Saturday, February 11, 2012

Renewal a post apocalyptic tale by J. F. Perkins


Post Apocalyptic Literature can be a very positive and reassuring form of entertainment. Much of the post apocalyptic literature tends to be dark tales of men and women fighting to stay alive in a world filled with death and destruction, but there are exceptions. The “Renewal” series by J.F. Perkins is one of the most uplifting tales of hope I've ever read. I've always said that history has demonstrated that when society crumbles, it reforms almost spontaneously. People tend to come together and work together in times of strife. There are those who see turmoil as a means to power and tyranny, but that's where the spirit of humanity has it's greatest opportunity to overcome adversity as well. The story is the story told from a kid's perspective. It also demonstrates some of the problems and solutions in survival situations. There is a heavy emphasis on community building, The people in this story are deeply rooted in American values. “Renewal” is a real page turner. It's just one of those books that you can't put down.

My wife just finished Renewal by J.F. Perkins and here's what she had to say:

“I really liked it. I had stopped reading the post apocalyptic books because they were stressing me out. However, I did not find this book stressful at all. It immediately drew me in and I was fascinated by the characters. I found it hopeful without it being unrealistic. I would hope that we would be able to form a similar community to Teeny Town here. We have been working on developing relationships with people that have the same values as the good guys in Renewal. And we have been working on getting the resources in place in case we ever truly need them.”

Here is what the author J.F. Perkins has to say about Renewal:

“The Renewal Series begins with a young man in a post-Breakdown America. He is a Reclamation Engineer, tasked with recovering usable land from the ruins of old real estate development. On his very first solo assignment out of training, he stumbles across a secret community in the wilds of Coffee County, Tennessee that changes everything he thought he knew about the world around him. He meets the leader of this community, who is a generation older and who lived through the events of the Breakdown, almost forty years in the past. The older man reveals his family’s story as our young engineer is pulled into a series of adventures that promise a struggle to define the direction of a future trying to recover from the cataclysmic events of the past.”



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