If you use the words “romance” and “apocalypse” together, people tend to cringe. But even in the face of a drastically altered world, people will still be people. Sure, the romance part might have a lot less minty-fresh breath and Egyptian cotton sheets and more battle wounds, but in an apocalypse, everyone has much more to lose…which makes finding love all the more important.
If you think you’ve read every variation of post-apocalyptic fiction, you’re wrong. Kate L. Mary has produced a unique take on the genre. Rather than slog us through the initial, “Oh, wow, something big is happening,” and the subsequent quest for shelter, food, weapons, and allies, we take up the story when the survivors have sort of found a way to live, even if it’s not pleasant. The threat has been dormant for a while…but now it’s rising again in a terrifying new way.
The characters are well developed and distinctive, with individual histories and personalities, and the world-building is complex and plausible, and not like any I’ve read before. The landscape is now bleak but holds a dark, otherworldly beauty at times…even if sometimes that beauty can kill you.
Diana and Daisy live in a community that survives, but doesn’t have much hope for the future. Diana has never gotten over what she lost the day the world ended, and Daisy secretly mourns never having an opportunity to have something worth losing, while she looks for moments of happiness wherever she can find it. Bryan had a small but impactful, negative role in Diana’s pre-apocalypse life, but one thing becomes clear. People can change. They do change. Devastating loss can be overcome, and there is a reason to hope for a future, and Diana and Bryan know that future can be theirs, together. But first they have to survive, and this means learning more about the deadly threat they face and finding a way to defeat it. If not forever, at least for now.
Happily ever after has a whole new meaning in the apocalypse.
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Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of Adult, New Adult, and Young Adult fiction, ranging from post-apocalyptic tales of the undead to speculative fiction and contemporary romance! The wife of a USAF pilot and mother of four, her days are spent balancing family and work while she works to create new worlds for her readers to get lost in.
The Blood Will Dry
Apocalyptic Fiction from an Award-Winning Author
"Everything was so on-point in this novel, there was no fault to be found and I actually did not even want to find any because The Blood Will Dry by Kate L. Mary is perfect just the way it is."
-Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite
More Apocalyptic Fiction by Author Kate L. Mary:
- The Broken World Series
- The Outliers Saga
- Tribe of Daughters
- Species Traitor
- The Moonchild Series
- The Oklahoma Wastelands Series
- The Salvation-1 Series
- The Cursed World Series
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