RUTH F. (ruthy) reviewed on 3/24/2009 + 56 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I like Stirling's writing. In this book I found that he wrote in a way that really flowed and made for easy reading. The main thing that I found myself thinking was - "What if the laws of physics changed so electronics and combustion no longer worked well?"
Can you imagine all the planes in the air plummeting to earth at the same time? And that's just the start of the book - literally. One thing of interest is that for the first time a large segment of the character population in a book were Wiccans portrayed as a way of life as well as a religion. And it was shown in a light that was reasonable and "normal" as opposed to being an abhorred concept. Very interesting because of the advice the author had from Wiccan advisors and research. I learned a lot and loved the "romance" of that belief although I am not of that belief.

As stated by others - a lot does happen. But that's good in this book since the probably horror of existence in the circumstances created by the author would be more than most could comfortably accept if told minute by minute and hour by hour. It does give one pause to think what it would take to survive and what we would have to confront to survive.

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