Before the storm
Audiobook
Before the storm
Every apocalypse needs its rats
Stories don't usually start with the end of the world. But on Ler, the world ends every seven days when a magical storm sweeps through, levelling everything outside the protective barriers. When you knock gods from the heavens, you have to expect consequences. The gods fell eighty years ago. And their fall left Ler scarred and, for the most part—outside the protective barriers—uninhabitable. Magic-contaminated soil, mutations, and a lack of surface water are nothing unusual. Outside the cities, even one poorly charged battery cell can mean the difference between life and death. But not everyone has been able to accept this, and so they look for ways to outwit the laws of nature and man—like rats, they find cracks in which they can survive. But what happens when some people begin to realise that there is a vast difference between surviving and living? And what if the gods themselves realise it too...
Zuzana Hartmanová
(b. 1990) has known from a young age that a book is a person's best friend, and she diligently nurtures this relationship. She works in the digitisation department of the Municipal Library in Prague and is currently on maternity leave. She debuted with the short-story novel Noční labuť (Night Swan, 2017), which she followed up with the novel Perutě noci (Wings of the Night, 2019). Her Krysy apokalypsy (Rats of the Apocalypse) series, consisting of the books Před bouří (Before the Storm, 2020), Oko bouře (Eye of the Storm, 2021), and Bouřný úsvit (Stormy Dawn, 2022), has been met with critical and fan acclaim.
