Rainier
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1.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A mother rushing to rescue her only child.
A worried son desperately trying to get his parents out of harm’s way.
A geologist trying to save them all.
Thirty years after surviving a landslide that killed his entire community, Tim is a geologist with the US Geological Survey. When he realizes that Mt. Rainier is about to erupt, he is determined to warn everyone about the imminent danger, only to have his words fall on deaf ears.
Jordan is one of the few who takes the warning to heart. Worried for the safety of his elderly parents, he urges them to evacuate. However, they seem unconcerned – Mt. Rainier hasn’t erupted in hundreds of years after all, and it’s too far away to be dangerous.
After dropping her son off at school, 911 dispatcher Teresa goes to work, only to start receiving distressing calls about the eruption. Terrified and torn between helping many and running to save her only child, she soon finds that the decision has been made for her.
As deadly as lava, landslides, and constant ash raining down are, they're not the only threats. Opportunists are another... and millions of people driven insane by fear might be the biggest danger of all.
Customer Reviews
Good premise; terrible execution
I’m from the PNW and live in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, so I was immediately interested and hoping for a good story. The premise is good—how would everyone react in the event Rainier erupted? The execution…not so great.
This book reads like it was written for an elementary school audience. I mean, if it is YA material and I just missed it, my bad; but I don’t recall seeing anything that said this wasn’t written for adults.
There were also a few things that anyone from the PNW would shake their heads at. For instance, there’s a point where kids in Puyallup don’t know what way to go to get to safety. But the streets of Puyallup are lined with reflective signs that read “Volcano Evacuation Route.” And they teach school kids in this area about that, so it’s almost impossible that the kids would’ve been lost. It just felt like the book was thrown together from several of the author’s previous attempts to write a coherent story on this topic. Oh, and the whole human trafficking thing was shoehorned in, very poorly.