Sojourn: The Deadlands (Rayn Mirago Saga #2) By B.D. Messick

Best Place to Read and Write The ParkFavorite Movie Avatar When I saw that movie the first time it lit something inside me and I came home and started seriously writing for the first time I live in the Pittsburgh area enduring the seemingly endless winters and the sometimes brutally hot summers. Best Place to Read and Write The ParkFavorite Movie Avatar When I saw that movie the first time it lit something inside me and I came home and started seriously writing for the first time site_link This is the second book in the Sojourn series It s a dystopian series and I think that the author has a real gem here It s very well written and sometimes difficult to put down There are 4 books in the Sojourn series They deal with Rayn Mirago and her boyfriend Luk and their trek from the Vegas Enclave to the Atlanta Enclave The world as we know it has ended with war and disaster caused by global warming and the people left alive live in one of only a few cities in the USA In order to keep fresh blood flowing in the veins of future citizens children on their 17th birthday must sojourn or travel to another Enclave I wondered why they traveled from Vegas northward to Denver when the Denver Enclave no longer even exists to go east to Atlanta Well the answer was that the southern part of the country was destroyed by earthquakes and floods The Deadlands in this book was a barren land of hot sun and shifting sands in a desert that swallowed up any remaining civilization Along the way they meet a good friend and then lose her They are captured by a wild group who has a terrible purpose for them and then later rescued by a great group of people I loved the wind car they find and fix so that they can skim across the sands for many miles before the car is destroyed This is a great series I will be ordering book 3 English I received this book for free as part of the Goodreads Giveaways in exchange for an honest review. Now there were a few glaring mistakes which I d like to address Firstly is the use of the phrase All of the sudden sic Now the common use of that phrase is all of a sudden you d have to go back to the 16th century for all of the sudden to be correct But that s not the only thing that bothers me about this phrase I was once told if you re writing something happening quickly all of a sudden takes too long just replace it with suddenly to keep the plot moving quicker. Next would be on page 87 where there s a moment of repetition that really breaks the moment and finally and perhaps the worst mistake is on page 283 where out heroine gets confused about how someone found out her name when they use it in conversation The problem is nobody actually says her name at all There s a whole conversation about something that didn t happen Weird. I know I ve said some bad points but honestly the story makes up for all of that On the whole the book is well written with great characters fantastic action scenes and a wonderful sense of drive I loved it all so much If you ve enjoyed books like The Hunger Games or Divergent then this series is for you It has a strong female lead that s so popular these days and manages to do it without her being impossibly annoying The romance element is worked in beautifully and I found the desert trek to be highly believable in its difficulty There are several elements in the book that are clearly well researched mainly the car and although this helped to set the scene I did find it a little tech heavy in places Still it all works well. I can t wait for the third installment of this adventure English First I have to state that I read an unedited version of this book months and months ago so it s not fresh in my mind. I Loved This Book I really enjoyed the first book Sojourn The Wildlands but in book 2 things get REAL While Rayn and Luk had obstacles in Wildlands they re nothing compared to Deadlands There are multiple brushes with death and hardships but working together they fight to keep going I expected the ending to be similar to the first book in that they make it to the end of this stretch of their journey but oh man I was pleasantly surprised to find that wasn t the ending and it was so much better This book is definitely grittier than The Wildlands in my opinion the hardships a little harsh. Disclaimer I do work for the publisher of this book however I receive no money for sales of this book All opinions stated in this review are my own and do not reflect those of the company English Even though I have not read the first book in the series I was able to jump right into the story and enjoy it. I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review English I thought nothing could top the first bookI was wrong This book is amazingly written This is the 2nd book in the series and within the first few pages the Author already has you pretty much begging for what is written to be unwritten because it s just too sad You want to scream cry and a myriad of other emotional responses You hope that that is the worst experience Rayn and Luk will have to go through that you will read in the book alas that will not be so So much happens that you have to wonder how they re not sitting in a dark corner somewhere rocking back and forth begging for death to take them swiftly but they forge on because they must So much sadness so profoundly written that you FEEL it along with the characters in the story So much anger that you can feel the hot embers of wrath burning within you just as it burns within Rayn and Luk And the hollow emptiness that sometimes threatens to overtake them yet they cling to the remnants of hope of reaching some semblance of civilization and safety I cannot begin to describe in the right words how amazingly written this series is but I am about to start the 3rd in the series and I STRONGLY recommend that any and all get your hands on this series and give it a try You will NOT be disappointed English

Sojourn: The Deadlands (Rayn Mirago Saga #2) By B.D. Messick

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Book II of the Rayn Mirago Saga The Deadlands A wasteland of burning sun and shifting sands that stretches for than a thousand miles from the foot of the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River The once vibrant Great Plains of the central United States is a bleak and barren desert a blasted landscape filled with sad reminders of what has been lost Rayn and Luk must brave the perils of this arid land of fierce beasts savage sandstorms and hidden dangers if they re going to reach the Beastlands beyond They will encounter new enemies and discover precious new allies Rayn s suspicions about the results of Luk s Sojourn Lottery continues to grow but she must put those doubts aside if they have any chance of surviving what s coming The Deadlands will push them to their breaking points while testing the strength of their bond Their only goal Survival Sojourn The Deadlands Rayn Mirago Saga 2.

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I live in the Pittsburgh area enduring the seemingly endless winters and the sometimes brutally hot summers, If Im not writingwhich is almost never I love hiking and movies, If I m not writingwhich is almost never I love hiking and movies, I read the first of these books and thoroughly enjoyed it and I m glad to note that the standard hasn t fallen any with book two: There are a couple spelling grammar mistakes throughout but nothing that most books don t have anyway. I loved this book I think you will too the only thing I d recommend is that you read the first in the series before embarking on this one: I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy adventure dystopian and post apocolyptic with light romance. While I did enjoy this bookthe romance between the main characters was overdone for my tastes. It was an interesting book and I would reccomend it to anyone who enjoys the YA post apocalyptic genre.Such a good book no series Such a good series