TRACI L. SLATTON
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Vote for COLD LIGHT in the PRG Best of 2012
I am delighted to share the news that my novels are up for two awards with the noted Paranormal Romance Guild.
COLD LIGHT has been nominated for Best Reviewer Read of 2012 in the Sci Fi genre;
FALLEN/COLD LIGHT, eg, The After Series, has been nominated for Best Reviewed Series of 2012.
It would be great to win! Vote here
Many thanks!
BEST FANTASY STORIES did a terrific, thoughtful, thorough review of COLD LIGHT. Check out the review here.
Here are some juicy tidbits from the review:
“I read this second part of the science fiction series called The After without reading the first book, Fallen and still was sucked into this post-apocalyptic world within a few pages. Slatton’s descriptions in her science fiction series world are that clear. …
The landscape plays a big part of this science fiction series, as it should when you have characters walking hundreds of miles in sub-zero weather across hostile territory. But it is also the people she meets along the way in a science fiction series that make a very believable place even in such an unbelievable situation….
I found myself finishing the book and deciding that I don’t care that I know where it is going, this is a science fiction series where I want to read that first book to visit those characters again. There are plenty of new science fiction series coming out this year, but few have taken me in as quickly and thoroughly as Cold Light. …”
Two cool reviews of FALLEN
Gothic Mom’s Book Reviews had fun with FALLEN. “Packed with danger and excitement, twists and turns, and an amazing love story, Fallen is one of those books that you just have to have!”
Check out the review here.
Me-Mommy Etc. had some fun with FALLEN also: “It really picked up and was a nice quick read. It is part of a planned trilogy and I am eagerly awaiting the other two books.“
I finished Fallen a long time ago but have never gotten around to writing its review. The first thing I will say is I almost gave up on this book. I really was not into in the beginning, but I figured I would give it 100 pages and if I still hated it I would move on. Well there hit a point and I was sucked in. This book is a story about the world post end of days. It centers around a mother who is traveling with her own daughter, and several other children she has picked up along the way. Each child seems to have a special ability (well everyone does it is a side effect of whatever brought the end of the world as they knew it). She comes across a tribe of men and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her band of children safe. This quickly turns into a love story, but it much more than that. It is a love story and a story of survival. What I think I loved most as although it was a love story, it wasn’t your simple boy meets girl. It was much more complicated than that. The main character was still technically married and didn’t know if her husband was alive or not, the man she fell for may or may not have helped bring about the end of the world, and there is the constant threat of death and destruction at every corner. It really picked up and was a nice quick read. It is part of a planned trilogy and I am eagerly awaiting the other two books.
Check out this great new review of COLD LIGHT on the popular Lost Entwife bookblog.
“Traci Slatton nails it with her follow up to Fallen….”
Traci Slatton nails it with her follow up to Fallen. In Cold Light Emma is faced with hard decision after hard decision – and we’re not talking about decisions on simply where to live or who to be with. We’re talking life and death decisions in a place that is just simply not pretty.
The end of Fallen leaves of with the reuniting of Emma with her family. She leaves behind someone she’s grown attached to and does what is right and honorable. But now her life in Europe has followed her to Canada – in more ways than one.
What I appreciate about the After trilogy is how the world can be so bleak, but yet there is so much hope in the story. There’s love, and thoughtfulness, and honor in a place where those just don’t seem like they’d exist anymore. And what I love even more is how honest Traci’s writing is. She doesn’t hesitate to do what needs to be done to move the story forward. When writing a story like Cold Light (or it’s previous book), there are hard things which need to be done to give the story credibility. You cannot write about bad people and have them not do bad things. This is not a young adult dystopian or post-apocolyptic story – this is hardcore, knuckle-whitening stuff and it kept me riveted from page one.
A fun new review of COLD LIGHT, just in time for my birthday….
Check out the intriguing and lively Fictitious Musings Blog “where bookish people share their thoughts,” and read what they have to say about COLD LIGHT….
“The After trilogy is a post-apocalyptic romance story that is as heart-breaking as it is realistic. …Slatton once again has created a brilliant post-apocalyptic world that will have you on the edge of your seat. I couldn’t read it fast enough.”
Tynga’s Reviews is a fun and far-reaching blog out of Ontario. Here’s the link to the Giveaway for FALLEN and COLD LIGHT and here’s the link to the review:
“Emma is one of the few who has survived and she has gained the ability to heal with the touch of her hands. I loved her as a main character because she is so solid and strong…. Some type of romantic relationship develops between Emma and Arthur. I love the basis of the relationship, although I totally didn’t expect what happened between them in the first chapter. I have to admit, their bickering and their fighting is quite engaging and it’s the reason the love story behind the book is so interesting. I don’t want to spoil any surprises but it’s quite obvious, as you read the book, that secrets will create a lot of tension, not only between Emma and Arthur, but between the whole group of survivors. … As a whole, I really enjoyed this novel. It’s quite dark at times with the death of so many people and the fighting amongst gangs of survivors…Traci L. Slatton added a great amount of these details, creating a realistic image of a brutal world…Slatton is a wonderful discovery and fans of the genre will be satisfied with FALLEN since, not only is it very original, but it also has a good solid love story at the heart of the book.”
