Review: No Zombies in This Apocalypse!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
It's been one year since an electromagnetic pulse hit the United States, wiping out all electricity and leaving the country completely "unplugged" from the world. No phones, no cars, no heat, no clean water and barely any food to survive.With the country under Marshall Law, New York City has set up a base camp at Grand Central Station, with the US Army in control.With no place else to turn, most single women are forced to sell their bodies to military officers in exchange for just enough food for survival.One woman, Emily Rosen, discovers a secret being kept from the public by the Military leader. It seems America is rebuilding itself outside the city.When the men in charge find out Emily knows too much, she is captured and forced to kill an officer in self defense.No longer safe,  she runs off and finds herself teaming up with escaped convict, Christopher Mason.Mason is a lone wolf and likes it that way, but when he meets Emily, he feels compelled to protect her and decides to go on the run with her.The Pulse is the first Apocalyptic Erotic romance I have read and I admit at first I wasn't sure how the erotic angel would fit, but I was enthralled from the start. It was very hard to put down.Sure, it has steamy sex scenes (it's erotica ,after all!) but it has characters I really cared about and a storyline that is something we don't think can ever happen to us, but made me think real hard about what I would do if in fact it did.Dark, emotional and compelling, The Pulse is one of the best Post Apocalyptic Novels I have read that didn't have zombies or a heroine named Katniss.I look forward to Part 2 in this trilogy, which seems to focus on Emily's former roommate at Grand Central, Jenna, as she tries to make her own escape to the outside world.Shoshanna Evers proves with The Pulse, that she can take on more than just hot sex with her novels !