Review: Very Creative, Very Compelling
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
This is a great sci-fi apocalypse book and is truly unlike any other I've ever read. The two main characters are very well written and very compelling. No matter what happened I always felt I needed to know what was going to happen next.After having read a slew of novels with lame, cookie-cutter main characters I was truly delighted to find one of the characters was undeniably a savant when it came to understanding the bizarre turn of events that threatened humanity's survival. This character's perspectives were always fresh and highly intelligent.The only minor gripe I personally have is that this book is so creatively plotted out that it almost felt as if the author had written it on-the-fly. Is it possible that this is one of those rare authors who writes without knowing quite where the tale will end up? Not sure, but sometimes it felt this way - particularly in one part of the book where one main character got separated from the rest through what felt like an unnecessary sub-plot being shoe-horned into the rest of the story. But this was only a minor lump, in my opinion, that I gladly took with the rest of this excellent book.