Lissa Bryan
Författare till The End of All Things
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Verk av Lissa Bryan
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- Födelsedag
- 1977-07-27
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Yrken
- Writer
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I read Shadows Have Gone, book three in this series at the beginning of this year and I found the book very good. But it has taken me ages to get to reading the first book in this series. But now as I'm going through my NetGalley books have I finally gotten to this one.
Carly Daniels has survived a terrible virus that has devastated the planet and she hides in her apartment in Juneau, Alaska with her puppy Sam. One day she sees a man outside her apartment and, at first, she is wary, but slowly the man persuades her out of her hiding place and she learns that the man's name is Justin and he is an ex-soldier. Together they decide to travel to Florida where it is warmer and where they will have a better chance to survive.
What I like with this series is that there are no zombies or any other kind of monsters, if it is a "monster" is it people that still have the flue or ordinary people that have turned ruthless to survive. Carly and Justin have a rocky start, but they she slowly learns to trust him and realize that he is right, that they must leave Juneau if they are going to survive. I found that part and then ending the best in the book, Unfortunately, I started to get a bit annoyed somewhere along the way. Annoyed that Carly was so incompetent and Justin was so well trained in surviving. Could be the scout in me that just found her unbearable ignorant sometimes. Either way, it seems that she has lived a very sheltered life and hardly set foot outside a town. One moment that really mad eme annoyed were when Justin ripped a wedding dress to pieces to use as a bandage for future needs and she got upset because he was ripping apart someone's dream. I mean, come on, they are on the way to Florida, she doesn't know the women whose dress it is and they are trying to survive.
And, then we have the romance part. I can understand the need for human contact, for warmth and for the basic need like sex. But suddenly it's a love story. It's a Hallmark movie. After that part, the story just felt meh! Fortunately, the ending was tragically good. yeah. Except for one thing that I didn't like, someone that I liked very much died.
2.5 stars
Thanks to The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!… (mer)
Carly Daniels has survived a terrible virus that has devastated the planet and she hides in her apartment in Juneau, Alaska with her puppy Sam. One day she sees a man outside her apartment and, at first, she is wary, but slowly the man persuades her out of her hiding place and she learns that the man's name is Justin and he is an ex-soldier. Together they decide to travel to Florida where it is warmer and where they will have a better chance to survive.
What I like with this series is that there are no zombies or any other kind of monsters, if it is a "monster" is it people that still have the flue or ordinary people that have turned ruthless to survive. Carly and Justin have a rocky start, but they she slowly learns to trust him and realize that he is right, that they must leave Juneau if they are going to survive. I found that part and then ending the best in the book, Unfortunately, I started to get a bit annoyed somewhere along the way. Annoyed that Carly was so incompetent and Justin was so well trained in surviving. Could be the scout in me that just found her unbearable ignorant sometimes. Either way, it seems that she has lived a very sheltered life and hardly set foot outside a town. One moment that really mad eme annoyed were when Justin ripped a wedding dress to pieces to use as a bandage for future needs and she got upset because he was ripping apart someone's dream. I mean, come on, they are on the way to Florida, she doesn't know the women whose dress it is and they are trying to survive.
And, then we have the romance part. I can understand the need for human contact, for warmth and for the basic need like sex. But suddenly it's a love story. It's a Hallmark movie. After that part, the story just felt meh! Fortunately, the ending was tragically good. yeah. Except for one thing that I didn't like, someone that I liked very much died.
2.5 stars
Thanks to The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!… (mer)
Okay leaving aside how horribly the author anthropomophized the horse, it was a pretty good book. Pretty well thought out post apocalyptic happenings. I will probably go on with the series after a little break. Not sure why I thought reading a post world wide pandemic story was the way to go right not. Maybe because it was mostly already over with and this was mostly a road trip survival story.
Statistik
- Verk
- 12
- Medlemmar
- 80
- Popularitet
- #224,854
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 13
- ISBN
- 14
This is the first book in the series that I have read and I'm a bit surprised how is it was to get into the story and to get to know the characters even though the book seems to pick up precisely where the book before left off. Carly and Justin and the people in the community they are living in are all survivors of a terrible virus that have killed off most of the human race. They are doing the best to live in a world that is just a shadow of itself. Gone are all the comforts of the modern world. But at least, they have in this little community each other and they will fight for it.
My plan was to read the previous books before I read this one, but the time ran out. It's funny how months to read books suddenly can disappear and suddenly you only have days left. But it was as I started before easy to get into the book and I immediately got caught up in the story and it wasn't that hard to begin to care for the characters and hoping for their survival. The ending was a bit nerve wracking I must admit, I never thought that the story would take that turn especially when you think about how they all had fought for a future. But it was a good ending.
This was a really good dystopian book and I'm looking forward to reading the books before this one.
4 stars
Thank you Netgalley and The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!… (mer)