Review: Apocalypse No Go
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
The premise sounded good: crazy, powerful solar flares knock out all but the most rudimentary technology. Chaos ensues. Apocalypse.However, this book did not go well.I found Malcolm ("Malc") to be inept and irritating as a main character. There was a superficial (and as usual, wholly unnecessary) love story fabricated for... for... what? The chats and moments between Emily and Malc concerning their 'relationship' seemed stunted and incredibly awkward.However all that could have been forgiven (or at least bumped this read up to a three star) if the tone of the book had been more appropriate. There aren't enough tragic deaths of characters that you're supposed to care about. Honestly, things work out way too well considering it's supposed to be the end of society as we know it. Apocalyptic books, by their very nature should be dark.There are flashes of brilliance - getting picked up and put into a military work camp could have been a very interesting piece of the novel, but it just wasn't fleshed out enough to really give any real sense of the horror.This book might have worked with some tweaks and editing as a YA apocalypse novel, considering the tone of the book, but as an adult novel it falls completely on its face. I can't imagine that I'll pick up the (inevitable) sequel.