The Remaining: Aftermath Mass Market Paperback – June 24, 2014
Author: Visit ‘s D.J. Molles Page ID: 0316404179
Review
Survival horror at almost its very best … Molles and Orbit are certainly onto a winner in a series that deserves to be seen by genre fans be it online or on paper The Book Bag These are my current favorite post-apocalyptic zombie novels! … I love how this series builds fantastic characters and poses them with and against one another in super believable situations. I can believe this future…The action is detailed and vivid Boing Boing Anxiety and building desperation fuel this debut zombie thriller … Sharply targeted sentences depict an acutely human action hero who wrestles his anxiety … Molles’s precise construction gives readers ample reason to return Publishers Weekly A well written, taut adventure novel with characters that definitely make a mark SF Crowsnest
–This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author
D.J. Molles has two published short stories, “Darkness” and “Survive,” which won a short fiction contest through Writer’s Digest. The Remaining series (The Remaining, The Remaining: Aftermath, The Remaining: Refugees and The Remaining: Fractured) are his first novels and have been met with overwhelming success. He lives in the southeast with his wife and daughter.
Series: The Remaining (Book 2)Mass Market Paperback: 448 pagesPublisher: Orbit (June 24, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0316404179ISBN-13: 978-0316404174 Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.1 x 7.5 inches Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #29,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #362 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Dystopian #442 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Military #618 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > War
This was a great book! It is at least as good as the first one. I have to admit, when I ran across the original e-book, I was a little leery about a $2.99 novel, especially in a genre that is as hit-or-miss as horror. If you are on the fence about buying either the first or second The Remaining e-books, do not hesitate, buy them.
I usually find it beneficial when considering the merits of a review to know a little bit about the tastes of the reviewer. As far as authors go, my tastes tend to run towards Stephen King, Clive Barker, Tim Curran, and Joe McKinney. The Remaining: Aftermath easily surpasses McKinney for exposition and it surpasses Tim Curran for pacing. While it does not have King’s eeriness, or Barker’s flare for making the grotesque seem poetically beautiful, it does keep the reader turning the pages from beginning to end.
It is always a pleasant surprise for me when an author takes the time to research the equipment and weapons used by the characters. I am pleased to say that Mr. Molles continues to excel in this area in The Remaining: Aftermath, just he did the original book. I realize most (or at least, some) readers could not care less about things like that, but it ruins my suspension of disbelief when the author bungles technical details. It makes me think the author was too lazy to do the research. This was clearly not the case with Mr. Molles.
As far as the story, it picks up right where the first e-book ended, and flows along at a logical and steady pace. There is a good balance of action and horror, and the characters seem to behave in what I would imagine would be realistic ways, given their circumstances and environment.
I enjoyed the first book enough to pick up the second, but had a few problems with it. I should have realized that the biggest problem I had with the first book would ruin my day in the second.
* * * SPOILERS * * *
In the first book, it seems like we get a brief "oops I’m sorry" moment and some "oh I’m so angry," and then the fact that Lee’s home and bunker have been destroyed fades into the background. Really? I would be pretty upset if my house burned down, and especially if some kid I just met was the cause, and even MORE especially if my bunker was kind of important to my survival.
It’s okay, though. We’ll just shrug it off and move on. Oh and we won’t actually dig around to see if there’s anything we can salvage from the house or the bunker, even though the bunker is underground and had a bunch of protection to it. It’s not like we’re starving and dying of thirst!
But as I said, the rest of the first book carried me along and I was curious to see what came of the second book.
Surely Lee’s decisionmaking would get better?
No. It wouldn’t.
We got the supplies! We had to leave some folks behind, but we left them with supplies, too, and a means of finding our camp (even though we didn’t clear this with the leader of the camp)! What should we do now? Well we should definitely NOT go right back to camp with these super important supplies. No, we should all get involved in searching a town for some relatives of a person back at camp. We can just leave this truck full of precious supplies here at random. What could possibly happen to it?
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