Apocalyptic Themes Dominating Our Bookshelves and Imaginations

The Living - The fight begins when you survive. 
Written by Matt de la Pena

Shy Espinoza, a young, hispanic teenage boy from southern California gets offered the summer job of a lifetime; cabin boy on one of the most luxurious cruise ships in the Pacific Ocean. It's his "game changing" dream job that will help him afford school when term starts in the fall. Shy is the kind of kid who might be the perfect friend. He is loyal, honest, dependable, and hard working.  People like him because of his sensitive nature.  How could someone like Shy get caught in a conspiracy involving some of the most wealthy people on earth, beautiful women, a global epidemic, and catastrophic natural disasters?

People are drawn to Shy.  They might even tell him their most dearest, or darkest secrets.  Shy finds himself alone with a mysterious rich passenger, and this guy has some very serious personal issues.  After the stranger shares some very intimate details, and a lavish diamond ring, Shy is suddenly the thread holding the man from falling seven stories to the depths and death of the Pacific Ocean. The wheels of fate have begun to spiral out of control like a lopsided bicycle tire. Dishonesty and bravery are now his weapons for survival. Who can he trust now as has to protect global security through one of the worst natural disasters in recorded global history?

Matt de la Pena does an amazing job combining natural and human disasters in an action packed, suspenseful thriller that ends like many other great thriller series' on the book shelves today.  This hidden gem of a novel will leave you running to the media center to check out the next book.  You will want to know what really happens to Shy as the secrets start to unravel in the aftermath of "Titanic like" disasters mother nature and mankind can throw at humanity.

Have you read any action thrillers lately? I'm not talking about the movies. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, I Am Number Four by Pitticus Lore, and Divergent by Veronica Roth were all great books first.  How about reading a great book before the movie.  Can a movie wreck a good book?  Can a movie be better?  Explain it to me.  Why do I always feel the book is better?

Author, Peter Abrahams's Echo Falls Mysteries

Here's an author many readers may have missed

Once in a while I am desperate for a book to read over the weekend, so I'll just pull what looks good off of the shelf.  This fall I got lucky with a book called Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams. This book is part one in a three part series that the author calls, The Echo Falls Mysteries. Of course, as most great books will do, I was now motivated to read the rest of the series and other books by Peter Abrahams.

Down the Rabbit Hole introduces the reader to thirteen year old Ingrid Levin-Hill.  Ingrid coincidentally makes the acquaintance of Crazy Kate, and unfortunately leaves her red soccer shoes behind.  Little did Ingrid know that her shoes would become important evidence in the murder of Crazy Kate later that day.  Follow Ingrid as she uses her Sherlock Holmes like intuitions to clear her name, solve Crazy Kate's murder, and curiously discover many other secrets about the residents of Echo Falls.

Peter Abrahams follows up his first book with two more Echo Falls Mysteries, Behind the Curtain and Into the Dark.  Now that the dirt on the residents of Echo Falls has come to the surface in book one, the reader gets to follow Ingrid as she finds herself caught in the secrets, deceptions, and relationships of Echo Falls. Some of these secrets the residents, and even her own family, may be dying to keep.

Peter Abrahams has written many books for young readers.  There is something for everyone, even the most reluctant readers.  If you are in need a good book this weekend, or over break, why not give one of his books a try. Click here to see a list of all Peter Abraham's book. If you have read a book by Peter Abrahams, feel free to tell me about it here.