Category: Apocalyptic
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Review – Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Format: Paperback, 312 pages Publisher: Amanda Hocking Publication date: 6 Oct 2010 ISBN-13: 9781453860953 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get…
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Review – Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther
Darkness Falling (Forever Twilight – #1) By Peter Crowther Format: Paperback, 464 pages Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date (first UK): 6 Oct 2011 ISBN: 978 0 85766 168 5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Synopsis taken from Angry Robot: Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ It was a typical all-American backwater – until the…
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Review – THOSE THAT WAKE by Jesse Karp
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: 03/21/2011 ISBN-13: 9780547553115 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ New York City’s spirit has been crushed. People walk the streets with their heads down, withdrawing from one another and into the cold comfort of technology. Teenagers Mal and Laura have…
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Dystopia Reading CHallenge 2011
I’ve got my paranormal and time travel challenges for 2011 sorted, but wanted to find an apocalyptic challenge somewhere too… The closest I could find was the Dystopian challenge hosted by bareadingchallenges and it’s close enough. I might have to just challenge myself to get some of the ‘end of the world/last man standing’ stuff…
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Review – Idlewild – Nick Sagan
Format: Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: NAL Trade Publication date: 06 July 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0451212061 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ From a bold new talent comes a smart, stylish near-future thriller that fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of…
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Review – Year Zero – Jeff Long
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Pocket Star Publication date: 29 June 2004 ISBN-13: 9780743406123 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ An archaeological manhunt is raging in the holy land — a hunt for the historical Jesus. For Nathan Lee Swift, the line between noble discovery…
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Review – A Brief History Of The Dead – Kevin Brockmeier
Format: Paperback, 272 pages Publisher: John Murray Publication date: 2007 ISBN-13: 9780719568305 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ ‘Remember me when I’m gone’ just took on a whole new meaning …Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks ago she and her friends found themselves alone in one of the…
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Review – I Spied A Pale Horse – Mark Timlin
Format: Paperback Publisher: Toxic Publication date: August 1999 ISBN-13: 978-1-902002-17-0 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ As the new millennium approaches, it is the end of the world for John in more senses than one, for his wife and child are dead, and society lies in ruins as a plague devastates…
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Review – One – Conrad Williams
Format: Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Virgin Books Publication date: 02 April 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0753518106 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ This is the United Kingdom, but it’s no country you know. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. At the end of this molten road, running along the…
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Review – The Quiet Place – Richard Maynard
Format: Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Grafton Publication date: 28 June 1990 ISBN-13: 978-0586208083 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Set in the future, this story concerns a group of astronauts who return to Earth after what they believe is 60 years. They do in fact arrive centuries after they set off,…