Review: Review of After: The Echo
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2013
This is the second in the "After" books.  In one sense, both books are exciting, fast-moving, and tend to keep reader interest.  One can overlook a few grammar errors.The author stays on story and true to plot.  The characters and story line are the author's, so perhaps he has written what was intended.  The problem, as I see it, is that hischaracters are not very likeable.  Al three, Jorge, Rachel, and Campbell appear in both books. The reader must remember the story's context: Civilization has just ended, there isa fight for survival, and survivors are threatened by militaristic hooligans and brain-challeneged "zapheads".  But Jorge frequestly worries about killing the zapheads, moralityof taking things that formerly belonged to the dead, and fails to properly arm himself (he could have taken his dead employer's firearms, but didn't), and once dropped a rifle and ran inthe middle of a firefight.  The guilt-ridden Rachel frequently daydreams, lurching from one crisis to the next, forgetting that civilization has come to an end, but somehow muddles through.Campbell is so dumb that he should have been killed six times over.  Yet, the author extracts him from one catastrophe to the next.