Review: Apocalypse is actually a good thing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2012
This story stands on the strength of the characters and the way they develop as individuals, enhanced by the way they play off each other. Char starts out as a reluctant not-quite-evacuee and learns to live again in a remarkably credible series of scenes in a very short book. The layers to Jake, from his start as an unassuming flyboy to a real person and valued partner are as deftly limned. Even Mike, a guy you really do need to hate by the end of the story, doesn't immediately show up on the reader's radar as anyone other than what he's presented to be: a friend with some inside information, taking care of his girlfriend's sister.All of these relationships lend real credence to a world gone pear-shaped, and the other very interesting leitmotif about being "natural" carries the thread of the potential resurrection of a much-abused planet to a very strange, but nonetheless convincing conclusion. I'm very much looking forward to the follow-on novels.