Review: Excellent! Highly Recommend! Buy and Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
I am reading this book again and I've reread it often enough that I'm not sure how many times I've read "After."  Krylov is an amazing storyteller with a credible, realistic story that examines how a society might handle a post-apocalyptic future, and important issues about sex and gender, reproduction and procreation, repopulation, strong v. weak, humanity and civilization. I consider an author good when their work draws me in so much so that something in the story stirs my heart and makes me cry. Krylov's writing and characters do that to me.I think there are many that might not be able to handle the significant sexual content of this book, but sex and it's role in society are paramount themes. There is some of that darkness and fear and violence glimpsed in "The Road" and "Book of Eli" because that's a realistic expectation of what might occur in the breakdown of government and society. Krylov offers great hope and possibilities for change with her revelations of some of the darkest aspects of our nature as sexual beings. I personally enjoyed all of the sexual content.It's a long book, but I'm the type that when I love a great story and characters I just want it to keep going. Now I have to buy a hard copy for my bookshelf, that's how much I love and recommend this book!  I just wanted to plug another book in the post-apocalyptic survival genre by John Silveira called "Danielle Kidnapped: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Ice Age."