Year One: Chronicles of The One, Book 1

Nora Roberts

Dec 2017 · Chronicles of The One Book 1 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (December 2017)

A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives...

It began on New Year’s Eve.

The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed—and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.

Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river—or in the ones you know and love the most.

As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.

In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.

The end has come. The beginning comes next.

Ratings and reviews

Year One, the first of a trilogy by Nora Roberts, is not her standard fare. The Doom - an evil sickness - is released upon mankind and a pandemic kills billions of people. But The Doom also gives those with "something extra" powers that can be used for good or evil. I had a difficult time with the first chapters, but hang in there. The second book of this series, Of Blood and Bone, will be released on December 4, 2018.

I honestly can't finish this book. I always finish books no matter how bad, but this is bad. The writing is horrible. The dialogue is horrible. The characters are insanely underdeveloped and, for that matter, character and plot development just don't exist in this book. It reads like someone's super rough draft of a book that had potential but was left in that rough draft state. Never flushing out the dialogue or scene setting. I can't get through it. Lord knows how this author is a #1 best selling author. Have mercy on us all.

This book was amazing!! I'm sure that everyone has worried about the end of the world as we know it. This book lets you live it. I can't wait to read the next book in this trilogy!!!

About the author

NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Come Sundown, The Obsession,The Liar, The Collector, Whiskey Beach, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Maryland.