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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bleak view of an future where the oil has run out,
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This review is from: Afterlight (Kindle Edition)
Alex Scarrow is becoming one of my favourite authors. His books are both compelling and page turners that stay in your head for a long time afterwards. Last Light was a great thriller which had a very scary message which I still talk about a couple of years later.
Afterlight is the follow up to Last Light and you could read it without having read that, but you would be missing out big time. I've finished it in a day; no way was I going to leave it until tomorrow to finish! Afterlight is, interestingly, set 10 years after a `big crash' when the oil stopped flowing and the lights went out and the food stopped coming. The Sutherland family are surviving on an oil rig with a community of fellow survivors, but their sanctuary is about to be invaded by an unlikely source.. We are also given flashbacks to the O2 Arena in London, set up as an emergency point and we see how that has evolved over the years and how it might clash with the community on the oil rig. Fast paced, engrossing and very entertaining thriller, certainly of appeal to those who enjoyed the BBC's "Survivors" but also those who might have liked "The Road". But this is not just an action thriller, there is a theme about humanity and one about the choices you have to make. Mr Scarrow does not play in any particular genre, his last (the excellent October Skies) was set in the pioneering Old West, but he is a clever and thoughtful writer and whatever he puts out seems to be very readable. I imagine I will buy his next book, whatever the subject because he has not let me down yet. Recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Alex Does it AGAIN!!,
By Historical Fiction Fan (Bordashello) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Afterlight (Kindle Edition)
Set 10 years after Last light Afterlight for me is a book about the last best hope for Humanity (to steal a line from BSG).
Alex sets out with some old faces to explore a time after the oil crash, have we changed, can we adapt/ change and create a new future? or are there just too many out there who hunger for the days of old and the power that they can reap for themselves. Following the fates of the Sutherland Children while they explore their past and look to the future. Again alex weaves the story brilliantly with wonderful characters (his truly best writing gift). This book delivers just as much as Last light and then gives you even more, action, pace, characters, depth, humour and sorrow...what more could you ask for in a story. Buy this book you will not be disapointed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great story relevant to our times--- but feels somehow incomplete,
By Mainak Dhar "Cubicle dweller by day, writer b... (Bangkok, Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Afterlight (Kindle Edition)
I read Last Light by Alex Scarrow and enjoyed it so much that I picked up Afterlight. Last Light was a wonderful novel based on the simple premise of what post-oil civilization would look like, telling the story of the rapid breakdown of civilization as we know it when the oil tap is turned off, through co-ordinated acts of sabotage, told through the eyes of one family. Afterlight is a worthy sequel, detailing how the family copes with the aftermath, establishing a colony of survivors on an oil rig and gradually fighting their own battle for survival before they begin to re-establish civilization. A very well written tale, with strong characters, good pacing, the various threads working well together. So, on the whole a novel I would recommend- in fact, I would recommend that anyone read both Last Light and Afterlight for a satisfying read.
Being a writer myself, I don't like to get pretentious and slam any fellow writer on reviews- since I know how easy it is to criticize someone else's creation and how tough it is to create something yourself. But what I would offer up as a build to what would have made Afterlight even more complete- the dark powers behind the oil crisis aren't really revealed and we aren't told anything more about them. Even as Afterlight reaches its conclusion, the reader is left wondering what happened to them and what they are up to. If their whole plot was to take over control over the world, where are they now? Perhaps I had all these questions since I was so immeresed in the story, and perhaps Mr. Scarrow has another sequel up his sleeve to close this loop. If that's the case, count me in as someone who will read it as soon as it's out.
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