A review by velsbooknook
The Only Light Left Burning by Erik J. Brown

3.0

It's the prequel to All That's Left in the World, which I enjoyed a lot but book two sadly wasn't as good as book one in my opinion. 
If you haven't read All That's Left in the World yet I would suggest to read it first before continuing reading my review. 

I LOVED the ending of book one and I was so excited to see more of Jamie's and Andrew's new life. The beginning of TOLLB was a little too fast for my liking and everything just went sad and dark so quickly. Jamie and Andrew lost their spark off-page and I didn't recognize them. I wish we would have seen a few more carefree and happy moments before everything goes downhill again. The lack of communication and also just selfish behaviour between the two main characters also really got on my nerves. It's a world after a corona-like virus which almost wiped out the complete population so I knew it's not going to be a happy story. Book one had a good balance between heavy and wholesome/funny moments which was missing in the story of book two. It was just so dark and heavy. 
I enjoyed that many new side characters joined book two but it took ages for them to develop personality and I was so eager to learn more about them! 
The middle of the book was so slow I almost dnf it. I'm glad I pushed through though because the last third got so much better. The end had some very sweet and surprising moments and I really loved it.
I still recommend picking up All That's Left in the World and the sequel. Both books have their moments and the end really is worth reading it.
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