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A Single Light (Howard Books), by Tosca Lee, is the follow up to The Line Between (click the link to see that review). The Line Between had me at the first paragraph, seeing as it was the best opening paragraph I've ever read. In A Single Light we meet Wynter Roth again who in the first book escaped an apocalyptic cult to enter a world in which the apocalypse seems imminent. She has the answer to save the human kind and is unfortunately the worlds most wanted "criminal."
In the opening of this new novel Wynter is sealed in an underground bunker/silo in which the strangers she is stuck there with do NOT know the important part she played in the events that led them all to their current situation nor that she knows any more information than they do. The strangers seem to be cooperating and thriving in the underground silo until one person decides he's going to force the door open and then the system malfunctions. People get hurt. People die. They've lost all contact with the little they still had of the outside world and have no clue what dangers might be lurking. Nothing is stable anymore. Wynter had come into the silo with four people she cares about. One of the is now gravely injured and depends on antibiotics they do not have in the bunker to live. Another of the four is found out the have been not the protagonist that we knew them to be but the ANTAGONIST!! AND MY MIND WAS BLOWN!! I couldn't stop now!
Wynter decides to venture into the world to find out what happened and to find the vital medicine that will save her friend. They quickly find a mute young man (insert new favorite character) in a world where it is not safe to be different. He adds humor and warmth to a fast paced action packed story and I only wish I got to read about him more.
Tosca Lee is a brilliant story teller and no two books are ever the same. I highly recommend reading this book, but I do recommend reading the other book first so your mind can be blown by the gut punches she places in this one as well.
Gold star to you if you can recommend another series/or stand alone that has that cult feel to it. I've read my fair share of apocolyptic but not cult stories.
A Single Light is released in just over 1 hour! September 17, 2019.
A copy of this book was provided to me for review by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks Tosca, as always, for selecting me as part of your street team!
