Planet Urth (Book 1) The world has changed. It’s dangerous, deadly. Inhuman creatures rule the planet. Animals have mutated. The land is hostile. But it’s all I’ve ever known. Hunger. Fear. Panic. Those emotions are my reality. They are my every day. I am Avery, and I am seventeen. My father died a year ago. Since then I’ve been responsible for my eight-year-old sister, June. I worry we are the … we are the only humans left.
Humans have been hunted for centuries, to the brink of extinction. I must fight each day to protect my sister. It is the reason I wake, the reason I breathe. But how long can I go on fighting? How long will it be before they find us?
More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained unaffected. Most changed dramatically and evolved into something else entirely. Irrevocable alterations caused by chemical warfare have created a new species. North America is in ruins and has been overtaken. Humanity has fallen at the hands of mutants known as Urthmen.
Seventeen year-old Avery is alive and unchanged. But she has not been immune to the harshness of the new world. She has lived on the run for much of her life, in terror.
After losing her father, Avery is the sole guardian of her eight-year-old sister, June. Avery is now charged with June’s safety as well as her own, a nearly impossible task.
Forced to hide deep in the forest and away from the cities overrun by Urthmen, Avery and her sister are constantly hunted. Danger awaits them at every turn. They fear they are the only human beings left, that they are the last of their kind.
But are they truly alone?
Planet Urth: The Savage Lands (Book 2)
After fleeing the only refuge she’s known for much of her life, Avery, along with her sister June and new friends, Will, Oliver and Riley forge through the forest to uncharted territory in search of a better life, in search of other survivors. But Avery soon learns that life beyond the woods is far worse than she ever imagined. She finds that safety does not exist for human beings in a world run by Urthmen.
Hope seems futile.
But Avery refuses to surrender hope and chooses, instead, to push forward and move her group into the heart of danger, to seek out more humans.
Will she and the others survive their journey into the savage lands of Planet Urth?
Planet Urth: The Underground City (Book 3)
We can’t stay out here in the open any longer. We killed the king’s son. It’s only a matter of time before his people find us, before they slaughter us all. We need to leave now. We need to make it to the underground city.
Avery, June and their friends are being hunted. They need to find fuel so that they can travel across the country to the underground city, to a place where humans live safely, free from the terrors above ground. But once they make it there, will it be the idyllic paradise they imagine it to be or will it be worse than the current nightmare in which they live?
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Thoroughly enjoyed. So much so that I had to purchase the follow-on books.
New take on post-nuclear-apocalyptic USA. Good thought went into this sub-creation for logic. Best Dystopian I’ve read in awhile.
Although some of the scenarios are a little stretched, the trilogy is good. I got the trilogy free; I wanted it because I had already read the first one. Some little things at inconsistent: did puerile have working zippers 200 years age the apocalypse? The 17 year old girl had an amazing vocabulary for having been on her own for a year. I think this is a novel for Young adults, but I enjoy it and am going to read it all the easy through.
Great Book I have a new wrter to watch for
Entertaining, looking forward to reading rest of series.
Really loved this series
I really started to care for these people and their struggles.
Not realistic enough to make it believable. Needs more character and world development. A simple easy read, slightly entertaining, not interesting enough to read the other books in the series.
Average post apocalyptic story. To much of teens overcoming the mean adults.
For young adults, I believe. Post apocalyptic, some good characters, plenty of teen angst.
A good read.
I think this series is aimed at a young adult audience. Some parts of it reminded me of the box car children’s books.
This book was very simple, and unimaginative at the end. Disappointed.
Could not read as the font was very small
I liked these books but have no desire to get the rest of the series. The premise is just too outlandish to be compelling.
I didn’t love it. Writing and consistency were not great.
I thought the first book was great, but the second was kind of a repetition of the base of the first and I found it boring. Maybe great for young adults or teenagers
A little stilted, but a good read
Was a little easy to guess what was going to happen, and a little cliche.
This is written for a pre-teen,i.e. someone who has never been kissed. The endless descriptions of one of the characters not understanding her emotional stirrings for the opposite sex took away from the action that at times was great. Not a well thought through plot, but I did like most of the characters.