reviewed live on bookshow by Brian Lowen 16th Jan 2014
A rather strange
book this which starts off as a disaster type story and then moves into science
fiction.
13 year old Abby
is staying with her Dad in his eighth floor penthouse in London during the
summer holidays. She is woken one night by a strange rumbling noise which
steadily gets worse. Looking out of her window when dawn breaks she is
horrified to see water lapping at the window sill. The whole city has been
submerged by a tidal wave with just a few tall buildings left sticking up out
of the water.
There is no power
or water but they manage to cook some food over a camping stove using bottled
water to drink. After three days the water starts to drop and eventually
retreat far enough for them to venture out. The whole city is covered in mud
and vegetation and seaweed and there are hundreds of dead bodies in the
streets. They manage to get some tinned food from a wrecked supermarket
together with a supply of bottled water. The descriptions of the scenes they
find in the wrecked city are horrific with no gruesome details spared.
decide to try and get to Scotland where Abby’s Mum and her Dad’s ex-wife live. There are no means of transport left so they set off to walk to Scotland where they assume there must be higher ground that escaped the flood.
And
so we follow them on their tortuous journey as the small band sets off. They
meet other groups of survivors on the way, some friendly, some not, and then
they run into the aliens who obviously caused the flood and attack any humans.
I
found the book very depressing with no light patches to ease the dreadful
situation they find themselves in. Also the ending was very disappointing with
no explanation of what caused the flood and no proper resolution with the
aliens. I nearly gave up on the book several times but kept going to see what
happened in the end, only to be disappointed.
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