Review: Interesting universe, uniquely told
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
We have an apocalypse, not well explained, but the effects on the average joes established through vignettes. An exodus, also ill explained from a science point of view, but emotionally well illustrated by a few character stories.  Political intrigue, well conceled from the reader, but again illustrated by the reaction of characters.  Less a novel than a collection of stories around a novel's theme - it is almost as if Mr Gurley was writing folllow-ups to someone else's universe.  And yet he takes us along and builds our understanding of the emotional impact of that universe on some well-defined characters- you may not like some of them, but you will know them.  The author does not use a sledge-hammer to tease for the second book, as is too often the wont, these days - but he makes you want to buy the next book, all the same, just to see where his universe is going.On lack of quotation marks: Perhaps quotation marks interfere with the author's writing when he is on a roll and his editors are too lazy to fiill them in afterwards on this behalf. it is only bothersome to a pedant  (and I am pedantic about other things, so this did not bother me at all) but one wonders why they would offend the many potential reader's who are put off by this conceit.