Liubava Efremova Efremova itibaren Araila, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dark times lie ahead for these few survivours of one of the world’s most devastating turn of events probably ever witnessed. After a series of earthquakes, bomb explosions and destruction North America (the setting for the several story strands though it is global) has been left in limbo with no communication means and the few survivours at a loss as what happens now. Then things get really scary. People start to change. Seemingly normal people that survived the initial events are becoming dark and attacking and murdering people in the most terrible ways. It’s almost like the darkest corners of their human existence that would normally be hidden away is unleashed and allowed to take hold. The best way I described it to others is to imagine that you are in a situation where a little voice says to do something awful and then your logical brain says no and makes sense; well that logical part is gone completely and the little voice is a shouting one with time to play. This book was disturbing. I cannot stress how fear-provoking and chilling elements of this book was and I was somewhat comforted to find out that some of my fellow blogger buddies were finding the same thing while reading it! It’s so realistic and almost believable in some elements that you can imagine it happening and the writing is so detailed and gripping that you are sucked into this horror story no matter how much you want to run away. Like our central characters, you have no escape and find yourself on tender hooks as each character chapter ends and clinging on until it picks up again. Honestly I kept wondering if this was really a YA books because I was scared reading this and could read it when it got too dark out of fear. I’m 26 and I was physically terrified to turn each page for fear of what was to come but couldn’t stop myself because it was just too good to put down. The stories are all equally engaging and thought provoking as a reader and you really get into their heads individually but some characters I liked more than others. I think my favourite was definitely Aries because she seemed like the most relatable of the characters to me and I think I’d be most like her if I was stuck in the same situation. She kept her humour and tried to be strong but didn’t pretend that she wasn’t always in control because in extremes like that I’d be shocked if you could be. You assume that all these stories will come together but it quite a long road because they are all so spread out and from different places mentally as well as physically but this gave you time to learn about them as people as well as the horrors going on around them in this new world. This book is very much a dystopian future fiction on the darker side as we see the darkness in humanity and a much more sinister look at the way fiction can be done when done well. Though at times I found the book hard to read because of how unsettling it was, in a way this made for a better read because it made me have such a strong reaction to it. It’s a book that’s meant to hit you in the gut with a sucker punch rather than just give you a bit of a shove. Not for the faint hearted and for fans of I am Legend type dystopias and The Walking Dead/28 Days later type horrors. As a debut novel; this book truly will haunt your nightmares.
More great action in this easy reading story. Society degenerates as things go from bad to worse and worse to worser!!! A really quick read but I can't wait for the next installment to see how they deal with the mess they're in .