{"id":3308,"date":"2014-05-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2014-05-05T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T20:37:07","slug":"after-the-end-by-amy-plum-book-review-what-war-what-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3308","title":{"rendered":"After the End, by Amy Plum (book review) &#8211; what war? what secrets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/After-the-End.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3694\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=3694\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/After-the-End.jpg?fit=429%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"429,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/After-the-End.jpg?fit=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/After-the-End.jpg?fit=429%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3694\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/After-the-End-198x300.jpg?resize=198%2C300\" alt=\"book cover of After the End by Amy Plum published by HarperTeen\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/After-the-End.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/After-the-End.jpg?w=429&amp;ssl=1 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxcrawl.com\/2013\/01\/14\/nostradamus-predicted-world-war-iii-in-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">World War III<\/a>&#8216;s aftermath,<br \/>\nonly one clan survives,<br \/>\ndeep in Alaska&#8217;s wilderness&#8230;<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s all a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Told in alternating chapters by Juneau and Miles, this roadtrip adventure with paranormal underpinnings and dueling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ethan-rome\/big-pharma-could-win-inte_b_4310643.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big Pharma<\/a> teams as pursuers is first in a two-book series by the author of <em>Die For Me<\/em> (my review of If I Die series volume 1 <a title=\"Die For Me (fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/2011\/07\/die-for-me-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Today is the book birthday of <em>After the End<\/em>, so ask for it at your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\">local library<\/a> or favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\">independent bookstore<\/a> and hit the road with two unlikely allies (don&#8217;t forget the PopTarts).<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0 After the End \/ Amy Plum. HarperTeen, 2014. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyplumbooks.com\/books\/after-the-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harperteen.com\/books\/After-End-Amy-Plum\/?isbn=9780062225603\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f9yL0o5Uw-k\" target=\"_blank\">author video<\/a> introducing <em>After the End<\/em>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My book talk<\/strong>: When her clan is taken, Juneau must enter a modern world she thought was destroyed and convince a rebellious teen guy to help her find them while staying clear of the kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau can Read glimpses of the future through the Yara in everything, but now the 17-year-old sage in training must grapple with the lies her clan&#8217;s adults taught about fleeing World War III&#8217;s devastation by settling in the Alaskan wilderness 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kinda-sorta hijacked into a road trip with this crazy survivalist girl, Miles plans to bring Juneau to Blackwell Pharmaceutical and get back into his dad&#8217;s good graces, but then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Zigzagging from Mount Rainier to Salt Lake City, pursued by her former mentor and his dad&#8217;s goons, Juneau and Miles try to unravel cryptic prophecies in a race to find her father and her clan whose members never get sick, never grow old.\u00a0 First in a two book series. (One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In World War III&#8216;s aftermath, only one clan survives, deep in Alaska&#8217;s wilderness&#8230; but it&#8217;s all a lie. Told in alternating chapters by Juneau and Miles, this roadtrip adventure with paranormal underpinnings and dueling Big Pharma teams as pursuers is first in a two-book series by the author of Die For Me (my review of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19,41],"tags":[90,7,4,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,44,43,39,38,27,49,15,21,66,35,33,3,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}