Ebook {Epub PDF} If Darkness Takes Us by Brenda Marie Smith

 · If Darkness Takes Us by Brenda Marie Smith. GENRE: post-apocalyptic science-fiction. BLURB: In suburban Austin, Texas, Bea Crenshaw secretly prepares for apocalypse, but when a solar pulse destroys modern life, she’s left alone with four grandkids whose parents don’t return home.  · Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for If Darkness Takes Us by Brenda Marie Smith, a post-apocalyptic science-fiction, available now from SFK Press. The tour will run June 28 - July 23, and Brenda Marie Smith is available for guest post and interviews. A PDF or mobi copy of the book will be available by May 24 for review in conjunction with a guest post or interview.  · She and her husband reside in a grid-connected, solar-powered home in South Austin, Texas. They have more grown kids and grandkids than they can count. Her first novel, Something Radiates, is a paranormal romantic thriller; If Darkness Takes Us and its sequel, If the Light Escapes, are post-apocalyptic science fiction.

Jodi rated it it was amazing. Dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction is a genre that favors the young. Teenagers, and the occasional twenty-somethings, tend to be the stars. Brenda Marie Smith turns that around in If Darkness Takes Us. Bea Crenshaw, the narrator and main character, is a year-old grandmother. Book Review: "If the Light Escapes" by Brenda Marie Smith Aug Aug ~ Susannah Willey At the end of Brenda Marie Smith's novel, If Darkness Takes Us, things were looking up for Bea Crenshaw—but only in the sense that life had nowhere to go but up. Book Review: "If Darkness Takes Us" by Brenda Marie Smith. Novem ~ Susannah Willey. Imagine you're an old lady, settled in your ways, just you and the old man. And then the power goes off: a solar pulse has disrupted the entire energy grid. But it's not just electricity that's been lost. There's no water, no cell phone.

IF DARKNESS TAKES US is a breathtaking tale of heartbreak, survival, and hope, set in contemporary Austin in the aftermath of a devastating electromagnetic pulse. Unlike any other apocalyptic fiction I've read before, Smith filters the story through the eyes of Bea, a sharp-witted, snarky, but kindhearted grandmother with a heart nearly as big as her arsenal. The story's told in the voice of Bea's year-old grandson, Keno Simms, a stalwart young man who must lead his broken family and neighbors to survive life without. At years-old, Brenda Marie Smith is finally having the writing career she's longed for all her life. Her second novel (and the first to be published by someone besides herself), IF DARKNESS TAKES US, won the Southern Fried Karma Novel Contest and was published by SFK Press in October If Darkness Takes Us by Brenda Marie Smith. GENRE: post-apocalyptic science-fiction. BLURB: In suburban Austin, Texas, Bea Crenshaw secretly prepares for apocalypse, but when a solar pulse destroys modern life, she’s left alone with four grandkids whose parents don’t return home.