Review: sadly disappointed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
The first book, Collapse, was a book I couldn't put down. It was incredibly realistic and really sucked you into theblives of his characters and I eagerly awaited the release of Resistance. Since the start of Collapse was a little slow, I was expecting that to possibly be the case here as well, yet it wasn't just the beginning, it felt like the entire book was slow. I found myself wanting to start a different book throughout the whole thing, but I did eventually finish, if only to give the first book justice. We are thrust quite a bit into the future from where Collapse ended, and we are only given minimal details on how all our characters got there. Several main characters are killed off, and they weren't really given justice in my opinion. Then to top it all off the whole plot seems to swerve alarmingly towards a whole new avenue of disaster, when really I felt there was quite a bit to work with without throwing in whole other countries to contend with. I gave 2 stars instead of 1 because there are moments where Richard's writing grabs you again and shows you he has real potential, but the moments aren't frequent enough for me to buy the 3rd book whenever it makes its debut.