Something is hunting the inhabitants of RavarFor three generations, the colonists on Ravar have been stranded on a harsh planet, forced to survive in a desert environment where only the scrappiest animals and the heartiest plants survive. Most live without the foolish hope that Earth’s supply ships will ever grace the skies again.Trapped in a sandstorm, Neena Xylance struggles to make her way … struggles to make her way back to her colony. What she doesn’t know is that she isn’t alone, and what she finds might destroy the last of the fragile life on her planet.
Book 1 of the SANDSTORM series.
Book 2 WINDSWEPT available now!
Book 3 coming Winter 2018/2019.
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Piperbrook does it again. This time, he takes you to an imaginitive sci-fi world full of danger and mystery. A must read.
T.W.’s one of the most inventive post-apocalyptic writers around! This one is on sale for 99 cents.
Tyler Piperbrook has done a masterful job of taking me from my green, verdant home to a stark, unforgiving desert of a planet. We follow Neena and her family, Raj and Samel. Neena is the hunter of the family, a young girl responsible for her brothers after their parents die. Raj is only 10, Samel is 6. Neena goes out from Red Rock village into the desert to hunt, knowing that game is becoming more and more scarce but needing to feed the boys. While several days from home, a powerful sandstorm strikes. Neena manages to find a shallow cave, enough to shelter her from the fierce winds. Meanwhile, Raj and Samel and the rest of the village have to face the same sandstorm. The aftermath of the storm is traumatic for everyone. I really liked this book.
I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read the next one. I did find a few areas where I could tell what was going to happen next, which I really don’t like! But this author is great – I have read every book by this author and can’t wait for the next one.
Sorry, but Maud’dib is still the One.
Actually, this short book is for a young adult audience.
Good story line with great characters!
Loved the book and characters.
I really liked the book right up until it ended without resolving major plot issues. I refuse to buy another book because of this and absolutely do not recommend it. Too much was left unresolved.
Sandstorm, a fictional dystopian SyFy story, had too many elements from other similar books to make it stand out. The setting of the story is a desert mining planet, its inhabitants unexpectantly abandon by earth generations ago. The population of the planet is left to their own means to survive, including hunting and salvaging for food, water, and materials. The possibility of vicious sandstorms occurring is an ever-present danger, especially for the hunters who hunt the desert for food and have little shelter to protect them from the storms.
The story’s main character is a lone hunter named Neena, who is caught in a violent sandstorm. She encounters another hunter from an unknown colony and they must ally to survive. Neena also learns of a new deadly threat, a giant man-eating earthworm that has the ability to track its prey by vibration on the planet’s surface (sound familiar).
The other characters in the story add to the human element and include the struggles for survival in such a desolate environment and political totalitarian atmosphere.
It was fun.
eld my attention and that is saying quite a lot!
Good solid read.
Not a whole lot to say, It was good up until the end. It left you with no where to go except the next book which I will not be getting
Book 1 in a series, and it is not a stand-alone story. Cliff-hanger ending, just when the story was getting interesting.