Out of the Dawn

Written by P. C. Cast

Narrated by Lorelei King

Practical Magic meets Station Eleven in this pulse-pounding post-apocalyptic thriller about a group of women fighting for a just future in the wake of global destruction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781666642841

P. C. Cast

P.C. Cast is the author of the House of Night novels, including Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, and Untamed. Ms. Cast is a #1 New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling author and a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. With more than 20 million copies in print in over 40 countries, her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Prism, Holt Medallion, Daphne du Maurier, Booksellers’ Best, and the Laurel Wreath. Ms. Cast was born in the Midwest and grew up being shuttled back and forth between Illinois and Oklahoma, which is where she fell in love with Quarter Horses and mythology. After high school she joined the United States Air Force and began public speaking and writing. After her tour in the USAF, she taught high school for 15 years before retiring to write full time. She now lives in Oregon surrounded by beloved cats, dogs, horses, and family.

Reviews for Out of the Dawn

[Billie · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Out of the Dawn
by P.C. Cast
Into the Mist #2
Fantasy Science Fiction Dystopia
Scribd Audio
18+

Mercury and her fellow teachers, along with some kids they picked up along the way, are making a new home in the middle of the woods, planning on using the cliffs as the templates for adobe homes so the green mist can't reach them. They know it will kill the men, but they don't know what additional exposure will do to them: enhance their powers, or kill them.

But the green mist didn't kill every man it touched, those few who lived are now something that had always lived inside of them.

The second, and final book in this series picks up pretty much where the first one left off, where the group is trying to stay alive and make a safe place for themselves and others. It stayed with the main plot of teachers who talked like teenagers and liked to drink wine and smoke pot in front of the kids in their care and let a 'mature' teenager join them, but the religious preaching, (yes, I'm a Pagan) wasn't as shove down the reader's throat as the first book, and I did like how the Christian of the group accepted the others instead of trying to force them to believe as she did, and the Pagans allowed her to believe as she wanted. “Love thy neighbor..."

I did listen to this book and while the narrator had great voice changes for the different characters, she had a couple of voices that were flat and monotone and made the characters come across as unfeeling, stuck-up b***hes who still thought they were one of the high school teens they used to teach.

As to spoilers, I can't give any more detail other than it is a good story and series, I just wish the teachers acted more like adults. (The Christian acted more like an adult than the others and that could come across unfavorably for the Pagan religions.)

While I can't give it a high rating, I do still recommend it to older readers (because of the violence and the gore/violence in the first book), as an easy/quick read.

2 Stars