What would you do if a disease spread rapidly across the country, killing almost everyone in its path? What if you were lucky enough to survive? How would you go about rebuilding a new society? These are questions Nicki Huntsman Smith asks in her action story, Troop of Shadows (The Troop of Shadows Chronicles). There are relatively few people left in the world. A scientist, a poet, a reader, and a prepper (someone prepared for the end of days) are a few of the lucky ones who survived. But now they face an even bigger challenge. There are those left on Earth who want to rebuild empires through brute force, strength, and violence. Brutality becomes the new currency exchange, and those that stand in the way are seen as the enemy. People like our band of heroes, who have the brains (and hopefully the courage) to rebuild a new and improved world.

I really enjoyed Troop of Shadows (The Troop of Shadows Chronicles). It is an excellent end of the world story and will appeal to anyone who enjoys the dystopian genre. But it is also a well-written action story and has enough adventure to capture an attention span and reel in a reluctant reader. Nicki Huntsman Smith does a nice job of describing this dark and creepy world in which the characters find themselves. I really liked how descriptive she was. I thought that was one of this novel’s strengths. I also liked getting to know the individual characters and then seeing how Smith tied it all together.

Troop of Shadows (The Troop of Shadows Chronicles) by Nicki Huntsman Smith is a dystopian action story about the end of the world. When a devastating epidemic engulfs the world, it unleashes a catastrophe so strong that the human race is almost completely annihilated. But there are a few that are strong enough (or lucky enough) to survive. A prepper who spent time spelling out the impending disaster. A bookworm. A poet who is always writing in a journal. A scientist. But it turns out, surviving the near extinction was the easy part. Now it is a year later, and those precious few are left in a world without medicine, technology, or any semblance of law and order. Those who remain may not seem like they have much in common, but they have the ability to save humanity. They have the brains to rebuild the world. Give it a fresh start, and battle against those who want to build kingdoms based on concepts of darkness and brutality.

Troop of Shadows (The Troop of Shadows Chronicles) is a really interesting dystopian tale. Nicki Huntsman Smith wrote incredibly likable and humorous characters that were much deeper and more well-rounded than I expected. The story was very descriptive and had a lot of suspense and action, which will appeal to many readers of this genre. Smith did a nice job of building a crazy new world, and I immediately felt at home in it and wanted to learn more about it. Nice job!

Imagine you are one of the few people left in a world that has been ravaged by disease. This is the premise of Nicki Huntsman Smith’s Troop of Shadows (The Troop of Shadows Chronicles). A year after the end of life as we know it, there are only a few people left to rebuild the world. But rebuilding the world might be the biggest challenge of all. Those remaining have the skills and the talent to start over. They are some of the brightest minds left in the world. But there are those who don’t want the world to be the way that it was, with democracy and fairness and sharing. They want to rule the world through strength and brutality. It is up to those special few to stand up for what they believe in and rebuild the world in the way that they know is right.

Troop of Shadows is a really great story. It is full of action and was a wild adventure ride that I really liked. Nicki Huntsman Smith knows how to write an adventure! I really enjoyed the world that she created, without technology or anything modern to help those trying to survive. That felt very realistic to me and I enjoyed watching the characters she created struggle in their new environment. She did a really nice job with this book from start to finish. I think a lot of people will really enjoy this story about the end of the world…and the new beginning.

A year after a deadly disease wipes out most of the planet, a few people find themselves struggling to put together a new society in Nicki Huntsman Smith’s dystopian story, Troop of Shadows (The Troop of Shadows Chronicles). There are educated people, like the character that was a scientist before the disease spread. There are book smart people who like to read, and a poet who liked to write. There was even a prepper, who was one of the few people mentally prepared for the total devastation of the world. But outside of these characters is a darker force that doesn’t want to go back to the way civilization was. Why have votes and rights and freedoms when the new world can be ruled by darkness and violence? If there is to be a new, educated, and free world, it is going to come at many costs.

I thoroughly enjoyed Troop of Shadows. For a dystopian story, the end of the world seemed very plausible, which I liked. But Troop of Shadows is more than just an end of the world story. It is full of action and adventure. I really enjoyed getting to know the different characters and I liked how Nicki Huntsman Smith tied them all together. I thought it was really clever how she gave them each different strengths and weaknesses and made them rely on one another. This was such a well-crafted story and had so much more depth than I expected from an action story. That was a pleasant surprise.