some sought the spark of life.All the issues of humanity still remain; xenophobic racism, fear of those who are different, jealously, envy, greed, malice, and lust for power mark those drawn to the darkness. False evangelicals, who make the inquisition seem like a toddler’s play date, seek to eliminate magickals, even the ones who are from the light.Into this backdrop is born a savior, and her protectors fight to ensure her birth, and survival. I can hardly wait for book two.

⭐ Lately NR’s three-book series and even some of the Eve Dallas books (written as J.D. Robb) have been very formulaic. The standalone books have been better. Although the title suggests there will be more books, I had hope for this book because it’s a departure from her normal type of book, but sadly it had different problems. The first 3/4 of the book are spent following three groups of people as they escape from New York. Then something happens and suddenly the rest of the book follows just one person. A few months pass, and this person doesn’t spend any time wondering what happened to her friends. Not even an epilogue gets back to them. What’s the point of having several story arcs if you drop all but half of one? Maybe they’ll come back in the next book. It just felt like NR spent so much time on the early part of the book, got tired, and then rushed the rest of it. I don’t think I’ll buy the next one when it comes out. Probably wait until it goes on sale, which I never thought I’d say about NR, but it’s definitely heading that way.

⭐ I have very mixed feelings about this book. I am a big Nora Roberts fan and I believe I have read every book she has published. In most of her books, I am invested by the first chapter but it took about 30% of this book for me to get sucked in and care about the characters. When I did, I didn’t want to put the book down. However, after living daily life with the characters, all of a sudden, we skipped a few months into the future. It was disorienting and I felt like I had missed out. I actually went back to check that I hadn’t skipped a few chapters by mistake. It then took me another few chapters to get back into the book. Just as I was getting back into things, I neared the end, where I felt betrayed by Nora’s characters for the first time ever. I have never known Nora’s characters to casually switch allegiance, so I was extremely disappointed by this ending. It was well written, as usual but I hate the characters’ choices and for the first time ever, I’m not sure if I even want to finish the series.

⭐ Since I do not usually read Nora Roberts’ ‘magick’ books, this was new to me. Some complain it was similiar to ‘The Stand’ or other books/movies. Well, the truth is everything has already been written by someone or the other. Authors just have to try and tweak it to seem different. So that does not bother me.I won’t tell the plot spoilers, but there is a big twist towards the end of the book and I was not prepared for it. There was also a developIment at the end that I did not like.But it appears that this series is going to cover a large span of time. These first characters may not turn out to be the main ‘stars’ of the series.I do not always buy ANY author’s books anymore – whether they are $5.99 or $14.99. They all write crappy books sometimes. But I had a large credit balance with Amazon and decided to give this book a try instead of waiting for the library copy. I am glad I did.The story was good. The characters were interesting. If I had one criticism (besides the cost) it would be this habit Nora Roberts has with dialogue. Sometimes it is hard to tell who is speaking. I have to backtrack and read passages over to see who is speaking.So to sum it up – I have NOT read her other magick books so it was new to me and I liked it.

⭐ I love Nora Roberts and the recent direction her books have gone. Yes, this one is by far the darkest, but the story line is so powerful and just sucks you in.So why only 3 stars? The book suffers from what I call the Game of Thrones syndrome. This is where you have not only lots of main characters, but lots of supporting characters and an intricate web that links them all – through the past and present. George RR Martin took his time (and is still taking his time LOL) to craft gigantic tomes that explored this all in depth to give us a story that will transcend the ages.But in this case, Ms. Roberts presents us with an ever-growing cast of characters with links and backstories, but something is off. Instead of adding depth and nuance, these character are simply adding NOISE. If I remember, somewhere between pages 290 and 325 I counted like 15 new characters introduced. I couldn’t even keep up with the old ones (who were Poe and Kim and why are they there?) let alone learn about Carla the policewoman. Or Manning (I still can’t figure out who Manning is or why I’m supposed to care) or Karl.These noisy characters kept popping up, but as window dressing. It’s a distraction from the main characters. By the way, I’m not even really sure who the main characters are. Obviously Lana and Max. But what about Arlys? She’s big in the beginning but then becomes a virtual wallflower. Katie? That was a side story that hit a brick wall. Fred is cool but she’s just appears when they need her. Rachel and what’s his name, the EMT…are they major or minor? They joined Arlys in the wallflower category. Eddie’s awesome but he went from third wheel to abandoned sidekick. Is Chuck a major character or sidekick? I mean, he’s a total hero but he’s locked in the basement and only comes out when they need him. He’s CONVENIENT. No idea why Flynn is there. And Starr? Will? Bill? And then Simon, who I’m guessing becomes the man behind the woman.That’s just the protagonists. Then you have a growing list of antagonists like Eric and Allegra, and the town rednecks, and the Purity Warriors, the Raiders, and the Dark Uncanny etc.These are just the people I remember off the top of my head. There were so many more.The problem is, unlike George RR Martin, Ms. Roberts doesn’t have time or space to fully explore all of these characters. But she wants to, and maybe that’s the problem. She introduces someone interesting and invests us in them, but then dumps them to become dust in the wind once she introduces her next genius character.The story itself is wonderfully chaotic and emotional and deep. It would have been more powerful if a core group of main characters would have taken center stage and the story wove around them, and let the supporting cast do just that – support.So I’m giving it 3 stars because I think it was a chance for a huge home run, best book of her career, but it ended up being a bit of a mess. A compelling mess…so I’m looking forward to Book 2. Can’t help it.

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