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amynbell's review against another edition
4.0
Have you ever craved one of those cold pre-bottled Starbucks coffee drinks for quite a long time only to chug it down mindlessly once you have it in hand? Well, this book is a little bit like one of those coffee drinks. I found myself waiting for nearly a year to read it only to devour it in a day without barely a blink. And believe me, you'll not want to blink because it is quite a scary tale. Once again, we follow Emily's quest to find someone else besides her trusty dog who has survived the red rains. She must travel north into the cold in order to escape the post- apocalyptic horror that seems to be scheming to prevent her success. It's a shame that I consumed this book in such a hurry because now I have to wait many many months yet again to follow Emily farther into the cold unknown in order to learn her fate.
evolvemind's review against another edition
4.0
Part two of three. Emily flees NYC and across North America to join the few other survivors she discovers. She faces otherworldly menaces and picks up a couple of other survivors along the way. It's an interesting and harrowing adventure. I felt book two flowed better than book one.
madags's review
4.0
As in the first book, Jones grasps the primary problem of any self-respecting apocalypse story which is, every-day ordinary survival for the modern human in a world bereft of people, fresh water and electricity.
A thing I like about Jones' storytelling is that he doesn't flinch from the death of primary characters. Of course, you wouldn't expect an apocalypse writer to do so but I find that often when you read these tales you can pick out before hand who is destined for the choppy-chop. Not so in this one and that's the kind of stuff that keeps me reading.
He also managed to fool me in a big way with a character paradigm shift which in hindsight maybe I should have seen coming, but I truthfully didn't. This made it all the more chilling and maddening.
You can read my full review here:
BOOKS – Extinction Point: Exodus by Paul Antony Jones
A thing I like about Jones' storytelling is that he doesn't flinch from the death of primary characters. Of course, you wouldn't expect an apocalypse writer to do so but I find that often when you read these tales you can pick out before hand who is destined for the choppy-chop. Not so in this one and that's the kind of stuff that keeps me reading.
He also managed to fool me in a big way with a character paradigm shift which in hindsight maybe I should have seen coming, but I truthfully didn't. This made it all the more chilling and maddening.
You can read my full review here:
BOOKS – Extinction Point: Exodus by Paul Antony Jones
silverthistle5b786's review
4.0
This is the second book in the Extinction Point series and I read both this one and the first one back to back. It's easy to get into and I really like the story but I was a bit apprehensive about starting this as I wasn't a big fan of Emily in the first book, which is unfortunate as Emily has been pretty much the only character for most of it up to this point. By the end of this though she was starting to grow on me...a little. She still frustrates me but if she continues to grow as a character then we might get along better in later books. The story- I like very much. Emily - Not so much.
This part of the series felt more 'road-trip' than 'alien apocalypse' if I'm honest, but I was relieved that at least Emily's bike wasn't such a feature on the road trip. It was ridiculous that she wanted to travel from New York to Alaska (approx 4000 miles) on a bicycle as the world around her was being overrun with aliens so I'm eternally grateful that that frustration is out of the picture. The fact that she's 30 (I think) and was living in New York and working as a journalist on the New York Tribune points to her being a fairly intelligent and able woman but yet she has no idea how to even start an automatic car (far less drive one), it's just too unbelievable. She maybe never learned to drive but surely she's been IN cars and/or taxi's and saw how others got them started? I'm not buying it. It was just one of the many, many things about Emily that agitated me. Things like that just didn't make any sense and felt like poor plot devices.
Despite all that though I'm still looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series as they become available, I'm just hoping Emily and I can connect a bit better than we have so far.
Note: I received this title from the publisher
This part of the series felt more 'road-trip' than 'alien apocalypse' if I'm honest, but I was relieved that at least Emily's bike wasn't such a feature on the road trip. It was ridiculous that she wanted to travel from New York to Alaska (approx 4000 miles) on a bicycle as the world around her was being overrun with aliens so I'm eternally grateful that that frustration is out of the picture. The fact that she's 30 (I think) and was living in New York and working as a journalist on the New York Tribune points to her being a fairly intelligent and able woman but yet she has no idea how to even start an automatic car (far less drive one), it's just too unbelievable. She maybe never learned to drive but surely she's been IN cars and/or taxi's and saw how others got them started? I'm not buying it. It was just one of the many, many things about Emily that agitated me. Things like that just didn't make any sense and felt like poor plot devices.
Despite all that though I'm still looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series as they become available, I'm just hoping Emily and I can connect a bit better than we have so far.
Note: I received this title from the publisher
willpollard's review
5.0
Still Awesome
The quality of the series hasn't diminished with book two, with plenty of action and some consistently solid character writing; although I'm not sure I'd be able to learn to drive vehicles quite so quickly.
Emily traverses a vast geographic area in this book, but it's handled in a way that lets you believe it and there is always a reason for her to keep pushing on, beyond the fact that she has a set destination.
It's a pretty ruthless book that does whatever it needs to do to keep the plot moving along and I like a book that isn't afraid to not pull its punches.
The series is going from strength to strength and again I would highly recommend it.
The quality of the series hasn't diminished with book two, with plenty of action and some consistently solid character writing; although I'm not sure I'd be able to learn to drive vehicles quite so quickly.
Emily traverses a vast geographic area in this book, but it's handled in a way that lets you believe it and there is always a reason for her to keep pushing on, beyond the fact that she has a set destination.
It's a pretty ruthless book that does whatever it needs to do to keep the plot moving along and I like a book that isn't afraid to not pull its punches.
The series is going from strength to strength and again I would highly recommend it.
finallywakingup's review
3.0
Another enjoyable instalment, this seemed to move faster than the first book.
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