About a third of the way in the story drags a little, and I was frustrated that it takes a long time before the title makes any kind of sense at all. It’s a good thing I hadn’t read this book first, for I would have found that the story I wanted already had been written. Dabei nehme ich an, dass dieser Umstand dem Autoren, als er diese Figur schuf, überhaupt nicht bewusst war. At points it feels as if nothing is ever going to go right for Beth but she’s a character who doesn’t know when to quit, which means that the story never feels completely devoid of hope, even when the future looks tremendously bleak – which it does, a lot.

A small military woman who the huge bloke also disliked, though not half as much as she disliked him. I don't really know what to believe happened at the end and I wasn't in the mood for that much literary ambiguity at the end of the book.Ich fragte ihn, ob er auch so handeln würde, wenn besagtes Buch ein Musikstück wäre und er gezwungen, ein 90 Minuten langes Konzert davon voller Kakophonie zu ertragen. The entirety of this was concerned more with his character progression than the actual end of the world, where my own interests lay. I was absolutely riveted and was rooting for this group of survivors as they made heart wrenching decision after heart wrenching decision. Their role was always to protect and provide, but these days most women are capable of protecting and providing for themselves and their kids. Yet a world that’s been broken offers its own kind of optimism; it can be rebuilt, and so too can relationships that before the apocalypse appeared to be unfixable.

And because the actually journey to the end is just a bunch of running, crazies and a whole mediocre mess of nothing. Ein Jahr zuvor schon wurden von Astrophysikstudenten verdächtige Veränderungen in der Nähe eines Jupitermondes beobachtet. Some long distances were covered but there was little to no reference to the struggles and strains of such an endeavour, over and above some general complaints regarding tiredness. He's just a loser with no ambitions, no drive, no motivation so even though he lucked out on marrying a decent woman and being blessed with two healthy, beautiful children, he still hates himself. From the title and the description, I assumed running the long distance would be the focus of the story but it actually only starts half way through the book and only accounts for roughly 30 pages of it.Before the first step, before the first muscle twitches, before the first neuron fires, there comes a choice: stand still or move. Rather than just being with his family, he volunteers to spend hours away trying to salvage supplies ‘for the good of the group’. I guess while I think I want books about regular people in extraordinary situations maybe I'm totally deluding myself.

I didn’t understand some of the characters motivations, but I am guessing a character like Edgar wouldn’t care either. Beispiel "Menschenflecken" (nicht meine Wortschöpfung), die bei großer Hitze entstehen wie einer Atomexplosion, findet man direkt neben alten Postern, die etwas zerfleddert sind aber immerhin.I'm not sure that I was exactly on the edge of my seat as I read, but I did read longer than I should at bedtime whenever I needed to see what on earth would happen next! It wasn’t neatly tied up with a bow but it gave our protagonist his redemption and, after such an exhausting journey, that felt like enough. You’ll want to meet Jesus, you’ll want to holler at the rising sun, and you may highlight a ton of passages on your kindle, like I did.

It was necessary and showed how some were responding to the events in the world, but I just wanted to see if they could make it in time and this felt like a barricade or barrier that was far too obvious of a plot point. If you like to root for your hero, then again you might find it a little challenging, though there are plenty of other more heroic characters to cheer for. Saying that – there is a sequel and frankly, I’m not 100% I can bring myself to read it, should it become available on Kindle here in Canada. Ed is an average Edinburgh guy - married, two kids, likes to have a pint or two after work, has become increasingly out of shape over the years. The main character, Edgar, is a more than a tad lazy, not a terrible man, but on a scale of 1 to 10 his parenting efforts stop at a 6.

I knew it wasn’t a book based around a Covid-19 type virus, so I had faith going in that this would be an emotionally charged, survive at all costs books. Für das Überleben seiner Familie ist von Ed nichts zu erwarten, in technischen Fragen ist er ein Versager.