How We Found You by JT Lawrence, 2017(When Tomorrow Calls Series, Book 2)
Available in print and Kindle at Amazon
Other books in series:
- Why You Were Taken (When Tomorrow Calls Series Book 1)
- What Have We Done (When Tomorrow Calls Series Book 3)
Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa, 2024
Rating: Enjoyed and recommend
This is the sequel to Why You were taken and book 2 of the When Tomorrow Calls series. Four years after the events in Why You Were Taken and Kate (formally known as Kirsten) and her (sort of) twins -- daughter Silver and son Mally -- are living with her brother Seth. Kate can't shake a persistent fear that her family is still threatened. And she is right. The Resurrectors, a violent cult, fueled by an apocalyptic prophecy, are after Mally and will do anything to get him. Making the threat a cult appeals to me. The radical fundamentalist religious figures making the news promoting the idea of the apocalypse and calling for the destruction of non-believers is genuinely scary. Sadly, a cult picking a target for their prophecy seems all too plausible.
This is a sequel I really wanted to see written. The characters and setting are so well drawn and interesting that I wanted to know what happened to everyone. Fortunately, enough readers had the same feeling that Lawrence delivered.
How We Found You is a tense psychological action thriller that had me reading compulsively. the author writes very convincingly about the near future and populates it with characters you care about. Kate is compelling. Lawrence draws her as a woman suffering from PTSD with a smothering anxiety about her children. She is such a fiercely loving and devoted mother that when the threat actually materializes she has the inner strength and ability to meet force with force. She is a badass willing to kickass to protect her own. Seth is no slouch is this area either. There are excellent action scenes, particularly toward the climax, that I think would be amazing on screen.
How We Found You is set in the near future and you would expect advances in technology. I appreciate how the author shows technological advances as extensions of what we already have. The reader isn't bombarded with gee whiz stuff that are dramatically science fiction. Look at the development of self-driving cars and 3-D printed and functioning mouse ovaries and consider what is the natural extension of that.
Characters we met in Why You Were Taken return in larger and significant rolls: the freelance journalist, Kekeletso (Keke) and her significant other, Marko the uper geek.
There is a trigger warning for this book. How We Found You does have scenes of children in extreme peril. These scenes are well executed and integral to the story but pulled an OMG reaction from me, a pretty hardened reader.
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