Title: 1986
Author: Morgan Parker
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 13th
Book Description:
Allana Harrison wanted out. She wanted to escape her painful, broken past and enjoy a fresh start somewhere else. Anywhere else. And while all of the boys in high school and college promised to deliver that dream, only one man actually pulled through.
Now a young adult, Allana finds herself on the opposite side of the world, in a prosperous and rich town that's not only isolated from her past, but from the crime, grime and hustle of bigger cities, in a country where she doesn't understand the language or know anybody else except her husband. And that's how she likes it.
Until she meets Alex, another American who ends up being her only other friend, the one person who reminds her of what it's like to feel desired, wanted and hungered for.
Except Alex has motives. And Alex has questions -- about her husband's work at the world's most-advanced, leading-edge power station, questions he wants answered... and when Allana can no longer provide them, Alex threatens to reveal the secrets of their forbidden past, secrets that will destroy the man that saved her.
Caught between two men -- one she loves and the other she can't help but love -- Allana must deliberate the role she plays in the moments leading to humankind's greatest disaster... in 1986.
Buy Links:
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1svcAJM
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 3.5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“Before we ever arrived in the
Soviet Ukraine, my destiny had been written.”
This was a book that I signed up to read for a few reasons, I
loved the eighties, I loved the cover and the synopsis pulled me in. Although
it is intimated in the synopsis this book is a story based around the Chernobyl
disaster in 1986, Morgan Parker delivers a book full of mystery and suspense as
you valiantly try to determine who is good and who is bad, while at the
forefront of the story is the relationship between Vasy and his wife, Allana…oh
and Alex.
“…with Alex, she felt
untouchable; with Vasy she felt indestructible.”
1986 is Morgan Parker’s take on the conspiracy theories
pertaining to America's influence with the Chernobyl disaster and is all about the
spies and their relationship to the disaster as well as the romantic
relationships between them. Double crossing, rogue agents and espionage all led
to a thrilling read that had me glued to the pages.
I was a teenager when Chernobyl happened, every news station
around the world had that picture that will forever be ingrained into my memory,
that mushroom cloud of fire, smoke and radioactive particles that forever
altered the life of so many. I was too young to really comprehend the gravity
of the situation at the time, however, since reading 1986 I felt compelled to
read up about it and really understand exactly what they were. I am seriously
appalled.
While Morgan Parker’s book is by no means a historical
recount of this disaster is does call in to question just how much this could
be true and how much really was fiction. It was obvious that he had really done
his homework with regards to the nuclear station itself and the mechanics of it
too. I’m not a real history buff and by no means a historical reader but this
book was an addictive read and I felt myself more involved with the mystery
side rather than the romantic relationships that were at the forefront of this
novel, this I feel was due to the third person narrative rather than the story
itself.
It is obvious that Morgan Parker is extremely talented,
however for me to really understand a character I need to connect with them and
for me this was lacking in this story, as I said above I do feel this was due
to third person, but none the less, this was a real page turner and an
addictive read.
Allana wanted to escape her life in the US and her
relationship with Vasy gave her the out and the new start that she desperately
wanted. Now married and living in Pripyat in the USSR Allana is despondent with
the new life that she has been given, she is incredibly lonely in a city where
she knows no-one, doesn’t speak the language and is married to a man that
constantly works at least an eighty-hour week. Vasy, knowing how lonely his
wife was asked his friend, Alex, to keep her company. Alex was an American too
and Vasy thought that he would be the one Allana could relate to the most. Alex
and Allana become friends and all too soon the lines of friendships blur.
“Alone. Isolated. Unloved.”
In a flip flop of emotions for Allana her loyalties are
tested and she does revert back to the cheating life that she wanted to escape
from. I desperately wanted to understand her but I couldn’t, it seemed that she
did actually love two men at the same time and her inner thoughts and feelings
only really scratched the surface of what I wanted to know. However, are the
two men in her life what they seem to be? Is Allana’s life really what she
thinks it is? Can anyone be trusted?
“Temptation is fun…surrendering
is even better.”
As I said, I loved the history and the mystery surrounding
this read. It was extremely well written and totally engaging and actually was
a book that I didn’t want to end. Who were the winners and losers in this book?
For me no-one won and that was the perfect result. A great read and I will
definitely be checking out other books by Morgan Parker.
About the Author:
As the author of the best-selling mystery romance, Surviving Goodbye, Morgan Parker has written several other novels under this pen name. In 2012 and 2013, he self-published Textual Encounters and Textual Encounters: 2, respectively. As a result of the interest in these two stories, he wrote non friction, an unconventional love story. That love story earned Mr. Parker a tremendous amount of attention and at the insistence of his readers, he followed it with Hope (a novella) and Sick Day. All three of those stories have spent time on Amazon best-seller lists.
When not writing, Morgan likes to spend time gathering story material from his two young children, rereading books by Colin Harrison, and napping where he discovered the Type II Sleep State, which is the topic for an untitled trilogy to be released in late-2016.
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