About the Book

Book: Pulse
Author: Linore Burkard
Genre: Christian YA/Apocalyptic Suspense
Release date: August 24, 2015

What do you do when the whole world stops?

Andrea, Lexie and Sarah are just ordinary teens until a mysterious event shuts down all technology. In the dead of winter, there’s no heat, no internet, no cell phones–not even a working car. In this chilling Christian YA tale, most of the population doesn’t survive. Pitting faith and grit against a world without power, the girls and their families must beat the odds. But can they find the strength to survive when society collapses and technology fails?

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About the Author

Linore Rose Burkard wrote a trilogy of genuine regency romances for the Christian market before there were any regencies for the Christian market. Published with Harvest House, her books opened the genre for the CBA. She also writes YA Suspense/Apocalyptic fiction as L.R. Burkard. Married with five children, Linore home-schools her youngest daughter, teaches workshops for writers, and is the Vice President of the Dayton Christian Scribes. Her latest PULSE EFFEX SERIES, takes readers into a “chilling possible future for America, while affirming the power of faith in the darkest of times.”

More from Linore

When my sweet historical romance series was published, I never dreamed my next would be YA/dystopian. What a switch in genres! So, how did I go from one end of the writing spectrum to another? Blame it on an idea that refused to die. I read a headline about how close the earth came to suffering a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, in 2012. We missed the worst effects of a solar flare by a hair (in space terms); but the “what if” factor had been set in motion. What if that flare hadn’t missed us? What if I was a teen raised on electronics–or an adult medically dependent on them–and it all went dead in a matter of seconds? What if the next flare doesn’t miss? PULSE, the first book in my PULSE EFFEX Series, was born.

The books shows life in the aftermath of such an event for three teens and their families. With the world plunged into a new dark age, can they keep hope alive?

My Review

This book is a YA read. The story sounded interesting and I’m always on the lookout for good books for my kids to read. I have to say that after reading this book I think many adults would like this story.

This is the first time I have read anything from L.R. Burkard and the first time I have read a book around this scenario.

The story is about three young teenagers who are sixteen and have a good life. Suddenly that good life is turned upside down from an electro-magnetic pulse. The story is told in first person story telling. The story flows good in this style and goes back and forth between chapters. All girls are good friends in school but, all of them have different stories. You can follow the events in by dates and weeks.

I love that all the girls are different one girl lives out in the country and family is prepared and preppers for this kind of an event. The other teen lives in the city in an upper middle class home with siblings. The last girl lives on the tenth floor apartment with other family. As you can image each story is unique for each girl. One family is pretty self-sufficient and prepared, another family is upper-middle-class and another family before all this happened was barely making it paycheck by paycheck. You can’t help but to really feel and care for each family.

The book is Christian, not preachy but what I would like to think of as realistic. There is no language, s*x, the violence is there but not glorified or long drawn out details. It’s done in a way that is tasteful, if I can use that word generally.

The situations are realistic. I mean what you would do if you couldn’t use your phone, internet or even your car. It makes you see how depended we are on things like going to the grocery store.

This is an excellent book and I want to read the other books in this series and look into more of her books. Yes, I would let my teenagers read this story. I think my son would prefer one coming from a teen boy’s point of view.

I received a free copy of this product from Celebrate Lit Bloggers in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family. I am disclosing this information accordance with the FTC Regulations.