IBR - Ashfall by Mike Mullin

[Ashley, The Tipsy Challenger]

Members Starting the BR: Jenny, Donna
Challenge: Book Quest Adventures
Book: Ashfall by Mike Mullin

Anyone is free to join in this Buddy Read! Happy Reading!

[Jenny]

I am starting this one again, as a reread it is good. Diving back into it makes me remember what I like about this story.

For those of you who haven't read it yet, just know, as the daughter of a geologist, I have known about the Yellowstone caldera since I was probably 5 years old. It is a real thing, and it is overdue to blow.
Not to make you nervous or anything, but you know...

The science in this book is pretty good, which I like a lot in a story that has a basis in science. It is one of my pet peeves when authors don't do the research, and this one did.
Not that this is a science book. It is a survival book, and a study on mans' inhumanity to man, as are a lot of dystopian books. But the protagonist is utterly human and imperfect, and worth reading about.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

I am starting this book now..

[Jenny]

Ooh! I hope you like it!

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Well, that's one heck of a start to a book! I am hooked so far...

[Jenny]

Right? Random loud explosions from nowhere, fire, claustrophobia, I wouldn't have survived that first predicament.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Maybe a little warning about the rabbit would have been nice. That was just a little too much description when a person is eating. I lost my appetite.

[Jenny]

Ah, life on a farm when the world is ending.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

That's it? I wanted more. I will put book 2 on my TBR for someday because I still have books to read.

[Jenny]

The next two books are also very good.
Curious if you are stocking up on Fruit Loops, just in case.

[Benedicte, Bookmark First, Ask Later]

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