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Morgan Llywelyn gives readers a near-future, apocalyptic thriller with her signature depth and intimacy of character. In Drop by Drop, the first in a new trilogy, global catastrophe occurs as all plastic mysteriously liquefies. All the small components that make many technologies possible--navigation systems, communications, medical equipment--fail. In Sycamore River, citizens find their lives disrupted as everything they've depended on melts around them, sometimes with fatal results. All they can rely upon is themselves.And this is only the beginning.Llywelyn blends her signature character-driven portrait of small-town life with the appeal of William Fortschen's One Second After.
Author Notes
Author and historian Morgan Llywelyn was born in New York City to Irish parents. As a teenager, she moved to Texas and by the age of sixteen was showing horses at championship levels throughout the United States. She made the shortlist for the United States Olympic Team in Dressage in 1976, but did not make the team. She also modeled for Neiman-Marcus and was a dance instructor for Arthur Murray.
She writes historical novels that deal with her Celtic roots and is recognized as an expert in early Irish history and folklore. Her first novel was The Wind from Hastings, but she is better known for her second novel Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru, which was published in 1980 and has never been out of print. In 1990, she started writing for children and young adults. She won the 1991 Irish Children's Book Trust Bisto Award for Brian Boru and the 1993 Bisto Award in the Historical Fiction category and the 1993 Reading Association of Ireland Award for Strongbow: The Story of Richard and Aoife. She also writes short stories and has co-authored two fantasy novels with Michael Scott. She currently lives in Ireland.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Publisher's Weekly Review
The catalyst of this unsatisfying near-future narrative, the first SF novel from fantasist Llywelyn (Lion of Ireland), is an unidentified event-referred to as "the Change"-that causes plastic items to dissolve. The post-plastics era of uncertainty is mirrored in the small town of Sycamore River, situated somewhere in the U.S. Llywelyn attempts to show how the residents' lives are affected by the Change, but the narrative doesn't always ring true. Jack Reese, a world traveler with unusual skills who feels the need to get to the bottom of every crisis, starts to think about settling down. Unhappy real estate agent Nell Bennett is more worried about her marriage falling apart than her house doing the same. Industrial chemist Gerry Delmonico only briefly complains about losing his job before happily becoming the town's horse-and-buggy driver. Many others simply go on with business as usual. The intense focus on Sycamore River's relatively affluent and resourceful residents limits the story's scope, and the dialogue drags, partly because the characters are discussing complex scientific concepts and partly because everyone sounds the same. The story feels incomplete, and readers are left to wait for a conclusion or a climax-or anything-to happen. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.