| Title | : | Planet Urth Boxed Set (Planet Urth, #1-3) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 466 |
| Publication | : | Published November 2, 2015 |
The world has changed. It’s dangerous, deadly. Inhuman creatures rule the planet. Animals have mutated. The land is hostile. But it’s all I’ve ever known. Hunger. Fear. Panic. Those emotions are my reality. They are my every day. I am Avery, and I am seventeen. My father died a year ago. Since then I’ve been responsible for my eight-year-old sister, June.
I worry we are the only humans left.
Humans have been hunted for centuries, to the brink of extinction. I must fight each day to protect my sister. It is the reason I wake, the reason I breathe. But how long can I go on fighting? How long will it be before they find us?
More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained unaffected. Most changed dramatically and evolved into something else entirely. Irrevocable alterations caused by chemical warfare have created a new species. North America is in ruins and has been overtaken. Humanity has fallen at the hands of mutants known as Urthmen.
Seventeen year-old Avery is alive and unchanged. But she has not been immune to the harshness of the new world. She has lived on the run for much of her life, in terror.
After losing her father, Avery is the sole guardian of her eight-year-old sister, June. Avery is now charged with June’s safety as well as her own, a nearly impossible task.
Forced to hide deep in the forest and away from the cities overrun by Urthmen, Avery and her sister are constantly hunted. Danger awaits them at every turn. They fear they are the only human beings left, that they are the last of their kind.
But are they truly alone?
Planet Urth Boxed Set (Planet Urth, #1-3) Reviews
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To see my reviews for these 3 books please see the individual books
My over all rating is a 5 across the board -
Fantastic!
It has been a long while since a book has kept me reading through the night! Well thought out characters, plotlines that keep you guessing and much better than the average editing (something I personally appriciate!) makes this a divine read!This series has been so fascinating and fun, I am most anxious to continue with it! The Planet Urth comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! -
A while back my friend. Margaret McGaffey Fisk recommended this book on her website (
https://margaretmcgaffeyfisk.com/?s=urth). I was intrigued. I looked on Amazon and it seemed that between my husband's and my joined content we had downloaded this story many times as a boxed set and separately. So I decided to read the boxed set. And guess what? I liked it a lot!
My inner teen was happy to have a book dedicated to young people, especially a strong female teen. The book was imaginative and fast moving. I had a hard time getting to sleep as I didn't want to leave the characters out there in possible danger.
My only problem with the writing is how repetitive it was. Aspects are repeated ad nauseum. Maybe if I were to read the books slowly, getting only moments to read, it would help remind me of the important points, but I found it distracting. I know the big sister, Avery, cares deeply for her little sister, June, and must try to protect her. Oh, and the lust Avery feels for the first guy she meets and then the second guy she meets, in spite of the dangers, and the angst that goes with adolescence is just annoying.
Overall, though, I did love the story and want to read the next in the series. Maybe you will love it even more! -
I read part 1 last year.
When I saw parts 1-3 in a set for .99, I couldn't pass it up. I wanted to see what happened.
Umm... The Urthmen and Lurkers probably made the book for me. The back story of how they came to be monsters was good. There are a few tense scenes involving both.
The characters?
Avery is awkward for a good reason. A teenage girl that lost her mom at a very young age, left to fend for her and her sister for a year after their dad died while dodging scaries might not be the most well versed in relationships. But she also seemed dumb. Constantly wondering why Will was jealous while not knowing what the emotion was? Not to mention the love triangle with Will and Sully was odd.
When did her and Sully become a thing? It seemed like she liked them both. Sarah's character was not needed.
Why did she have to be so unlikable from the start? Will... I can't.
There were good parts. What would really happen with a break down of society.
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Hunger Games meets Gladiator, unputdownable post-apocalyptic delight, loved it!
A savage post-apocalyptic dystopian fantasy where money, houses & families are a thing of the past and life is about survival
It’s a collection of the first 3/9 books in the series.
The year is 2270. 208 years since the War of 2062 and 1yr after being orphaned, 17yo Avery lives in a cave with her 8yo sister June and hasn’t seen another human for years. Humans have mutated to simpler Urthmen & want to unalive any humans left, animals have mutated and then there are Lurkers who inhabit the forests & come out at night. Fate throws her together with 18yo Will and his family and together they trek through dangerous woods to find a better future. Good to know that human nature hasn’t changed that much - there are still some that take delight in seeing the sky and some who’d do atorcious things to other humans for survival of the species. Survival of the smartest was chilling to read about, especially when it’s an 8yo kid who has to grow up fast & parentless.
I read the entire set of 3 books in one go - unputdownable! Loved the post-apocalyptic Earth, loved the realism of a world without gadgets where survival is key, loved the story, the oace, the characters. The way Avery looked after June was sweet & fierce. Will’s and Avery’s awkward first attempts at romance were awww, but I liked Sully way more - the winking, the maturity, the being in sync with Avery who was a cross of Sarah Connor and Katniss Everdeen.
If you like hero stories where a human girl turns everyone to her belief that monsters and himans alike “we can all be friends” - this one is not for you. This girl was built for murder - a natural-born leader with a killer instinct - and there is no cumbaya between humans and the Urthmen. None.
Going to get the next set with books 1-5 now.
Recommended for lovers of YA dystopian epic tales the likes of Hunger Games (and/or Mad Max) and lovers of headstrong no-nonsense heroines.
Trigger warnings: parts of the 2nd book will be difficult to read for those who have seen death of a loved one & for women with PTSD after human trafficking and breeding slavery experiences. -
Books 1-2 contain a quite interesting plot about a teen fending for her sister in a dystopian post nuclear holocaust world. The inclusion of a few editor’s remarks are mildly distracting, as is the author’s refusal to use the first person accusative correctly.
All credibility however goes out of the window in book 3. It seems society had made no technological progress whatsoever in the 2 hundred odd years between the present day and the time the world was destroyed; if a mega nuclear bunker was able to accommodate thousands of humans, did they really enter a handful at a time in a single small elevator? Rather than rework details from a few pages earlier, the problem of how the population might evacuate gets solved by a subterranean city that can magically rise to the surface like a worm. Seriously?
Books 1-2 might have deserved 4 stars, 2 for book 3 would have been generous, and did enough damage that I don’t be rushing back to continue this series anytime soon. -
It's a good story
It's a story that never grows old because it reflects what many of us wish. We have no experience, but inside we all want to be great in some manner. This book is about taking that first step.
Words are spelled correctly, which is a huge plus.
This 3 book set compresses what objectively should take years into mere months.
Avery and her sister June are barely existing at a subsistence level, eating grubs and insects and living in a cave as the book begins. By the end of the third book we see a hidden, underground desert city that rises to the surface so humans can fight Urthmen with daggers, swords and crossbows.
If you like your stories fast and furious, you'll enjoy this read.
If you like your stories fast and furious and somewhat bound in logic and with a believable progression, you'll need to wait for Jennifer and her husband to polish their ctaft. -
Strong Female in the Lead Role
I kind of knew what to expect from this set when I started it because I'd (accidentally) picked up & read one of the books from farther along in the series when it was offered for free & really enjoyed it. I wasn't disappointed! The characters are well developed, believable people. The action & suspense happen in good amounts at the right places. And, in spite of the editing issues (which I refuse to take out of my rating), I really got wrapped up in these & I'll definitely be reading them again as I get more books from the series!
My only issues were editing ones: the publisher's spellchecker (or the editor who proofread these) missed the consistent mistake of replacing "than" with "that", making some of the sentences read much less smoothly, and the various proofreading errors increased in each book so that by the third, I found them rather irritating. -
If I had a mean, teen daughter, I would recommend this to her. She would love it. I, however, wanted to Iike these books, and purchased this bundle because I saw potential in the first one. I will not continue this series, though. The story telling is repetitive. The authors keep repeating themselves. They say the same thing over and over using different words. - See what that is?... Page filler, and it distracts from the story. There is a decent distopian adventure story in there, though, hence the middle ground rating. --- Notes: teen/ya series; female main/lead character; "tough chick"; books 2 & 3 contain rape; teen girl emotions/romance; monsters; survival/murder/mayhem; vocabulary builder.
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It was cute. However, I don't think they need 3 books to tell the story.
I particularly appreciated the point in the story where Avery and Sully find out why the Urthmen hate them. Which is a reality? We are often in conflicts because we refuse to see the other side.
I was a bit disappointed in the 3rd book - only because in the 1st and 2nd books the author spent a lot of time drumming up Avery's fighting skills and in this one she was just lucky. I think sometimes authors forget the character they build up for the convenience of finishing the story.
I love the part of the book when Avery stood up to the men enslaving women to 'repopulate' the earth. I wanted to see more of that. -
If you like James Axler's deathlands series, then you'll probably like this series too. It has a lot of similarities, but it has some of it's own slants on things as well. Of course, there's the typical savior legend, which just happens to come to pass, there's the ever present heroine can't make up her mind who she wants plotline, and it isn't missing the whole disaster strikes at the worst time stuff either, but the way it's all woven together makes this a story well worth reading, and I for one will continue the series as it becomes possible for me to do so. I'd really like to see where this one goes.
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Where to start with this book... oh what a "good read." I stumbled upon this book in the iBooks store at some point looking for dystopian books, and I'm really glad I did. Not only does the story progress at a good rate but the character development the Authors brought was outstanding. You see multiple characters, once docile and skittish progress into lethal killers. I managed to read the entire book series in less than a week working 12-14 hours a day. Highly recommended and one hundred percent worth purchasing.
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Good.......but!
Nothing wrong with the writing, it flows well and logically. I feel the reader needs more background to the whole world put forward in the first book. ( maybe a prequel).
I also feel the characters were just a bit too good at everything, a young girl fighting like a Samurai needs explaining.
Good read though, possibly for a teen audience. -
Ok
The story line kept my interest although grammatical errors caused a number of stumbles. It's almost as if this set of books were thrown together and published before anyone checked it. I'd be interested in the rest of the series but I would hope a more professional job were done on the publishing. -
I really liked the first three books so much i will have to get tbe others. I liked the way the story flowed . Curtis Gillis
I really liked the first three books so much I will have to get the others. I liked the way the story fiowed. Curtis Gillis -
Urth to Earth
The co-authors are creative and on point I have read other books written by them and they NEVER fail to entertain. Their books could be made into mini series because they are just that phenomenal. 2 thumbs up! -
Good series for middle schoolers, with a strong female lead. I won't read any more of the series (didn't know it was YA when I downloaded it) as it's too simplistic and is a bit too Republican for my taste.
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I had higher hopes for this series. I found the heroes and villains to be single-dimensional and the post-apocalyptic world to be shallow. I think the original premise was good, but the execution lacking. Two of five on Goodreads.
