Tag: post-apocalyptic
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Review: Divergent (Kindle Edition)
First of all, I received Divergent as part of an Amazon Prime deal which was pretty sweet, and I’d been mildly intrigued to give the series a go. I’d enjoyed The Hunger Games, which is a series of similar ilk prior to this. I’d had a few latent doubts about the Christian subtext that I…
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Review: First Activation (Kindle Edition)
One of the joys of Kindle is discovering books that I’d thrown on there in a sale but forgotten about; First Activation being one of them. The story starts out with an interesting premise that does provide a pretty good hook. Ex-Army brothers Harry and Jack are travelling across the Atlantic on holiday but, after…
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Review: Sunshine State (Paperback)
I recently was required to read Sunshine State as part of my Creative Writing degree course at Kingston University; it being a post-apocalyptic novel sweetened the deal a fair bit! I was tasked with reading the novel primarily to observe an example of setting and world-building, and it is on this basis that I begin. The premise…
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