Trapped Days

A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (After the End, Book 1)

By: Grace Hamilton

Narrated by: Heather Jinmaku, Brad Grusnick

As the world descends into chaos, one woman will do anything to find her daughter…

Shannon Grayson is a tough-as-nails long-haul truck driver on a routine job. But her life is turned upside down when a massive electromagnetic blast hits North America while she’s unloading cargo at the South-Central Retail Supercenter, demolishing the power grid.

Now she’s trapped inside the sprawling building, along with dozens of other survivors. And no one is coming to their rescue. Without power, the world outside begins to collapse. Shannon is determined to escape and find her daughter—they haven’t seen each other since Shannon entered witness protection five years ago, but when SHTF her momma-bear drive takes over.

But first, she must survive this ordeal…Eight hundred miles away is Dennis Sullivan, Shannon’s witness protection officer, who swore to protect her and her daughter—and he’s a man of his word. He’ll battle through the ruins of America to reunite with them and ensure their safety.

Desperation quickly turns to terror as Shannon and the others realize there’s no way out of the locked-down supercenter. They’ll have to depend on each other to survive. But in a world gone mad, the greatest threat are the people around you.

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Hoping for more in book 2

The story was a bit draggy and rambling, but the narrators kept me engaged. I'm glad I stuck with it and overall enjoyed it.

Good Story

This story demonstrates how civilization and supposed civilized people, now a days will act in a disaster situation. One story following three different people going through a post EMP disaster. Narrators do a good job with the various characters voices and the entire storyline.

10 out of 10

Another carefully crafted world full of danger, desperation and action. Trapped in a grocery store desperate to get to her daughter our MC Shannon is taking us for a ride. Can’t wait to see what’s next!.

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Great EMP Story

Very good story with an all too real premise. An EMP attack causes a country wide power outage. Shannon is stuck in a big box store that has locked down. the people inside are getting upset and a little crazy. She needs to get out and get to where her daughter Kim is. The way is fraught with danger. Dennis is a U.S. Marshall in charge of protecting Shannon and her daughter. He has all the trouble he can handle trying to get to Kim. This is a very good Apocalypse story and a great start to a series.

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Really great listen loved the characters and narration!

Trapped Days is a post apocalyptic thriller about a possible EMP blast that takes out the at the very least the national grid. All us services fail within minutes and water takes a few more days. This story follows a few key people in various places and we see the world devolve thru their experiences. It doesn’t take long for people to devolve into a survival of the fittest mentality and ruthless behavior, looting thievery and the like becomes commonplace within days. Those with any semblance of decency find themselves attacked and taken advantage of at almost every turn as they can’t quite understand that people are already turning savage so soon. As with any post apocalyptic situation a few things seem slightly implausible as you would think at least the marshal/war veteran would at least out of anyone expect this mentality and be more careful and less trusting. However, for the sake of the story I like his grappling with his inner character although I find it funny he is ok with stealing from nature ok but he won’t go into a dead man’s house. But that was day two so I guess life choices. I like Kim Sarah’s daughter she us a dusty little thing n Dennis who is in no shape to protect anyone by the time he finds her had his work cut out for him. Overall, I like book one and definitely plan to co timer the series. I loved the different situations and some of the rather ingenious solutions to some pretty serious problems. The bastion was great and I loved the characters voices!

Different

It really was interesting to begin with but some how it was expanded on, to become like any other EMP story.

It does end on a cliffhanger, and I can’t wait for more!

I listened to this entirely as an audiobook while tackling some housework, and I kept stopping just to listen because the story was so engrossing. There are 2.5 storylines: Trucker Shannon, trapped in a store, her pain-pill-popping witness protection agent Dennis, who’s trying to find Shannon’s daughter, and a minor storyline about Shannon’s ex in prison.

Shannon’s story hooked me because of the fascinating locked-room mystery vibe, and Dennis’ story worked because he’s such an intriguing character (and he has a dog!). This isn’t my usual genre, but I had a really good time with it, and the audio narration was really well done!

Trapped

This is a very good book.I love this authors series. Narration by Heather Jinmaku, Brad Grusnick was well done.I was given this book free for an honest review.

Entertaining!

This is the first book in the After the End Series, a post-apocalyptic Thriller series. This is a great introduction to the series. The characters are well developed, and intriguing. The storyline is captivating, and entertaining, filled with danger, action, and twists and turns.. The world building is enthralling. The story ends with a cliffhanger. Heather Jinmaku and Brad Grusnick did a great job bringing this story to life. Looking forward to listening to Fractured Days, the next book in the series.

End of days

WOW.....kept my interest the whole way thru with engaging individual stories in addition to the main one. scary how this could actually happen and this story gives a peek into how it could be