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Without Warning (The Disappearance, #1)

John Birmingham

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Jun 25, 2020 Tien rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: australian-author, science-fiction, get-reading-2011, post-apocalyptic

One day, people all over America just... DISAPPEARED.

Hundreds of millions of people poof-ed out of existence and no one knew how/why. There were left little pockets in the country and, of course, those Americans who were overseas at the time of The Disappearance. How would these left behind survive and run a country which practically has no one left and with shortage of resources?

At first, when riots broke out as people wanting to stock up on supplies, I thought... yeah, too close to home atm an ...more

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Jan 19, 2015 Kerry rated it it was ok

Started reading "After America" before realising it was the second book in a trilogy so got this one instead. Interestingly many reviewers criticised " I am Pilgrim" for its American jingoism, but I found this far worse. The characters' attitudes towards other groups, particularly the French. would have brought a smile to the faces of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the other Neocon war mongers but I just found it irritating. More so I think because it was written by an Aussie. There are some interestin ...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Jenny Delandro rated it it was ok

I liked Cailin and her one woman war on the bad guys
Julianne was good to watch too.. but the end of Fifi was unexpected.
None of the male characters are even remotely charming or interesting except Melton but as he intersected with Caitlin.

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