Reviews

Grants Pass by Martin Livings, Lee Clark Zumpe, Jennifer Brozek, Ed Greenwood, Carole Johnstone, Shannon Page, James M. Sullivan, Pete Kempshall, Jay Lake, K.V. Taylor, Cherie Priest, Seanan McGuire, Kayley Allard, Stephanie Gunn, Ivan Ewert, Jeff Parish, Scott Almes, Amanda Pillar

shan198025's review against another edition

2.0

It was pretty good. The concept was great. But some of the stories weren't. The book had a feeling of hopelessness about. Most of the people going to Grants Pass were awful, planning to kill or steal from the people. I realize that the end of the world wouldn't leave only good people to colonize a utopian society but I have to believe that there's more good than evil in the world. Because if there's not maybe we deserve to be wiped out.

dancpharmd's review against another edition

3.0

I read this book right after I read A Land of Ash. Grants Pass was mentioned in several of the Goodreads reviews of A Land of Ash so I picked it up from the B&N Nook store for $4.95. Grants Pass is the place in Oregon that everyone is trying to get to after a combination of Ebola, superflu and bubonic plague wipe out 99.99% of the human population. To add insult to injury, "the big one" finally hits southern California - as if global epidemics weren't bad enough. In stark contrast to A Land of Ash, most of the stories in Grants Pass were international. This gave the anthology a bit of a different flavor. It really did feel like a global apocalypse. The eruption of Yellowstone would have global ramifications, but it would have nothing on the bioterrorism that wiped out the world in Grants Pass. On the whole, I didn't enjoy this as much as A Land of Ash. In many ways, it reminded me of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books without any of the choosing. Many were chilling and scary - the scariest ones accenting the isolation that an end of the world scenario such as this would bring. But overall, I kind of felt like I was always waiting for "how are they going to work Grants Pass into this?" Sometimes it was convincing, other times it felt very shoehorned in. It also suffered from more proofreading errors than A Land of Ash which is always a pet peeve of mine. So it was a little bit more of a mixed bag than A Land of Ash. Still, it was worth the read because it too was a really fast read.

fadedrainbows's review against another edition

5.0

This was a fabulous anthology. There were only a few stories that I did not like, and that was more because of the writing style than the content. I thought the idea of an anthology with a similar plotline was great.

I'm super happy I read this!

I would definitely recommend it for fans of the post-apocalyptic/dystopian genre, especially if you like short stories!

cyborgpotato's review against another edition

5.0

I'm such a sucker for post-apocalyptic fiction, especially short stories.