Review - Point of Extinction by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus

Title: Point of Extinction
Author: Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus
Series: Extinction #1
Pages: 216
Release Date: February 6^th 2021
Format: Kindle
Buy it: Amazon
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Synopsis: An ancient killer. A nation torn apart. One woman will stop at nothing to save her family - or die trying.
Tired of the usual post-apocalyptic story? Welcome to your new addiction.
An underwater explosion devastates a chain of islands.
A mysterious illness begins to spring up across the world.
Earthquakes shatter the west coast, causing untold damage and loss of life.
To the ordinary observer, these events appear random and coincidental - but for some they're all pieces of a global puzzle that leads to one conclusion: the end of humanity.
In a desperate race against time, the survivors must not only survive but learn to adapt to an insidious set of foes, each more dangerous than the last.
 
My Review: This is the first book in the extinction series and another post- apocalyptic series by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus, again this story is told in several POVs which is not my favourite way to tell a story but it works in these kinds of stories.
 
When Dr Henry Crane a brilliant Marine Geophysicist goes into the Indian Ocean to take a look at the MOHO Island an underwater volcano he that had started to collapse to get samples the seafloor collapses, the MOHO Island explodes and causes a deadly pyroclastic flow, tsunamis and a toxic methane to be released into the air killing millions but this is just that start of a series of events.
 
Peta and her assistant Devon are a few hundred miles away when the explosion occurs and they have to run for their lives to escape death, being rescued by a mysterious corporation ICONS Peta is wary of their intentions.
 
Tyler is a 16 year old who though he had finally found somewhere he could belong before then explosion but when he is trapped in Madagascar with his dad he must follow a plan that his mother set out for them and Tyler find out that his mum a Naval intelligence officer was hiding stuff about the MOHO Island from him.
 
Jessica grew up in Suriname with her father deep in the Amazon Jungle and all she wants is to keep her family together, her father created their own island on an old Dutch Sugar plantation and converted it into a scientific research post where he studied the unique qualities of the local hot springs the Libi Nati, when the MOHO exploded the hot springs changed.
 
Jason a retired combat medic is now suffering from PTSD and when the disaster occurs the United States suffers from record breaking earthquakes he goes to the trauma centre at the hospital he now works at to help out
 
Madeline a crazy and relentless researcher had researched the cataclysmic anomalies from the safety of her home and she could see patterns through her unique view and she knew parts of the truth about why ICONS were so interested in the MOHO.
 
Tara is one of my go to authors and even though I don’t really read post-apocalyptic books I had to read this especially after liking the first one she did with Mike Kraus and I couldn't put it down and I had to read the second one as soon as it came out.
 
Currently Reading: Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Read in 2022: 15/40