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Red Shadows

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I was so impressed by this book. It's my first by this author and I quickly surmised that it is a sequel, but that was on special order, so I went ahead and read this one anyway. It stands alone as a pretty powerful work of fiction that stayed with me after I'd finished. (a 2-sitting read because I was caught up in the characters. I am not a frequent reader of sf and/or apocalyptic fiction, but this is a wonderful novel anyone would enjoy. I was pleased to see the character names were as ordinary as the circumstances were extraordinary! These people seemed familiar, flawed, and ultimately heroic.

This story had great characters and good detail. You can really feel you are in one of the three zones described in the book and your really worry with the characters about what could be 'out there'. For anyone that likes science fiction and thrillers, they should love this book!

RED SHADOWS is a follow up to FINAL IMPACT, where a rogue planet crashes into the Earth. Before DEEP IMPACT and ARMAGEDDON, Navarro weaved a tale of survival. In RED SHADOWS we find out how well the survivors are doing and what they are doing to stop a plague. Navarro has been totally underrated in the women of horror movement of the `90's. We all know about Brite, Koja, Kiernan and Faust. But please add Navarro as an heir to their throne. This novel is an excellently written, character-driven story. The people in this novel live and breathe and you feel for them when some of their decisions are made. Emotionally engaging. Highest Recommendation.

This is a classic big-canvas novel, as the children of the FINAL IMPACT characters come into their own. Don't worry: most of the original gang is back as well -- but they take a back seat to the young men and women born during and after the cataclysmic Impact Days. As usual, Navarro's main focus in on her characters, and those in this novel are firmly within the Navarro tradition of strong, intensely believable people, who carry with them that Stephen King-like sense of being someone you actually know . . . or wish you that did, or fear that you might . . . Overall, another superior effort from a consistently fine author. As one of the other perceptive folks quoted on this page recommends, buy both books and read them back-to-back.

Yvonne Navarro's FINAL IMPACT was one of the most powerful and effective novels of 1997. Now we have the follow-up (or sequel, whatever you want to call it), and it lives up to everything we were hoping for. Damn, this is good stuff. Buy it and the first novel and read them back-to-back.

Yaaaaaaa for Red Shadows written by Ms. Navarro. I realy liked this book very, very much and the focus on the characters is just enough to have kept me returning to the book until I finished the book in just 5 days.

The book fits the bill of post apocalyptic with a drop of vampireism and a drop or two of DNA mutation and just a hint of cannabilism. I don't care for zombies and their canabalistic ways which Red Shadows has both, but not too much.

I hope that there will be a third book that follows Thomas, Disa, Schylor, Leora, Morrell, and Ryan.

Shad in DC

Pretty tremendous sequel to Final Impact pulls off being scary and full of brooding sense of doom. Really feels like the world has ended! I hope there will be a third book! The story line carries over better than most overblown epic fantasies out there.

It's rare that a sequel (no matter what the author calls it) is good as the first. This is one of those rare gems. It's a generation after FINAL IMPACT, and the survivors and descendants continue their struggle to be just what they are... survivors. A must have.

Yvonne Navarro's latest book, RED SHADOWS, is her best novel yet, adding to an already excellent body of work. Her characters' lives become part of the reader's, with the reader suffering with every loss and rejoicing with every hope as if their own. Along with the vivid characterization, there is more than enough action to issue this warning: Don't start reading this book just before bedtime if you plan on getting any sleep! Somehow, Ms. Navarro found a scientifically plausible way to stop the rotation of the Earth. (According to Dr. Ellen Stofan at NASA, as seen on TLC, one theory explaining Venus' retrograde rotation was a huge asteroid impact!) While exploring the ramifications of one face of the Earth always facing the Sun, Ms. Navarro weaves in some mysterious mutations and a nail-bitingly suspenseful plot, making RED SHADOWS a truly good read and a great follow-up to FINAL IMPACT!

A new threat hit all the zones (Dark, Gray, and Light, all that's left of the world) in the form of a one-hundred percent fatal disease, and it's spreading! It's been about twenty years since Final Impact, in which the earth was struck by shards (some as big as cities) of a rogue planet. We meet up with many of the characters from the first novel, finding out where Eddie took his son, what became of Naomi and her tribe of vampiric followers, Simon and Mercy and their similarly gifted children, and what's become of Lily. Having read the first book, it was quite exciting to come back to this world and find out what's happened, two decades later, to my favorite characters. It's one of those books where, while in between readings, I often found myself going over their situations in my mind, making predictions, hopes, fears... as if I actually lived in their world. And, for a short amount of time, I once again did.