Title: 1986
Author: Morgan Parker
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Allana Harrison wanted out. She wanted to escape her painful, broken past and enjoy a fresh start somewhere else. Anywhere else. And while all of the boys in high school and college promised to deliver that dream, only one man actually pulled through.
Now a young adult, Allana finds herself on the opposite side of the world, in a prosperous and rich town that's not only isolated from her past, but from the crime, grime and hustle of bigger cities, in a country where she doesn't understand the language or know anybody else except her husband. And that's how she likes it.
Until she meets Alex, another American who ends up being her only other friend, the one person who reminds her of what it's like to feel desired, wanted and hungered for.
Except Alex has motives. And Alex has questions -- about her husband's work at the world's most-advanced, leading-edge power station, questions he wants answered... and when Allana can no longer provide them, Alex threatens to reveal the secrets of their forbidden past, secrets that will destroy the man that saved her.
Caught between two men -- one she loves and the other she can't help but love -- Allana must deliberate the role she plays in the moments leading to humankind's greatest disaster... in 1986.
3 stars - REVIEWED BY WENDY
I have enjoyed previous books from Morgan. There is always a sense of real in them. With the backdrop being the Chernobyl disaster, I was interested to see how it would all play out. The sense of suspense was lurking in the background.
Allana moved to Ukraine with her husband Vasy from the US. He is in charge of a nuclear power plant there. With her husband spending so much time at work, Allana was lonely. Enter Alex, another American who also works at the same power plant. With getting so much attention from Alex, Allana finds herself in a dilemma. But the romantic interest from Alex wasn’t the only thing that Allana would have to worry about. There was something bigger that was going to happen.
There was definitely more to both Vasy and Alex than meets the eye. As I was reading I was trying to decipher everything and anything. The secrets that were rampant throughout the story were captivating. What were the roles that Alex and Vasy played in the nuclear power plant? What was the angle? What was really going on? These are just a couple of questions that will come up as you read this book. Morgan really makes you think about it all with this story. I felt that it did get really interesting towards the end of the book and I was very intrigued about how it would go. There wasn’t a lot of romance in the story and I was fine with that. The story was so much bigger than that aspect. Initially I did not like Allana but as the book got to the meatier part where the nuclear power plant became the star, I did find her fascinating-like what role was she going to play? That is where the story got captivating for me-the impending disaster and complications. All I wanted to know was “where was this going?”
Overall, this was a good read. Morgan’s writing was great and I did enjoy the theories that I came across as I was reading. This was definitely a story that will get your mind reeling.
Allana moved to Ukraine with her husband Vasy from the US. He is in charge of a nuclear power plant there. With her husband spending so much time at work, Allana was lonely. Enter Alex, another American who also works at the same power plant. With getting so much attention from Alex, Allana finds herself in a dilemma. But the romantic interest from Alex wasn’t the only thing that Allana would have to worry about. There was something bigger that was going to happen.
There was definitely more to both Vasy and Alex than meets the eye. As I was reading I was trying to decipher everything and anything. The secrets that were rampant throughout the story were captivating. What were the roles that Alex and Vasy played in the nuclear power plant? What was the angle? What was really going on? These are just a couple of questions that will come up as you read this book. Morgan really makes you think about it all with this story. I felt that it did get really interesting towards the end of the book and I was very intrigued about how it would go. There wasn’t a lot of romance in the story and I was fine with that. The story was so much bigger than that aspect. Initially I did not like Allana but as the book got to the meatier part where the nuclear power plant became the star, I did find her fascinating-like what role was she going to play? That is where the story got captivating for me-the impending disaster and complications. All I wanted to know was “where was this going?”
Overall, this was a good read. Morgan’s writing was great and I did enjoy the theories that I came across as I was reading. This was definitely a story that will get your mind reeling.
As the author of the best-selling mystery romance, Surviving Goodbye, Morgan Parker has written several other novels under this pen name. In 2012 and 2013, he self-published Textual Encounters and Textual Encounters: 2, respectively. As a result of the interest in these two stories, he wrote non friction, an unconventional love story. That love story earned Mr. Parker a tremendous amount of attention and at the insistence of his readers, he followed it with Hope (a novella) and Sick Day. All three of those stories have spent time on Amazon best-seller lists.
When not writing, Morgan likes to spend time gathering story material from his two young children, rereading books by Colin Harrison, and napping where he discovered the Type II Sleep State, which is the topic for an untitled trilogy to be released in late-2016.
When not writing, Morgan likes to spend time gathering story material from his two young children, rereading books by Colin Harrison, and napping where he discovered the Type II Sleep State, which is the topic for an untitled trilogy to be released in late-2016.
No comments:
Post a Comment