After World War Last, everything changed. A tiny refuge, tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, The Vista, has survived on its own. Team Three – Wade, MacKenzie, and Allen – young, ambitious, and ready to do whatever it takes to protect their home. Backlash, prequel to The Wildblood series. Set on a near-future Earth mostly devoid of humans, this reveals some of the harsh realities facing people … devoid of humans, this reveals some of the harsh realities facing people of The Vista, and how Team Three began. When Security faces an unknown adversary that threatens to wreak havoc across what little civilization is left, they must rely on the unusual abilities of a new team, and hope it’s enough to stop the chaos.
The Wildblood Series
No one remembers what started the war, the big one. Civilization stopped, and what came next was fueled by rage and fear.
Twenty years on, a tiny refuge, a place called The Vista, may be one of the last vestiges of humanity. Isolated, guarded, and hiding a dark secret, the people have survived World War Last, and they are content with that. Their children, however, are not. The search for others will send them out into a world they know nothing about, where the line between enemy and ally is blurred.
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“Backkash” was my first “taste” of Hoag’s writing. “Backlash” at less than seventy pages is like an “appetizer” whetting my figurative reader’s “tastebuds” for more! I look forward to reading a “main course” from Hoag in future.
The author does a superb job of packing an immense amount of world building and character development into a, relatively, small package.
I strongly recommend this book!
In the interest of transparency: I was given a free review copy of this book and I am voluntarily sharing this review.
It is my own honest opinion.
After civilization is almost decimated, a group of specially trained people have the responsibility of keeping the survivors safe. The book is well written and I can’t wait to read the next one.
Bloodlines: Book 3 of The Wildblood is finally out and, since it’s been a while, I decided to binge on the whole series, starting with S. A. Hoag’s Backlash: Prequel to The Wildblood Series (which you can still get for free on Kindle). It’s funny as I’m not usually a fan of dystopian or post-apocalypse tales but this post “World War Last” series just sucked me in. The author story-building is just perfect, from Vista, the home enclave of the series’ lead characters, to the “Altered” clans (and the truth about them), and the remnants of civilization desperately hanging on (and can’t forget Russian controlled Texas, which in some ways makes me laugh to think about). Action, intrigue, secrets, twists and turns and turns, this series has it all. The prequel here was “5 stars” in my opinion and, if anything, that score has only deserved to increase (even if it’s not possible to do). I love the complex but totally clear overarching story arc, the strong individual book plots, the superbly crafted characters and the way everything actually fits together and works. This series has been totally (surprisingly for me considering my bias against the genre) absorbing and addictive. Totally binge-worthy (it’s 6 am on Sunday and I just spent the night reading, so I mean that literally) and wonderful. But for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises. The series – and each of its individual books – definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that each book in this series, from prequel to each of books 1 to 3, is most definitely “one to read”, and it is easy to highly recommend all of them. My only caveat here is that this series is most definitely one that cannot be picked up in the middle (though the prequel can be skipped, even though you’d be missing a good book if you did so).
An excellent start to this exciting new series from S A Hoag! A good prequel, grabbed my interest from the start & I will look for more by this writer! I do recommend this story!