I just reviewed the first book in the series day before yesterday, so scroll down and read that one first. 'Kay? And yesterday I hosted a Super Book Blast for this book because it was released yesterday.
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INTO THE FIRE picks up where AFTER THE ENDING leaves off, so I don't want to give away too much of the ending of the AFTER THE ENDING. Does that make a lick of sense? Anyway...
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So, the grid's down and they're in the boonies, Dani's got a hot boyfriend (Zoe's brother, Jason) and a cool new Ability, which is kinda like telepathy. This groovy new life is interrupted when Dani is kidnapped. Zoe's freaked out to have her bestest friend taken away from her. Again. Meanwhile, Dani is taken to the Colony where she's told she was rescued from Crazies (zombie-like survivors.) But, she quickly learns that the Crazies are least of her worries.
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The Colony is ran by a General who calls himself the president of the New United States. If you've read the first book, you know that the military survivors remember lockdown at their base so brutal you'd get shot if you tried to leave. So, you know something screwy's going on here. Turns out, the General likes Dani really a lot for two reasons, one she's got a great Ability and two she's reproductively fit. Humanity's got to be saved, you know. But, is it being saved or *remade?*
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But, Zoe's got some insight too, perhaps strengthened by her friendship with Dani. She's seeing things and one thing she sees is a girl named Becca, a girl they thought was dead. She was a member of their group, a sister. She died, no pulse, but now Zoe sees her alive. And she's in the Colony and failing to meet with the General's brutal expectations. To save Dani, Jason and Zoe cook up a plan to catch Becca who has no memory of them or being who she was before.
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Meanwhile, back at the Colony, Dani's forgetful and a lot more compliant all of a sudden too. She's been given a big house, along with the implication that she will be fruitful and multiply therein. Can someone say 'playing God?'
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But, Dani's mind isn't quite ready to roll over and play dead.
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But, but, her friends' half-baked plan is coming apart as the ties that bind get stretched...
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There's some tension there. Is Dani turning into a helpless, spineless breeding machine? Will Jason and Zoe fall into a trap? Does the General know Zoe's got some Ability too?
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The writing skills of these two have improved a lot since AFTER THE ENDING and everything is much more fluid, although I actually enjoyed the first story the most. Hey, skills ain't everything, you know! With the grid down, you need to pay more attention when the Point of View switches between Dani and Zoe, because they can't Text or eMail anymore. They do the mind-thing though and each switch starts with the character's name, so I think you can keep up.
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Like I said before, scroll down and read my review of the first book in this series, AFTER THE ENDING, and also check out the Book Blast. You can find both books at Barnes & Noble and/or you can pop over to the authors' website to learn how to get it elsewhere and also read about other cool stuff. http://www.theendingseries.com/
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