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Aaron Powell served as a Marine during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and a Psychology minor. He also completed a second Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration at Ashford University where he graduated with distinction in 2011. Aaron Powell is the author of the Doomsday Diaries series, C-Town, and Benjamin. He enjoys reading – particularly military history/non-fiction - writing, and is an active marksman. Aaron and his wife, Michelle, and son, Luke, live near Austin, Texas.
Reviewed by Alysha Allen for Readers' Favorite
Since the nuclear war devastated cities all across the United States of America five years ago, Luke and his family have been hiding out in an underground bomb shelter. Running out of supplies and food, they must now take their chances above, exposed and vulnerable to any predatory dangers lurking outside their shelter. What awaits them is a planet Earth so different from any of their presumptions, more shocking and horrifying than they could ever imagine. Luke will have to use all of his strength and martial arts prowess, harnessed and honed within the cramped quarters of his family’s fallout shelter, in order to save his parents and others from monstrous and disastrous consequences.
With a title such as “Doomsday Diaries”, you wouldn’t expect a pair of friendly dolphins to decorate the cover. However, this only aroused my curiosity to read this book. How many post-apocalyptic books have a pair of halcyonic mammals adorning the cover? Well, Aaron Powell, it seems you have seized and arrested the whole of my attention, for I could not cease reading without even keeping track of the pages as I coasted through the story which is as enthralling as its characters. The scenes in the fallout shelter are depicted with an endearing closeness to reality, showing us a family travailed by disaster, lost among the desolate remains of their obliterated civilization. Yet, undeterred from this, Luke and his family still remember how to love one another and show compassion as in the old days, as though they haven’t been living underground for the past five years eating packaged freeze-dried food. Furthermore, despite the emphasis shown on the unity and closeness of family, this book should not be considered for younger readers, for its few graphic sexual scenes. The ending of the book left me eager to know more. I am curious to read any follow-up novel which may follow this exceptionally enrapturing second work from Aaron Powell.
