Even the author’s notes left me a little unsettled.

Miss! It’s completely, unbelievable fantastic. It sickens me, and the worst part: I completely believe it. In a world where everyone is struggling to see the next day, the worst side of human kind will show its face. It definitely makes you think on what people will do to survive. Some people, after a disaster to such degree, after having seen their friends and families die without being able to do a thing about it, after living with a hunger so deep that it affects your mind, will become nothing more than savages. What this unhindered reality gives us is an in depth, realistic look into humanity. It’s the end of the world, ladies and gentleman, get ready for it! Ashen Winter is not for the faint of heart. It’s gory, it’s raw, it’s violent to no end it made me squirm and grimace. One that makes you truly fear the possibility of this world invading our reality. Sure we have dystopians and zombie novels, but nothing makes a story more compelling than one that could happen at any moment. The aftermath of such a disaster that has been created in this book and it’s predecessor is unlike anything I’ve ever read.

Ultimately, mother nature does as she pleases. Sure, if it even erupts at all, it probably wouldn’t happen for decades–or maybe it will. I honestly felt their unrelenting weariness from being thrown into their shoes while reading this novel.Ī Supervolcano eruption is no unrealistic event. Their strength makes me feel incompetent! The emotional investment in these people is so poignant that I found myself mimicking their state of minds Their pain was my pain, their fatigue was my own.

Darla and Alex are the perfect team who are both amazingly competent and determined. You care about them, you want them to live and find their loved ones.

Not the type of suspense that leaves characters as little more than words on a page, this series is suspenseful and will make your heart literally backflip because of its characters. Every single page of this novel is filled with intense suspense. What we have here, friends, is a non stop–and I mean, zero freaking breaks!–action packed thrill ride that will leave you so exhausted with excitement that you might literally just find yourself breathless. Picking up 6 months after Ashfall’s ending, we are thrown into a deep desolation the dark, cold aftermath of a Supervolcano eruption.Īlex and Darla, the fabulous couple who met in Ashfall are leaving the routine and relative safety of the farm to go find Alex’s parents. Ashfall – one of my favourite books of all time – could not have had a better sequel in Ashen Winter.

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