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Review – True Light

January 8, 2011 By
I’ve never begun a review of a book where I suggest reading other books before the one I’m reviewing. This review is for True Light, but in actuality it covers all three books. If you want to really enjoy this marvelous series, please start with book one.

Terri Blackstock’s Restoration Series includes Last Light, Night Light and True Light. This series is a gripping saga that begins in Last Light when the world as we know it ends. Cars die, planes fall from the sky, all electricity vanishes, taking every modern convenience we have come to rely on with it and taking the Branning family back to our ancestors’ world without the knowledge, skills, or tools to survive in that hard working lifestyle.

In book 1, Last Light, we find the Brannings struggling to cope with the need to find food, water, and other basic essentials. In Last Light, Blackstock portrays man’s innate need to survive and the lengths we will go to insure that survival. And through all the lawless behavior that stems from that need, including murder, she gives us a family who turns to God instead of following the crowd and comes out far richer for their choice. Night Light and True Light, books two and three, continues with the Brannings’ life without modern conveniences.

I have always enjoyed Terri Blackstock’s work. I’ve read many of her books and enjoy her no nonsense, practical writing style. But in this series she captured me by playing off an event that, though it is almost too impossible to imagine, I found myself fully believing in the possibility of such a meltdown in civilization. Found myself, living in the Brannings’ world and wondering what I would do if faced with the same situation.

Though I hope to never experience this event in my life, and I’m sure you wouldn’t either, Blackstock allows us to live the terror, turmoil, and tension in the pages of her books. So go out, buy the entire series at one time, as you’ll want to move from one book to the next without a break.

True Light (Restoration Series #3)
True Light (Restoration Series #3)
by Terri Blackstock
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Review – True Light
Reviewed by Susan Sleeman
Blackstock allows us to live the terror, turmoil, and tension in the pages of her books.
I’ve never begun a review of a book where I suggest reading other books before the one I’m reviewing. This review is for True Light, but in actuality it covers all three books. If you want to really enjoy this marvelous series, please start with book one.

Terri Blackstock’s Restoration Series includes Last Light, Night Light and True Light. This series is a gripping saga that begins in Last Light when the world as we know it ends. Cars die, planes fall from the sky, all electricity vanishes, taking every modern convenience we have come to rely on with it and taking the Branning family back to our ancestors’ world without the knowledge, skills, or tools to survive in that hard working lifestyle.

In book 1, Last Light, we find the Brannings struggling to cope with the need to find food, water, and other basic essentials. In Last Light, Blackstock portrays man’s innate need to survive and the lengths we will go to insure that survival. And through all the lawless behavior that stems from that need, including murder, she gives us a family who turns to God instead of following the crowd and comes out far richer for their choice. Night Light and True Light, books two and three, continues with the Brannings’ life without modern conveniences.

I have always enjoyed Terri Blackstock’s work. I’ve read many of her books and enjoy her no nonsense, practical writing style. But in this series she captured me by playing off an event that, though it is almost too impossible to imagine, I found myself fully believing in the possibility of such a meltdown in civilization. Found myself, living in the Brannings’ world and wondering what I would do if faced with the same situation.

Though I hope to never experience this event in my life, and I’m sure you wouldn’t either, Blackstock allows us to live the terror, turmoil, and tension in the pages of her books. So go out, buy the entire series at one time, as you’ll want to move from one book to the next without a break.
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Susan Sleeman


Susan Sleeman SUSAN SLEEMAN grew up in a small Wisconsin town where she spent her summers reading Nancy Drew and developing a love of mystery and suspense books. Today, she channels this enthusiasm into hosting the popular internet website TheSuspenseZone.com and writing romantic suspense and mystery novels.

Much to her husband’s chagrin, Susan loves to look at everyday situations and turn them into murder and mayhem scenarios for future novels. If you’ve met Susan, she has probably figured out a plausible way to kill you and get away with it. Don’t worry, she’d never follow through on it.

Her GARDEN GATE MYSTERY series featuring landscape designer Paige Turner, debuted in October 2010 with NIPPED IN THE BUD in Barbour Books Hometown Mysteries line. The second book, READ BETWEEN THE TINES released in e-book format in the Spyglass Lane Mystery series in February of 2012.

Her first romantic suspense novel, featuring the Morgan Brothers, released with Ryan’s story in HIGH-STAKES INHERITANCE , Russ’s story in BEHIND THE BADGE and the Reid’s story in THE CHRISTMAS WITNESS.

This year Susan’s latest series about five adopted siblings who leave law enforcement to form a private investigations firm called the Justice Agency will debut with DOUBLE EXPOSURE in June and in November, DEAD WRONG will release.

Susan currently lives in Florida, but has had the pleasure of living in nine states. Her husband is a church music director and they have two beautiful daughters, a very special son-in-law and an adorable grandson. In her spare time, you can find her traveling to Oregon to visit her children and grandson, reading, gardening or working on TheSuspenseZone.com. To learn more about Susan, please visit her website, or follow on Twitter and Facebook.
 
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