Year One

by Nora Roberts

English language

Published Dec. 5, 2017 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-12295-7

(12 reviews)

"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, magic 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..."--

11 editions

ManyRoads reviewed Year One by Nora Roberts

Review of 'Year One' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A very entertaining read with good characters, difficult theme issues, an adequate number of plot twists. Generally this first in the series, does a very good job of setting the table for further conflict, challenge and character development. Nice dystopian 'stuff'.

Chungledown Bim reviewed Year One by Nora Roberts

Review of 'Year One' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Started off amazing then just petered off after the first few chapters through silly to dull. Competently written, I finished it in the hopes it’d get gripping again, but nah. It’s short, & light (that is to say it’s not difficult to read; linear plot, simple English), maybe good holiday reading? Not good quarantine reading what with the whole deadly plague aspect, lol

Tim reviewed Year One by Nora Roberts

Review of 'Year One' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This was a very entertaining book. It's my first Nora Robers read. She did a good job developing memorable characters and the plot is right in my wheelhouse. The sci-fi/fantasy concept usually makes me stop reading a book worked for me this time. I'll read the sequels for sure.