Five-star review of FALLEN on TicToc Reviews
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Five-star review of FALLEN on TicToc Reviews

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Five-star review of FALLEN on TicToc Reviews

FALLEN enjoyed a terrific 5-star review on The Romance Reviews, which was also posted on the reviewer’s website, TicToc Reviews. This is my favorite kind of review, because the reviewer was totally engaged with the story, and she wrote with clarity and insight about why she liked the novel:

“From the beginning, I was enthralled with the story and Slatton’s voice. She has taken an end of the world scenario and created characters that are so real they make you feel. To arm such a story with the budding of a love of such heat and passion creates a crescendo of feeling that keeps you turning the pages to see what happens next.”
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Jandy’s Reading Room Review of FALLEN

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Jandy’s Reading Room
This book-lover keeps a rich and active review site. The affiliated blog says that the blogger is a medical librarian who loves to read, but then she asks, “Or am I a bookaholic who also is a mecial librarian?” Either way, the reading public is fortunate that her bibliophilic insights are available to us all.
The review of FALLEN arose from a close, insightful reading. She wrote,

Five months earlier, the mists started rising from the Earth. They corroded all metal – including the metal naturally found in human bodies. When a person had contact with the strange, cloudy white mists, that person would erode painfully away. Nothing could reverse the process that could take hours. No one could help because the helper couldn’t avoid the mist enveloping the first one if he tried to save the one caught.

Emma and her five-year-old daughter Mandy had been able to escape the mists. They were visiting in Paris when the mists started, separated from her husband and older daughter back in Canada. Emma started collecting other children as they avoided the mists and tried to survive. Now Emma and eight children are in the deserted French countryside, scavenging for any food they can find. They need more, though.

I was pulled into Fallen from the first few pages. Traci L. Slatton’s apocalyptic world seems eerily possible. No one knows why the mists appeared. Yet they have ravaged the buildings and metal objects in the world and killed billions of people. How does a person fight a monster like that?

…Emma is a practical person, doing what she has to to keep herself and her children alive. Both Emma and Arthur’s characters are complex, unfolding slowly as their relationship does.

…This is not a girly romance. Slatton has written an apocalyptic novel with a romance built in – like most good stories should have.Fallen is excellent. I’ll have to watch for the sequel.

Bending the Spine: Review: Fallen by Traci L. Slatton
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Bending the Spine: Review: Fallen by Traci L. Slatton

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Bending the Spine: Review: Fallen by Traci L. Slatton

This was a passionate and thoughtful review. In part, the reviewer wrote:
“I think I will be haunted by these characters until I get my hands on the next book. Fallen had me crying more than once, there were times of great hope, love, and bitter sadness. I have no idea how the Fallen trilogy will all work out but I am one reader that is happy to be along for the journey.”
 
Read the review here.

Review

When I read the last word of Fallen the first thing I did was grab my laptop to find out if this is in fact the bitter sweet end of the story, and I’m thinking, “this can’t be the end. Please don’t let this be the end of this story.” So, as I’m crying and searching frantically on Traci L. Slatton’s website I find out that Fallen is in fact part of a trilogy.
I’ve read many YA dystopian books but this is my first adult book in the genre and I think it was trying to tear my heart to shreds. If you are a parent be forewarned: Fallen will have you wondering just how far you would go to keep your children safe and loved. I can’t say that I loved Emma’s character but I found myself wondering, if our world was taken by the mist would I make the same decisions Emma did. I have to say that Emma is amazingly strong, and does everything she can to protect those she loves.
What do you do when the world you know ends? Do you find others, band together, and help them? Maybe the mist changed you, (many people now have a power they didn’t have before) if the mist did change you would you try to gain power and hold it over others? Or would you help those around you? Arthur has the greatest power of all and he has decided to help those around him. Emma and Arthur together are wonderful and heartbreaking all at the same time and when you read the book you will understand why I say that. In the end, finding out why Arthur has the ability he does was not a surprise it was more of a sadness.
I think I will be haunted by these characters until I get my hands on the next book. Fallen had me crying more than once, there were times of great hope, love, and bitter sadness. I have no idea how the Fallentrilogy will all work out but I am one reader that is happy to be along for the journey.
Happy Reading
Rebecca
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Another great, thoughtful review of FALLEN

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 Crystal Book Reviews
I love this book review blog. Viviane Crystal is such a thoughtful, careful reader. She writes beautifully, and she is a close, intelligent reader.
About FALLEN she wrote:

“The reader is forced to consider previously stable definitions of time, obedience, psychic powers, science, and most importantly, love. Powers exist, perhaps, that enhance long-ignored mental skills but is the power of memory too strong to allow for new ways of relating and the freedom to explore same without guilt and ignoring the instinctive inclinations of the heart?

Many, many questions arise as one reads this story that defies what can be falsely read as a simplistic story/plot. Traci L. Slatton is a writer to watch closely, including in whatever sequels follow this unique, well-written sci-fi novel! ”

Great Review of FALLEN on Takingtimeformommy Blog!
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Great Review of FALLEN on Takingtimeformommy Blog!

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Takingtimeformommy Blog
I LOVE the idea behind this lively blogspot: that moms can actually take some time for themselves. As the working mother of three daughters and a step-daughter, I often feel like I have no time to pause. Every minute is over-booked. It’s a little better now that the oldest two are in college, but still, there are a tremendous number of details, large and small, for all the girls. Not to mention caretaking for the home and family in general. I am always walking down the street with a list in one hand, my iPhone recording notes for a novel in the other hand, and a planned conversation with a teacher or pediatrician going on in my head.
So it is with delight and appreciation that I found this terrific review of FALLEN. “Excellent book, I mean unbelievable!” wrote the reviewer Mandie O’Steen Stevens.
To all who participate in the blog: Feel free to stalk, I mean, friend me!
Many thanks, Taking-time-for-mommy!!
Great review of FALLEN, on Michelle’s Book Blog
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Great review of FALLEN, on Michelle’s Book Blog

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Great review of FALLEN, on Michelle’s Book Blog

This lively blog gave FALLEN 4 out of 5 stars, and commented, “FALLEN is the first book I have read by Traci L. Slatton and I enjoyed it very much. I am a huge fan of the post apocalyptic genre and FALLEN is a wonderful addition to the genre.
I can’t wait to read more in this trilogy.”
To FALLEN’s readers: I’m writing as fast as I can!
Fallen is the first book in a romantic post apocalyptic trilogy by Traci L. Slatton from Telemachus Press.

Book Blurb:

In a time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test . . .

Lethal mists have scourged the planet, killing billions of people. As chaos and madness descend, one woman with mysterious healing power guides seven children to safety. Charismatic Arthur offers her and her wards a haven. Slowly Emma falls for him. At the moment of their sweetest love, he reveals his devastating secret, and they are lost to each other.

My thoughts:

Emma and her young daughter are in France on a work related trip, her husband and older daughter are in Canada visiting his mother – they plan to meet up for the holidays – when the unthinkable happens.

Out of nowhere mists envelope the world.  Rising up from the ocean, seeping from crevices in the earth, dropping out of a cloudless sky.  These mists are deadly – destroying everything that contains metals or minerals; buildings, vehicles, weapons – people.

Now survivors are on the move, trying to outrun the mists.  Emma and her daughter have picked up several survivors in their escape through France – but one woman and several young children are not safe from the rogue bands of refugees scattered throughout the countryside.

When Emma and the children are saved from the mists by a group of men on horse back, Emma decides it would be in their best interest to join them at their camp.  Their leader, Arthur offers shelter in exchange for Emma’s company.

Despite their intentions, Arthur and Emma develop feelings for one another.  But Arthur holds a terrible secret about the mists.  And Emma holds a secret of her own.

Fallen is the first book I have read by Traci L. Slatton and I enjoyed it very much.  I am a huge fan of the post apocalyptic read and Fallen is a wonderful addition to the genre.

I can’t wait to read more in this trilogy.