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Storm Girl Paperback – July 28, 2020

by Linda Nicklin (Author), Ramon Marett (Illustrator)
4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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Linda Nicklin's eco-thriller Storm Girl charts a dystopian near future. Planet earth has largely drowned under rising seas, disease is rife, society has broken down. Everything is now owned by the super-rich and exploited for their own personal gratification, including the people still struggling to live on what land remains... Angel, the Storm Girl of the title, has been harvested by a gang of Reapers and is frantic to escape what she knows to be a death sentence. Her only way out is through the treacherous waters of a drowned city. From depths of despair, she begins to find glimmers of hope, and becomes part of a growing resistance fighting back against the wholesale plundering of the planet. However, as the movement becomes stronger, Angel learns a devastating truth about herself. After all she has been through, she never anticipated needing to answer the question: whose side is she really on?
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    363 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    July 28, 2020
  4. Dimensions
    5 x 0.82 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1912053276
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1912053278
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fantastic Books Publishing (July 28, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 363 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1912053276
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912053278
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.82 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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Linda Nicklin

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Linda Nicklin was born in Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of the UK. She worked as an Occupational Therapist for a number of years before opting for early retirement in 2012. Giving up work isn’t as easy as stopping being paid for it, however, and the process of retirement has largely consisted of finding lots of new kinds of work to retire from.

Storm Girl was published in 2020. Linda has had several short stories highly commended, and playscripts short listed and performed as part of local and national competitions. Her scripts tend to be comedies and her novels dystopian. Linda is an active and committed environmentalist and apart from being revolting she says that writing is the best feeling in the world.

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Pete_A
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast-paced, action-packed
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2020
Margaret Atwood meets Waterworld in this fast-paced, action-packed, punk lit. Not for the faint of heart!
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Mark Henderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast-paced thriller, strong women characters, warning to the world
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2020
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Four stars or five? I started with four and then changed my mind because the reservations I had were of the kind "I wouldn't have written it quite like that"; obviously unfair because I'm NOT the author.

Linda Nicklin extrapolates from the current perilous state of the Earth to a horrific future where such scraps of our resources that remain are ruthlessly exploited by the super-rich and the rest of the (much reduced) human population is among those scraps. If you suppose this to be a hysterical over-reaction to the climate crisis by a half-informed zealot, read the Appendix of "Storm Girl" and follow the links. You'll find evidence for some of the wealth of impeccable research that has formed the basis for this story. It will give you cold shudders.

Three main characteristics of the novel make it palatable despite its brutally dystopian theme. First, it's what used to be called "a rattling good yarn", an adventure story, and the pace never slackens. Of course there are rises and falls of tension, as in any good novel, but the plot never congeals. Second, although the horrors of this near-future world are faced full on, they're never dwelt on to a maudlin or distasteful extent. Linda Nicklin presents them to us but doesn't wallow in them. Third, in addition to the wonderful protagonist, whose character evolves and toughens as her story unfolds, the book boasts a wealth of strong, brave and admirable women characters in whose courage and commitment lies a glimmer of hope for the world's future.

Other comments: Some of the "bad guys" can be seen as satirical portraits of certain influential people alive today. I loved them! Also, the protagonist's back-story is fantastical, but that's a necessary plot device and I had no difficulty in swallowing it as such.

Overall: what a debut novel! I started reading it in the afternoon and apart from a break for dinner I didn't stop until the small hours of the morning. I'll give it a few weeks and then read it again. Congratulations, Ms Nicklin. Not many authors produce first novels of this quality.
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Yorkshire Lass
5.0 out of 5 stars Ponderous adventure
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2020
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If you want adventure, family disfunction, mystery, romance, espionage, horror and a squint at what the future may hold, then you have stumble upon the perfect book.
The story flows effortlessly, carrying the reader along on a roller coaster of emotions as Angel (Storm Girl) navigates her way through a nightmarish world destroyed by climate change and greedy ruthless 'elites'. An orphan raised by her stepfather, Angel is abducted by 'reapers'. She manages to escape and soon realises that she has a huge responsibility that she can not afford to shirk.
Meeting each new challenge head on, we see Angel's character grow and mature into a beautiful, strong, tenacious but well balanced and compassionate young woman.
With reference to actual places, it is easy to visualise and be drawn into the vibe of scenes, some frighteningly so!
Although this is a work of fiction, it would be easy with only a small stretch, to imagine much of these horrendous things happening!
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Susie
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2021
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A great read, this book has it all, escapism, thriller, love story and touches on many of the current environmental issues and what we may face in the future. Additionally has the backdrop of places that are local to me, the Trent, York to name a few. Highly recommend.
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Penny Frances
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping eco thriller with fantastically imagined near-fi world
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2023
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Linda Nicklin creates a highly believable post-climate-catastrophe world where the remaining resources are controlled by super-rich elites, with the rest of the population held in virtual slavery, harvested for their body parts. The story follows Angel, the Storm Girl of the title, in her fight to free herself from the Reaper body harvesters, connect with the shadowy resistance, and in doing so discover her own roots and links to the elites. The book is a highly readable page-turner, which for me could perhaps have benefitted from more detailed characterisation of the main protagonists with more internal exploration and back-story for Angel in particular.

However, the set-up for this story is all too believable, as thoroughly evidenced in the links provided in the Appendix. Storm Girl also gives reasons for hope in the midst of its bleakness, through the wonderfully portrayed Beguinage women’s self-supporting community, the Star network of older people able to operate under the radar due to their ‘redundant’ body parts, and the sense of human resilience against the odds, reflecting that of people and communities already suffering the dire consequences of disaster capitalism’s refusal to tackle the challenges of our climate emergency. Well worth the read!
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Mrs C L Tallet
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing concept
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2020
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A story which hooks you in to the main character and lovely descriptive scenarios of a flooded world. Easy reading and a few evil characters to make your blood boil occasionally!
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