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The Pulse Trilogy #2
The Escape
In Book Two of the erotic dystopian Pulse Trilogy, Jenna escapes New York City only to be tracked down by a soldier who might be her only hope of survival.
Jenna doesn't know if she believes what Emily and Mason told her--that America is rebuilding and a better life awaits her outside of Manhattan. But with the power grid down and no connection to the outside world, Jenna will die if she stays at Grand Central's FEMA camp, selling her body to soldiers.
Private Ken Barker is sent to capture Jenna when she escapes--but Jenna knows he's one of the good guys and tries to seduce him into joining her. Their passionate sex kindles something even stronger than lust between them, and when Barker goes back to Grand Central he sees the horrors there with new eyes.
Now it's his turn to escape the city, and he knows he must take Jenna with him or she'll die at the camp. On the road, they'll start a new life together, hoping against hope that the electricity between them will prove more than just a spark--that together they might finally light up their dark nights.
Jenna doesn't know if she believes what Emily and Mason told her--that America is rebuilding and a better life awaits her outside of Manhattan. But with the power grid down and no connection to the outside world, Jenna will die if she stays at Grand Central's FEMA camp, selling her body to soldiers.
Private Ken Barker is sent to capture Jenna when she escapes--but Jenna knows he's one of the good guys and tries to seduce him into joining her. Their passionate sex kindles something even stronger than lust between them, and when Barker goes back to Grand Central he sees the horrors there with new eyes.
Now it's his turn to escape the city, and he knows he must take Jenna with him or she'll die at the camp. On the road, they'll start a new life together, hoping against hope that the electricity between them will prove more than just a spark--that together they might finally light up their dark nights.
265 pages, Paperback
First published January 13, 2014
About the author
Shoshanna Evers
48 books479 followersNew York Times and USA Today New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Shoshanna Evers has written dozens of sexy stories since her debut in 2010, including Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining), The Man Who Holds the Whip, and I Am Not Your Melody, all of which hit the bestseller lists in box sets. Among her most popular books are The Tycoon’s Convenient Bride...and Baby, Overheated, The Enslaved Trilogy, How to Write Hot Sex, and the controversial novella Held Captive by the Cavemen.
Shoshanna Evers has been listed on Amazon as one of the "Most Popular Authors in Romance," as well as on the Contemporary Romance, and Erotica "Most Popular Authors" lists.
Reviewers have called Shoshanna’s writing “fast paced, intense, and sexual…every naughty fantasy come to life for the reader” with stories where “the plot is fresh and the pacing excellent, the emotions…real and poignant.”
Ms. Evers is also the cofounder of SelfPubBookCovers.com, the largest selection of instantly customizable, one-of-a-kind, premade book covers in the world.
Shoshanna used to work as a syndicated advice columnist and a registered nurse, but now she’s a full-time smut writer and a home-schooling mom. She lives in the mountains of north Idaho with her family and three big dogs, and loves to connect with readers on Twitter @ShoshannaEvers, and Facebook at facebook.com/shoshanna.evers. Visit her on the web at ShoshannaEvers.com for excerpts, contests and updates!
She welcomes emails from readers and writers, and loves to interact on Twitter and Facebook.
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Blogs:
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@ShoshannaEvers
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Shoshanna Evers has been listed on Amazon as one of the "Most Popular Authors in Romance," as well as on the Contemporary Romance, and Erotica "Most Popular Authors" lists.
Reviewers have called Shoshanna’s writing “fast paced, intense, and sexual…every naughty fantasy come to life for the reader” with stories where “the plot is fresh and the pacing excellent, the emotions…real and poignant.”
Ms. Evers is also the cofounder of SelfPubBookCovers.com, the largest selection of instantly customizable, one-of-a-kind, premade book covers in the world.
Shoshanna used to work as a syndicated advice columnist and a registered nurse, but now she’s a full-time smut writer and a home-schooling mom. She lives in the mountains of north Idaho with her family and three big dogs, and loves to connect with readers on Twitter @ShoshannaEvers, and Facebook at facebook.com/shoshanna.evers. Visit her on the web at ShoshannaEvers.com for excerpts, contests and updates!
She welcomes emails from readers and writers, and loves to interact on Twitter and Facebook.
Sexily *Evers* After... ShoshannaEvers.com
Blogs:
TheWritersChallenge.com
ShoshannaEvers.com/blog
@ShoshannaEvers
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September 9, 2015
I have an affliction - my brain does not let me start something without finishing it and with some things, which i find boring or distasteful, i would drag them on for ever, but eventually i will finish them. I could not finish this book. It was very poorly written and the story, even for my very low expectations of erotic stories as a whole, was just unbearable!!! I give up! 0.1 star. if that is possible....
January 18, 2015
This is a dystopian, almost apocalyptic series. An EMP has gone off shutting everything down in the US. Most of the population has died.
Book one was pretty good so I'm finally on to book two. Book one was about a couple escaping New York. Martial law is in effect, and the ones in charge are cruel and insane. Book two gives us glimpses into what that couple is doing now as well as other escapees and the camp from which they broke out.
I didn't like book two as much because I feel the story is becoming too broad maybe. By the end of book two, I felt like the third book would not be enough to finish all that was started in book two. The series arc feels like it's just going to get bigger instead of heading toward a conclusion. There may be too much going on for me to feel the connection I felt with book one.
I did like how the storyline makes you think about things you never would in our current world. All the things we would miss...like google search and socks. It brought up points that I never would have thought like how many foods do not have viable seeds in order to grow more because of genetic engineering.
I have no idea exactly which direction the storyline is going but it appears to be war.
If you're looking a end of the world type read that's erotic and occasionally dark themed (flashes of nonconsensual sex and torture), you should check this out.
***Copy given in exchange for an honest review***
FULL REVIEW CAN BE FOUND AT http://fangirlmomentsandmytwocents.bl...
Book one was pretty good so I'm finally on to book two. Book one was about a couple escaping New York. Martial law is in effect, and the ones in charge are cruel and insane. Book two gives us glimpses into what that couple is doing now as well as other escapees and the camp from which they broke out.
I didn't like book two as much because I feel the story is becoming too broad maybe. By the end of book two, I felt like the third book would not be enough to finish all that was started in book two. The series arc feels like it's just going to get bigger instead of heading toward a conclusion. There may be too much going on for me to feel the connection I felt with book one.
I did like how the storyline makes you think about things you never would in our current world. All the things we would miss...like google search and socks. It brought up points that I never would have thought like how many foods do not have viable seeds in order to grow more because of genetic engineering.
"I'm thinking how strange it is, how perfectly normal people have become prostitutes, thieves, rapists, and murderers. How did that happen?"
I have no idea exactly which direction the storyline is going but it appears to be war.
If you're looking a end of the world type read that's erotic and occasionally dark themed (flashes of nonconsensual sex and torture), you should check this out.
***Copy given in exchange for an honest review***
FULL REVIEW CAN BE FOUND AT http://fangirlmomentsandmytwocents.bl...
April 11, 2014
Set in a post-apocalyptic New York, the trilogy continues in this second book. Having read the whole trilogy before actually having time to write a review for this book, I have to say that this is my favorite book by far because of the heroine Jenna.
Jenna is a very interesting main female character, because before the electromagnetic pulse wiped off the grid she was in part hiding from her own sexuality. Living in the pecking order FEMA camp allowed her to explore, indulge, and discover her power as a sexual being in the camp-operated brothel called the Tracks. She could not have done so in the pre-FEMA days. So when she was informed of life beyond the Tracks and was given the choice to leave the camp, she chose to stay with the life she did know--until her life was threatened and she made a run for it. However, her lifestyle in the Tracks also came at a price and she discovers that she may very well be a sexual addict, someone who copes with stress through sex. Of course, this challenge threatens her budding relationship with Ken Barker, the main male character of this story who was sent to track her down.
Ken Barker, a lawyer before the pulse hit, was initiated as a soldier when he was handed the blood-stained uniform of a dead man and an operating gun. Although by outward appearances, he looks like the soldiers who have fallen into the FEMA camp status quo, he still utilizes his critical thinking capacities, reserves his integrity as a woman-respecting man, and starts to question what he has been told to be true after hunting Jenna down. After contemplating what transpired at and beyond the camp, Ken sees how the FEMA camp has been run and should be run.
When the two finally fall onto the same page (and in the same bed), their feelings for each other grow and they also realize their ultimate challenge is to gain support in helping free the camp so that others may choose how they really want to live. That is where book three, The Thrust, picks up. I definitely recommend this book and the trilogy.
Jenna is a very interesting main female character, because before the electromagnetic pulse wiped off the grid she was in part hiding from her own sexuality. Living in the pecking order FEMA camp allowed her to explore, indulge, and discover her power as a sexual being in the camp-operated brothel called the Tracks. She could not have done so in the pre-FEMA days. So when she was informed of life beyond the Tracks and was given the choice to leave the camp, she chose to stay with the life she did know--until her life was threatened and she made a run for it. However, her lifestyle in the Tracks also came at a price and she discovers that she may very well be a sexual addict, someone who copes with stress through sex. Of course, this challenge threatens her budding relationship with Ken Barker, the main male character of this story who was sent to track her down.
Ken Barker, a lawyer before the pulse hit, was initiated as a soldier when he was handed the blood-stained uniform of a dead man and an operating gun. Although by outward appearances, he looks like the soldiers who have fallen into the FEMA camp status quo, he still utilizes his critical thinking capacities, reserves his integrity as a woman-respecting man, and starts to question what he has been told to be true after hunting Jenna down. After contemplating what transpired at and beyond the camp, Ken sees how the FEMA camp has been run and should be run.
When the two finally fall onto the same page (and in the same bed), their feelings for each other grow and they also realize their ultimate challenge is to gain support in helping free the camp so that others may choose how they really want to live. That is where book three, The Thrust, picks up. I definitely recommend this book and the trilogy.
March 2, 2014
I received this book in return for a honest review through Goodreads Firstreads Giveaways.
I must say that I really was impressed by this series. Going into them, I had half-expected them to be more sex-filled than plot-filled and not a good way. Ms. Evers proved me wrong. She has found a perfect balance between these two options.
In this one, we have Jenna, our main character for this book) trying to escape from New York City. Jenna at first didn't even know if anything would be waiting for her outside of New York City but she had to try and believe what her friends Emily and Mason had told her about the outside. There had to be something better than the life that she had currently been leading and the hope that America was rebuilding spurred her on.All that she knew for certain is that she was going to die in the FEMA camp that she was in if things kept up. So she took her chance. The only problem was that one of the soldiers from the camp is sent to track her down, it is Ken Barker. At first glance one would think that he is like all of the rest but he isn't. He is one of the few good guys left and Jenna tried to seduce him into joining her in her flight. It didn't work. She escaped but not before they started the beginning of something between them. When he returned to the camp without her, he is forced to look at the camp's appalling conditions with new eyes. He couldn't help but be disgusted by what he saw.
In the end, they do make it out of there in one piece but it is not without losses as well as some gains. I won't say much more for it will give away the ending. If you want to know more, read the book and check it out for yourself. You won't regret it. I know I didn't.
I must say that I really was impressed by this series. Going into them, I had half-expected them to be more sex-filled than plot-filled and not a good way. Ms. Evers proved me wrong. She has found a perfect balance between these two options.
In this one, we have Jenna, our main character for this book) trying to escape from New York City. Jenna at first didn't even know if anything would be waiting for her outside of New York City but she had to try and believe what her friends Emily and Mason had told her about the outside. There had to be something better than the life that she had currently been leading and the hope that America was rebuilding spurred her on.All that she knew for certain is that she was going to die in the FEMA camp that she was in if things kept up. So she took her chance. The only problem was that one of the soldiers from the camp is sent to track her down, it is Ken Barker. At first glance one would think that he is like all of the rest but he isn't. He is one of the few good guys left and Jenna tried to seduce him into joining her in her flight. It didn't work. She escaped but not before they started the beginning of something between them. When he returned to the camp without her, he is forced to look at the camp's appalling conditions with new eyes. He couldn't help but be disgusted by what he saw.
In the end, they do make it out of there in one piece but it is not without losses as well as some gains. I won't say much more for it will give away the ending. If you want to know more, read the book and check it out for yourself. You won't regret it. I know I didn't.
September 1, 2016
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1.5 stars
Unfortunately, I didn't like The Escape. I wish I did, but nothing in the story worked for me. All the characters suffered from a serious case of TSTL (too stupid to live). It must be one of those highly contagious diseases people are catching at the FEMA camps mentioned in the book. Because whoa. Their reasoning for doing some of the things they did made zero sense. They rarely used logic. It was unbelievable and a bit hilarious. I have no idea how they managed to survive everything that happened in this book, and I can't comprehend how they're even still living after the 'Pulse,' which happened a year ago and is the reason technology and most humans in America were wiped out. I guess these people are seriously lucky or everyone else around them is just dumber. Those are the only reasons that make sense to me.
I don't want to end this without saying at least something good about The Escape. So, I've thought of three things I liked. One would be that, although I haven't read the first book and all the books in the trilogy are connected, I didn't feel lost while reading this sequel. I was also able to read this fairly quickly. It was easy to get through. The final thing would be that I didn't get a headache, even though I wasn't enjoying it.
If you're still interested in reading this book or the entire trilogy, then that's your choice. I'm not going to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't read. But as for me, The Escape just wasn't for me, and I don't have any plans to read the other books.
December 31, 2015
Not as terrible as the first book, in my opinion, but a little bit better. As a romance, this did not work for me at all. Zilch connection with our heroine, a self-proclaimed sex addict and 'whore', and only a slightly better connection with our Hero, a reformed guard from the infamous Grand Central of the first book. And this lack of connection, despite the writer's use of switching narrative perspectives so that the book is told from alternate points-of-view.
I'm not sure if I will continue on to the third book.
I'm not sure if I will continue on to the third book.
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February 3, 2014Excited to read this!
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