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The Breakers Series: Books 1-3 Kindle Edition

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In the Breakers series, humanity faces not one apocalypse, but two: first a lethal pandemic, then a war against those who made the virus. This collection includes the first three books and is over 1000 pages (350,000 words) of post-apocalyptic survival.

BREAKERS (Book 1)

In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa. In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter. A plague tears across the world, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. Civilization comes to an abrupt stop.

Just as the survivors begin to adapt to the aftermath, Walt learns the virus that ended humanity wasn't created by humans. It was inflicted from outside. The colonists who sent it are ready to finish the job--and Earth's survivors may be too few and too weak to resist.

MELT DOWN (Book 2)

In upstate Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is graduating college, but with no job and no prospects, she'll have to move back in with her parents.

Then the world ends: first with a virus, then with an alien invasion.

Ness and Shawn take to the mountains to fight a guerrilla against the attackers. In California, Tristan and Alden are taken prisoner. Separated from her brother, Tristan crosses the ruins of America to track him down. She will stop at nothing to get Alden back--but her fellow survivors prove even more dangerous than the monsters who broke the world.

KNIFEPOINT (Book 3)

Raina was just a girl when the plague came. She survived. Her parents didn't. Neither did the world. As civilization fell, she took to the ruins of Los Angeles, eating whatever she could catch.

After two years alone, she's found and adopted by a fisherman and his wife. Their makeshift family lives a quiet life--until a man named Karslaw sails in from Catalina Island with an army of conquerors. Driven by visions of empire, he executes Raina's new father as a traitor and takes her mother captive.

But Karslaw's people aren't the only ones vying for control of the ruined land. As violence wracks the city, Raina joins a rebellion against Karslaw's rule. She will stop at nothing to free her mother--and to have her revenge.
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Ed's finished series include the post-apocalyptic BREAKERS series and the epic fantasy trilogy THE CYCLE OF ARAWN. His books have sold over one million copies, hit the USA Today bestseller lists, been nominated for an Audie and multiple Voice Arts Awards, and have stuck in Audible's top 100 for over six months. Before that, he worked in a bookstore. Before that, he was a pile of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen waiting to be assembled into a conscious being.

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aussie bob
5.0 out of 5 stars What a marathon read
Reviewed in Australia on 6 February 2019
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I can’t believe how much planning there was in this book. A great surprise; I thought it had ended but with a teaser chapter from the next book, but it kept going and going and didn’t loose focus, plot or my interest. I can’t wait to read more books by EWR. Congratulations.
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Kirsten
4.0 out of 5 stars A perfect apocalyptic freeland
Reviewed in Australia on 22 January 2019
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For those who dream of a world where humanity is sent back to basics, to every man for himself and the shoot first without legal consequences romantic, this book is for you. Plenty of action, plenty of survival of the fittest, plenty of adventure so borderline unrealistic it addictive. Vivid imagery without expending too much complex word count. Edward has written all 3 books in the series to be engaging and complex in the character build without being strenuous reading. Highly recommend. He went a little overboard on the witty retorts making the conversations somewhat unrealistic where I lose a star on this book.
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Nooch
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Australia on 7 April 2018
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Haven’t been compelled to read a whole book in a while so this one must have stirred something inside me. It was a bit frustrating when the first story finished and the second blended in but it made a lot of sense in the end, ensuring that the whole book was read to get tot he finish.
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r venus
3.0 out of 5 stars Aliens ?
Reviewed in Australia on 3 September 2018
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I was wanting more of an explanation of the aliens ...... it didn't quite make sense
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tcm1956
4.0 out of 5 stars Breakers long winded?
Reviewed in Australia on 25 December 2019
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Took a while to read but not a bad book if you stick with it. A little far fetched but overall a good read. The possibilities are there but probably not with aliens.
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Melissa ThomasHall
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Dystopian Read
Reviewed in Australia on 29 May 2019
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Very easy read and I like the slightly different story from different points of views in each book. I enjoyed the writing style it was easy to read and get involved in.
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Adam Ryrych
5.0 out of 5 stars Good reading
Reviewed in Australia on 15 August 2021
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It was really good reading,and was very hard to put the book away.
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Anna
4.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book!
Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2017
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This series immediately dragged me in, and keep me interested the whole way through. I read all three books in one sitting! I would definitely reccommend to read, even if you don't normally read this genre of book.
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Shayne
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Plot Line
Reviewed in Canada on 7 July 2020
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Liked the fact there is a complete unexpected twist in the story that totally makes you think how plausible something like that could actually happen. Loved it. Also liked the fact there were virtually three different stories with the three books involving new characters with their own story lines but linked to characters from the other books and the author made it all come together in a logical pattern, if that makes sense. I do not want to give away the story line so it's harder to explain how well written Breakers is. Really enjoyed it so much I had to read all three books from beginning to end.
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Rajive Lall
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on 24 September 2016
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Walt Morton
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Fun For Fans of Apocalyptic Alien Invasions!
Reviewed in the United States on 24 August 2014
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At first, I was reluctant to read Breakers because I got the first book free as a promotional copy. And my experience has generally been that 99% of self-published authors are not very good, for a variety of bad writing reasons including unbelievable ideas, wooden characters, bad dialogue and most usually unprofessional products with typos and poor formatting.

Edward W. Robertson is the other 1%.

Is his writing flawless? No, but it's so much damn fun that I am willing to forgive any minor flaws for the pleasure of the story.

Because, story is what writing is really about. Tell a good story is rule #1. This core value often gets lost in creative writing MFA programs, paralyzed fan groups, and Hollywood producer's offices. The core value of "tell a good story" is strong in the Breakers series. Robertson invents a rip-snorting no-holds-barred full-apocalyptic virus-alien-invasion mash-up with intensity, creativity, and boldness. A lot of writers would say this is cliché material, been done a hundred times, impossible to work with in a good way. Robertson proves there is still life in this material and I have to believe he had fun writing it, with the intent readers would have fun reading it.

Post-apocalyptic fiction is a popular genre right now, with works like The Hunger Games, World War Z, The Road, Left Behind, and One Second After selling well. I feel like Robertson's work is both refreshing and in some ways a little old-fashioned, enjoying its ties to bug-eyed-monsters from outer space wielding ray-guns.

Breakers has in it's DNA elements of The Stand, The War Of The Worlds, Independence Day, and forty other books dealing with survival, viral plague, post apocalypse - with aliens thrown in. I won't say Breakers attains the classic gravitas of War Of The Worlds (which is still a terrific read) but Robertson is very effective at inserting modern believable characters (students, realtors, slackers, etc.) into his apocalypse.

Is Ed Robertson's book packed with the dense literary tropes of James Joyce? No. You want Joyce -- go read Ulysses. I'd prefer Robertson any day. He's an eminently capable storyteller and very effective at structuring his stories to consist of endless cliffhangers. The result is a real page-turner in the best sense of the word. In some way, Robertson's pacing reminds me of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a comment that may be lost on anybody but a die-hard Burroughs fan. Burroughs was a huge success building narrative this way, and Robertson uses the tactic well.

Some might say this book is derivative of Stephen King's The Stand, probably the most influential post-apocalyptic novel of the last 30 years. I read a bit of The Stand to see how it holds up. King is a very talented writer, but The Stand is feeling it's age. It's a dated novel of the 70's and by comparison, Robertson's Breakers feels like a 21st century product, as it should.

I am also struck, occasionally by Robertson's smart peripheral commentary on consumer culture and how fast it would evaporate post-apocalypse. There's a lot of smart stuff about how people live today, attitudes, prejudices on the periphery, and while I don't love it when Robertson does a direct pop-culture reference to contemporary media (i.e. the game DOOM) I cannot deny the ease and effectiveness of that pop-culture shout-out.

If I did not usually like this genre, I'd give the book 2 stars.

If I were a grammar maniac obsessing on various little typos and little speed bumps in reading, I would give it 3 stars.

If I enjoy the genre of alien invasion / apocalyptic I'd give this book 4 stars as a solid entry in the field, easily as good as John Ringo's Posleen books or Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle's Footfall.

Given the amount of fun, storytelling bravado, and Robertson's energy in pulling it off, I say - 5 stars.

(Full disclosure: I bought the rest of the series.)
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raymond warr firstly i love a good story that has more than one direction v
3.0 out of 5 stars well written but prefer my scifi in space
Reviewed in Spain on 15 July 2015
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Not really what I expected, if you like end of mankind books this one is well written, and in places quite surprising,
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Claire Hansen
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2015
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I have thoroughly enjoyed this box set of books. I would go as far as saying they are the best free books I've ever gotten from here for my kindle. I will be paying for the remainder of the series, and in my opinion, if they can make me do this, then the author has achieved his goal.

The books are well written and mostly well edited (a few minor issues with the wrong word being used in places, but not often and nothing more than this, most certainly not enough to detract from the story or to make it painful to read).

You get an awful lot for your 'money'. These are not mini novellas issued as a small teaser freebie to draw you in, they are 3 full novels.

I love the author's tone, I enjoyed the dialogue, I find the wit and humour used to be most pleasing, character interactions brightened with just the right amount of attitude- It is intelligently written, which is a huge plus for me.

The characters themselves, in all three of the books, I found likeable, identifiable, and a pleasure to read about.

The storyline was ensnaring, I wanted to read more, I wanted to know what happened. I didn't get bored and the author kept my interest.

I love anything post apocalyptic and I found this to be a brilliant book. The right combination of well written, a good storyline and strong characters. Can't beat that for me.

I'm really, really not a fan of 'spoiler' reviews. Skimming through a couple here I was irritated to have things revealed to me before reading them for myself, I prefer to review the quality of the book, not examine the content, so I hope this review has been helpful in the way I intended it to be.

I review a lot of books, and I'm very picky about how things are written. Without a doubt this is one of the best free books out there, I would highly recommend it.
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