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A review by thebibliotaph
Manna City: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by Geoffrey Pierce
2.0
Manna city is the story of three people escaping from horrible circumstances, forced to work together and survive a horrendous trip through desert terrain. They need to get to some utopia city that may or may not exist, because an unborn psychic baby told them to.
So… That’s not even a spoiler the whole story starts out like a savage fever dream with the baby and everything. I admit I nearly put the book down after the first chapter. But I’m curious and wanted to know where the hell all this was going.
Now, if you like a dusty dystopian, think Mad Max and Conan the Barbarian, then this is a pretty good representation – I think?
The characters go through a very unpleasant test of human endurance. There is a lot of disturbing and harrowing things happening and it keeps piling up.
But I finished the book and that is saying something. What kept me going was the question of the city’s existence and the characters stubbornness to give up. Their dogged determination made me hope for a happy ending.
The book feels if it is part of a bigger story, like a prequel. It’s building its own mythology for this world, but I think I would have rather read that next chapter first and have this story explained later. But that’s just a personal opinion and doesn’t really help this review.
Summing up: The writing isn’t bad, but it’s defiantly not a masterpiece and it is in no way a feel-good read.
So… That’s not even a spoiler the whole story starts out like a savage fever dream with the baby and everything. I admit I nearly put the book down after the first chapter. But I’m curious and wanted to know where the hell all this was going.
Now, if you like a dusty dystopian, think Mad Max and Conan the Barbarian, then this is a pretty good representation – I think?
The characters go through a very unpleasant test of human endurance. There is a lot of disturbing and harrowing things happening and it keeps piling up.
But I finished the book and that is saying something. What kept me going was the question of the city’s existence and the characters stubbornness to give up. Their dogged determination made me hope for a happy ending.
The book feels if it is part of a bigger story, like a prequel. It’s building its own mythology for this world, but I think I would have rather read that next chapter first and have this story explained later. But that’s just a personal opinion and doesn’t really help this review.
Summing up: The writing isn’t bad, but it’s defiantly not a masterpiece and it is in no way a feel-good read.