Review: So many paths...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
Aliens decide that humans don't deserve the beautiful, and bountiful planet we live on. The problem is, they are not very much more advanced than we are -except in space travel obviously- they don't want to destroy the planet to conquer it. Nor do they have the capabilities to take us on head to...er...head so to speak. So, they send in a plague virus that makes the Black Death of Europe look like a common cold. The plague wipes out most of humanity in just a matter of weeks. When they begin their attack, the humans that are immune fight back and end up bringing down the Mother Ship in the most unconventional of methods and nearly wipes them (the Aliens) out! Right back attacha!! Leaving only a tiny remnant of both species. Decimated. No technology. And trapped in the apocalyptic world they've created.. So the author starts the survivors down their paths as they deal with the collapse of society. Each consecutive book tells of life after the attack from completely different characters and progresses chronologically through the years as each new group takes off on a new path....I kept waiting for all these paths and characters to meet somewhere in some neat little clearing. But the author surprises by not converging the characters (only briefly in the first stages) at all! BRAVO! The author shows that it's the journey that's important not a Beginning, Middle, and Ending at all. And I can't wait to start down the next one.