Review: Great Companion Book!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2014
This book is a companion to the great series "A New World" and Mr. O'Brien has once again hit it out of the ballpark. There were many instances in the original series that may have left the reader with questions about survivors. Such as in the first book when he was on the way to pick up his kids and saw the woman in white dress or when he is on the way to pick up Lynn and drops a roll of toilet paper to a man that is waving at him from the parking lot of a store. How about a quick insight to who might be involved in the creation of the virus and why. If these tidbits found in the series made you wonder about some of the survivors, this is your chance to learn what happened to some of them and how they faired. He has once again masterfully explained some of the incidents that he was either aware of or missed in some cases by minutes or maybe from several miles away and the survivors could not get to him. Of course there would be stories aside from Jack and Lynn and the people that came to be his core group. And these are the untold stories... We follow what happens when people cannot grasp the situation they find themselves in because the truth is just fantastic to grasp or are helpless to just get out of the way. We see what countries do, condemning a small population in an attempt to wipe out the growing threat and how people and even the Night Runners fare. Some people rise to the challenge, some will fail miserably and others get what they so richly deserve. There will be small pockets of people that survive, some good people, some evil but there will be survivors. And of course we have fan fiction which followed the same venue that Mr. Obrien has given us. They are unedited but still very well written and faithful to the storyline of the series. My only complaint is that it left me wanting more.