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title: "Afterlight Paperback – January 1, 2011"
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# Afterlight Paperback – January 1, 2011

**Brand:** alex scarrow
**Price:** S$38
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Afterlight Paperback – January 1, 2011 by alex scarrow
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## Customer Reviews

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    Great story relevant to our times--- but feels somehow incomplete
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2011*

I read Last Light by Alex Scarrow and enjoyed it so much that I picked up Afterlight. Last Light was a wonderful novel based on the simple premise of what post-oil civilization would look like, telling the story of the rapid breakdown of civilization as we know it when the oil tap is turned off, through co-ordinated acts of sabotage, told through the eyes of one family. Afterlight is a worthy sequel, detailing how the family copes with the aftermath, establishing a colony of survivors on an oil rig and gradually fighting their own battle for survival before they begin to re-establish civilization. A very well written tale, with strong characters, good pacing, the various threads working well together. So, on the whole a novel I would recommend- in fact, I would recommend that anyone read both Last Light and Afterlight for a satisfying read.Being a writer myself, I don't like to get pretentious and slam any fellow writer on reviews- since I know how easy it is to criticize someone else's creation and how tough it is to create something yourself. But what I would offer up as a build to what would have made Afterlight even more complete- the dark powers behind the oil crisis aren't really revealed and we aren't told anything more about them. Even as Afterlight reaches its conclusion, the reader is left wondering what happened to them and what they are up to. If their whole plot was to take over control over the world, where are they now? Perhaps I had all these questions since I was so immeresed in the story, and perhaps Mr. Scarrow has another sequel up his sleeve to close this loop. If that's the case, count me in as someone who will read it as soon as it's out.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Better than the first book - must read!
  

*by P***. on Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2021*

Author is right in the epilogue - there is a lot of post-apocalyptic movies or books focused on times right after the crash. That is why this book is so refreshing as the action happens 10 after the oil stops flowing. It presents a compelling vision of how rebuilding the world might look like. I liked the ending very much (no spoilers) and that's why this book deserved its 5 stars.

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    Too Slow a Start and Too Quick a Finish.  However, the Middle is Worth the Ride!
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2012*

The book started off so slow that I actually put it down and started another.In previous reviews I have commented that when "bad things" happened that they happened at 10k feet.  This is not the case in "Afterlight".  Graphic is what you get here!The Reviewer that made an analogy to the fine BBC program "The Survivors", where the children were rewarded with video games, has a point.  However, in the series the children were sent out to forage, where these kids were more reminiscent of the child soldiers in Africa, in that they are also given access to drugs, alcohol and even women.I do find it somewhat implausible in that a non military bureaucrat would succeed in not only separating the boys from the girls for his special brand of brainwashing, but also to convince 30-military and 27-police officers to simultaneously turn over their firearms for a weapons test!  I mean could anyone really be that stupid?Yes, there are soapbox messages about peak oil and consumerism run amok.  However, in the context of "Afterlight", it doesn't bother me as much as it might due to the simple fact that the disaster was engineered as an exercise in population control that went too far and could not be re-started.The ending was a little too neat for me and I doubt that there will be a 3rd, as the Author has a highly successful teen series.

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