HOLD ON! – TOMORROW (Hold On #4) by Peter Darley-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 1, 2016

Hold On! returns for one, stand-alone, epic event.

The year is 2042. Twenty-six-years after the events in the Hold On! Trilogy, devastating earthquakes and tsunamis are striking in the most unlikely locations. Scientists have no explanation for the phenomenon.

Brandon Drake, Jr., (B.J.) a rookie government agent, courageously ‘borrows’ the INT-Nine, an advanced prototype suit of armor in order to rescue his childhood sweetheart, Heather Addison. Their lives change forever as B.J. becomes the new Interceptor. However, tragedy strikes when the armor fails during a rescue.

While the world adores him, B.J is forced to become a fugitive when Congress orders Project: Interceptor closed down. His life is complicated further by his mother’s belief that he isn’t just his father’s son – but his father reborn.

With The Interceptor on the run, new bonds are made and new heroes arise. To save the world from annihilation, they must join forces to discover the meaning of the mysterious abbreviation – C.O.T.

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REVIEW: HOLD ON! – TOMORROW is the fourth installment in Peter Darley’s adult, HOLD ON sci-fi / dystopian series. This is twenty six year old government agent Brandon Drake Jr. (aka BJ), and Heather Addison’s story line. HOLD ON! TOMORROW fast forwards Peter Darley’s HOLD ON series approximately twenty six years after the events of book three wherein Brandon Drake senior ‘sacrifices’ himself to save the world from the man known as ‘The Scorpion’. You do not have to have read the original trilogy to understand the concept of the current story line. Any important information is revealed where necessary.

Told from several third person points of view using varying time lines HOLD ON! TOMORROW focuses on a series of unexplained disasters that are currently befalling the United States of America. Brandon Drake Jr aka BJ, in an attempt to rescue his childhood sweetheart Heather Addison from the latest incoming wave of earthquakes and tsunamis, ‘borrows’ the government’s new experimental INT-Nine suit of armor and flies off to save the day. What ensues are Brandon’s attempts to use the new ‘Interceptor’ program to help those who are unable to help themselves and the struggle to get past the government bureaucracy demanding the program be shut down.

HOLD ON! TOMORROW is a sci-fi story line that reads like a comic book adventure – Ironman meets Superman – a hero with a weaponized suit of armor who flies in and saves the day but in doing so finds himself public enemy number one as a number of government bureaucrats deem his heroics a dangerous stunt without permission from the highest levels. BJ becomes the target of a zealous Senator whose actions are questionable at every turn; and threats of another nature from a group known only as C.O.T. are linked to the ‘natural disasters’ that may or may not be natural at all.

The writing style and presentation of the story line are simple; the conversations between the characters, especially BJ and those he ‘saves’ is almost child-like and innocent in nature.

If you are a fan of comic-book style heroes, HOLD ON!-Tomorrow may be just what the Saturday afternoon, sci-fi lover ordered.

Reading Order and Previous reviews
Hold On !
Go! Hold On Season 2
Run ! Hold On Season 3
Hold On! Tomorrow

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Peter Darley (P.D. to his friends) is a British novelist, whose professional history is in showbusiness. He is a graduate of the Birmingham School of Speech and Dramatic Art, and he studied television drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA.) His television credits include guest-starring roles is UK productions such as BBC’s Crime Ltd, Stanley’s Dragon for ITV, The Bill, and Sky One’s Dream Team, and numerous TV commercials. He has also worked as a model, presenter, and voice-over artiste for ten years, and has acted as an agent for several variety acts.

His lifelong admiration of heroes, and love of roller-coaster-style thrills have been a huge influence on his writings.

He is also a professional close-up magician, a keen athlete and body builder, and lives with his wife in rural England.