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My Review:Title: Extinction Point
Author: Paul Antony Jones
Series: Extinction Point #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 283
Genres: Horror, Apocalyptic
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2020 Beat the Backlist Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Reporter Emily Baxter has a great job, an apartment in Manhattan, and a boyfriend she loves. All that changes the day the red rain falls from a cloudless sky. Just hours after the first reports from Europe, humanity is on the brink of extinction, wiped from the face of the earth in a few bloody moments, leaving Emily alone in an empty city. As she struggles to grasp the magnitude of her situation, Emily becomes the final witness to the end of our world… and the birth of a terrifying new one.
The world she knew and loved is dead and gone. Now Emily must try to find a way out of New York as the truth behind the red rain is revealed: the earth no longer belongs to humanity.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
4 stars — Oh dear…that was totally out of my normal realm of reading…. Very well written, great descriptions…I actually felt like I was there, and frankly I was terrified. Honestly, the only reason it didn’t get to more stars was my own personal taste….I tend to get really into books, and that’s not so good in a disturbing world like this. And I totally didn’t know this was going to be a series, so now I have to wait patiently and then read even more in a world where I’m not exactly comfortable, but I’m gripped anyways… Plus, Thor just put the final nail in that coffin. Well done Paul Jones. Well done.
ON REREAD:
3.5 stars — I still only have the old indie version, not the rereleased by 47North version, so that’s what I reread. Not sure what changed when it was republished. I’m hoping they cleaned up a lot of the editing mistakes, and the UKisms that were sprinkled throughout (tinned vs canned, Bergen, some weird word for tarmac/pavement).
I still don’t read basically *any* horror, so for me this was still very atmospheric and frightening…but I’m a super chicken, so take that into account.
I sometimes found that Emily’s reactions were unreasonable, but then it felt more like it was delayed or compartmentalizing, and then that actually felt pretty realistic. It’s really hard reading a book with basically 1 character — I’m used to enjoying secondary characters.
But then again, there was Thor. I forgot how late he comes in. I love him. I need more of him.
So yeah…definitely curious to see what comes in the next book, but I’m also kind of afraid. Definitely not a book I can read in a house all alone, or at night all alone.
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