A review by arjohnson5623
Aftermath by Chuck Wendig

2.0

Yowza. This was rougher than I expected. The writing style of the author felt like it should have been pitched toward children rather than adults. The sentences were short, choppy, and strangely formatted in a way that made me feel as though I was making progress only through abrupt jerks forward. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and while I appreciate the glimpses of what was happening on other worlds across the galaxy in the aftermath of the second Death Star's destruction, it felt disjointed, or as though the story had some sort of attention deficit disorder. I didn't feel particularly endeared to any one character as a result, and by the climax I wasn't satisfied. I hadn't gone through the muck and the mire with these characters, only read about it, I didn't particularly care whether they lived or died. I can appreciate what the author was trying to do in both laying foundations for stories to be told, along with trying to express the vastness of this conflict, but in my opinion? The story fell flat.