The New York Times and USA Today bestselling series
They dive so humanity survives … thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers—men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.
When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. But there’s something down there far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past—something that threatens the fragile future of humanity.
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Pure scary action. Pulse pounding. Difficult to put down.
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Did not see that coming. Did not like the ending. Enough so that I didn’t read the second book. Yet.
Just awesome world-building. Loved it. Totally unrealistic though, haha!
Great beginning to a excellent series!
I never connected with anything about the story
A little slow building.
Good read, entertaining but far fetched
This was a excellent book. I ended up reading them all. The characters and atmosphere are fasi ating and descriptive. Feels like your there. King day scary if life was like this book. Get it, read it, you wont regret it. Seriously
A good story that will keep you interested all the way through.
Have already read the 2nd book in this series.
Memorable characters, exciting story, and an original premise…I really can’t ask for much more from a book. I do wish the author had wrapped up the story in 3 or 4 books rather than continuing it through 7, but I like it well enough to keep going and am not disappointed.
What an amazing book through and through!
Action packed post apocalypse science fantasy. Fascinating world building. Well worth a read. Leaves the reader excited for the continuation of the series while still telling a complete story. Appropriate for all ages.
Love the series. This first book is great, read it all the way through in a weekend!
i really like the way that you can do three things at once.
this book is amazing, you should read it
Holy cow is this book bad. Great cover…enough to get people to buy it, I guess. But I am floored at how well this book is doing on the Amazon lists. Seriously there are so many flaws in the logic of Smith’s world the book becomes laughable. One example is food. The crew on the floating city blimps is running out of precious food, however they still plenty of raw materials to distill alcohol. This is never addressed. I could go on, but won’t bother. There are like 10 of these books. I can’t imagine they get any better.
Action packed, with an unique premise.
We dive so humanity survives! These are the words the Hell Divers repeat as they dive from airships, soaring above an apocalyptic world.
Hell Divers is set 250 years into the future and the action, horror and suspense never lets up.
I highly recommend reading this. If you love this kind of book, read it now.
did not finish reading it, just not for me.
Set in a toxic Earth after WWIII “Hell Divers” opens with two massive airships -the Hive and Ares-keeping the remnant of mankind from extinction. Both beleaguered and needing repairs the Captain of the Ares after sending a team of Hell Divers into the storm infested and radioactive ruins of Hades radios the Hive for help.
Having returned to the Hive with fuels cells that cost the lives of his team, X is determined leave the Hell Divers and to raise his friend’s son Tin only to hear of the tragic ending to the Ares before a rescue operation could be mounted and to have the Hive critically damaged in a storm in the hostile zone around Hades. Struggling against overwhelming odds and with the fate of mankind resting on their success he and his new team of Hell Divers sets off on a mission to bring back vital parts and power cells for the crippled airship only to face mutated creatures, high winds and lightning as well as a blizzard.
Set in the future mankind’s existence depends on the survival of two mighty airships and the courage of the Hell Divers who risk their lives parachuting into Earth’s hostile environment to bring back the parts necessary to keep them in the air. Woven into an imaginative and intoxicating plot that centers on the Hell Divers success or failure in saving the beleaguered Hive from destruction, is the rebellion of four deck workers, Tin’s struggle to plug up the leak on a gas bladder and Commander Rick Weaver’s fight to stay alive on Hades after the crash of his airship. Fast-paced and action-packed, intensity and suspense escalate when the Hive on a rescue mission is crippled by a storm above the harsh, radioactive environment of Hades. Like every Hell Diver who knows that their life expectancy is short, but that the fate of mankind depends on them, X and his team dive into the unknown to get the parts the Hive needs.
Bringing the story to life are complex and realistic characters like Xavier Rodriguez (“X”) who like all Hell Divers drinks to excess and indulges in sex before a mission. On his 96th jump he’s brave, level-headed, resilient and perceptive. Haunted by his loss he learns to live again through his friend’s son Tin. Similarly, Captain Maria Ash is the strong-willed, visionary who’s in command of the Hive while ten-year-old Tin is the smart, funny and stubborn son of X’s best friend. All infuse the story with emotional-depth, excitement and drama.
I thoroughly enjoyed this first book in the Hell Divers series and look forward to reading the sequel after such a hair-raising ending
World War III happened a long time ago. The Earth is now scorched and uninhabitable. The remains of humanity reside is large air ships that are slowly falling apart. Hell Divers are the only hope left. They make dangerous dives to the planet to scour for anything that could be used to keep the ships afloat. It’s a dangerous job. From the moment they jump they have to worry about massive storms. If they make it to the surface without being fried by lightning, they have to worry about the mutant life forms that now call the planet theirs.
This had everything I could have hoped for. Real life characters, danger and action leaping off the pages, and some nasty mutant creatures. It’s all presented in strong writing. And I used my imagination and several movies to visualize the story.
While I try not too choose a favorite character so I can enjoy them all, one just wouldn’t stop popping into my head. X. Oh, X. How I do love thee!
About the ending. Say it isn’t so! I had to know what would happen next and rushed right over to grab the next book. While there, I went ahead and pre-ordered the third book. Let the fun continue.