Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My aunt had been encouraging me to read Breakdown but I didn't bother to seek it out. While I trust her taste, I have enough on my TBR pile from the major publishing houses so I generally ignore Amazon Digital titles. Finally, she bought it for me and sent it to my Kindle. I read Breakdown in one sitting, staying up much too late in the process. There are minor things I'd change about it but it doesn't have the unedited feel I associate with self published work. In fact, at times it reminded me of LaVyrle Spencer's work. Set after a worldwide flu pandemic has radically changed the world, Breakdown picks up several years later. Chris has gone in search of his brothers, painfully making his way through an unrecognizable landscape until he finds comfort in a stranger's home. The atmosphere is close to a sweet americana romance, but the tone is perfectly modern and the setting British. (While this isn't a YA title, it is completely suitable for a YA reader and might make a nice bridge between standard YA fare and more general fiction.) I'll certainly look at Hanna's next work, especially if it's a sequel in the same world.