Pulse by Linore Burkard Book Review and Giveaway

- July 21, 2019

ABOUT THE BOOK

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?

Book: Pulse Linore Burkard Author: Linore Burkard

Genre: Christian YA/Apocalyptic Suspense

Release date: August 24, 2015

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MY BOOK REVIEW

"Pulse" is the first book of Linore Burkard's series. It is all about surviving life when our electrical grid goes down worldwide.

Linore Burkard has a unique writing style. She had the story be told through journal entries of each of these three teen girls in Wintery, Ohio. Burkard is written into three parts. Each part focuses on one girl at a time. The stories are told in the first person. Each story starts on January 11th. Each girl has a different take on the disaster. Burkard seems to have done her research.

Part 1 - Andrea Patterson, who is 16 years old. She lives on farm in a strong Christian family.

Part 2 - Lexie Martin who is 16 years old - lives in a rural home with her family totally unprepared for this type of disaster.

Part 3 = Sarah Weaver who is 16 years old and lives in an apartment in the city.

I found "Pulse" to be really scary because this could actually happen. Burkard did a wonderful of making this book seem like it is actually happening right now. I felt for each girl. I couldn't help but be worried about these girls and their families.

The story covers topics we are dealing with right now such as guns, how biased the media is, judgment on America. It also touches on many issues such as stealing and even killing others to survive. Teens already have a hard time in life and then you add technology and electricity become nonexistent. I never even thought about if the power goes out there we will eventually lose water too.

I found this book really hard to put down. The pace was well done. Yes, there is some repeated information due to reading each girl going through the disaster, but it didn't make it drag or become boring. Each girl told the story of the event in a different way. However, at times there were preachy politics. This got old. We saw how each of these girls uses their faith to get through this difficult time in their lives.

This is a book is geared more towards teens adults. However, I would like to note the book does touch on some adult materials. There isn't much teen romantic angst. There are some sexual content topics such as wondering about a man who might be a porn addict then he touches a girl's arm later, rape, abortion, periods, virgins, sex. A creep asks Andrea's father to sell her to him and he will give Andrea's family food. There is some minor cussing, fighting, drinking, and shooting each other. "Pulse" is edgy but not too graphic when it comes to having to survive something like this. I felt at times "Pulse" was a little on the preachy side when it comes to politics. It got old at times.

The biggest thing I took away from reading this is we rely really heavily on our technology and take everything for granted and we shouldn't do that. I would recommend reading this book. I am looking forward to reading the second book in this series.

I received a complimentary digital copy of this book from Celeblit for my honest opinion. This is my honest

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.”

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Twitter: @LinoreRBurkard

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?

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