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After the End
A group of friends and family head into the wilderness for a long weekend of partying and camping, but soon find themselves trapped by a mysterious event outside their control. As the group adapts to their vacation becoming their new life and deal with human threats, they find themselves confronted by something lurking deep in the wilderness. Something evil and ancient.
And hungry.
And hungry.
277 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 12, 2015
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About the author
Matthew Blake
25 books96 followersMatthew Blake lives in Spokane, Washington. He has been a fan of writing and reading horror since he was a boy. He keeps busy between writing and his three-year-old daughter. He was a soldier in the US Army and attained a degree in web development after his time in the service.
When he has free time he likes to play disc golf (a popular sport that a lot of people don't know about, you should try it if you haven't already,) and take long walks.
When he has free time he likes to play disc golf (a popular sport that a lot of people don't know about, you should try it if you haven't already,) and take long walks.
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December 30, 2017
Didn’t enjoy
This book wasn’t good in my opinion. The characters are completely uninteresting. It’s a chauvinistic point of view. Girls are only good for women’s work, they need protecting and a man. The story also goes nowhere and no one is curious at all about what’s going on. First we have a random attack by maybe aliens and then a bear, but maybe it’s not a bear. Honestly I stopped reading halfway thru, and it has to be pretty bad for me to not finish. It’s just so boring and pointless.
This book wasn’t good in my opinion. The characters are completely uninteresting. It’s a chauvinistic point of view. Girls are only good for women’s work, they need protecting and a man. The story also goes nowhere and no one is curious at all about what’s going on. First we have a random attack by maybe aliens and then a bear, but maybe it’s not a bear. Honestly I stopped reading halfway thru, and it has to be pretty bad for me to not finish. It’s just so boring and pointless.
April 28, 2018
Where do I start with this book?
The first thing that comes to mind is that this book annoyed me. I almost stopped reading it a couple of times, but I soldiered on (maybe skipping ahead a few pages at a time) and was even more annoyed at the end.
It starts with a large group of friends going on their annual camping trip. They hear an explosion, but don't know the cause. They go to the nearest town for supplies and hear from the parents of one of the friends that all the major cities have been taken out. "Spokane is gone." They are from the Washington area.
They decide to stay where they are. They have an incredible lack of curiosity regarding their circumstances. Some think it's aliens. Some think they are at war, but no one seems to want to go back to the Spokane area to find out what happened to their families.
They decide to break into three groups: Hunters, wood choppers, and foragers. The men are divided between hunters and wood choppers and all the women are foragers and food preparers. None of the women seem to have a problem with being treated as second-class citizens. They serve the men, eventually breaking into couples that have sex all the time (but they run out of condoms--oh no).
There's a bear that seems to be hunting them. They can't kill it even when they wound it terribly. It just keeps coming back. Is the bear an alien? Is the bear a ghost or a spirit? What is the deal with the bear?
I didn't care.
There are a lot of characters in this book and they are indistinguishable from each other (besides being assigned jobs based on gender). I didn't like or care about any of them. Of course, they run into marauders and other bad people and have to figure out how to survive a winter in the mountains (with the bear).
At the very end, they find out why they heard explosions--or think they do. There could be a couple of reasons they saw what they saw and that is really the only interesting thing about the book.
I would skip this one unless you're really bored and have no other options.
The first thing that comes to mind is that this book annoyed me. I almost stopped reading it a couple of times, but I soldiered on (maybe skipping ahead a few pages at a time) and was even more annoyed at the end.
It starts with a large group of friends going on their annual camping trip. They hear an explosion, but don't know the cause. They go to the nearest town for supplies and hear from the parents of one of the friends that all the major cities have been taken out. "Spokane is gone." They are from the Washington area.
They decide to stay where they are. They have an incredible lack of curiosity regarding their circumstances. Some think it's aliens. Some think they are at war, but no one seems to want to go back to the Spokane area to find out what happened to their families.
They decide to break into three groups: Hunters, wood choppers, and foragers. The men are divided between hunters and wood choppers and all the women are foragers and food preparers. None of the women seem to have a problem with being treated as second-class citizens. They serve the men, eventually breaking into couples that have sex all the time (but they run out of condoms--oh no).
There's a bear that seems to be hunting them. They can't kill it even when they wound it terribly. It just keeps coming back. Is the bear an alien? Is the bear a ghost or a spirit? What is the deal with the bear?
I didn't care.
There are a lot of characters in this book and they are indistinguishable from each other (besides being assigned jobs based on gender). I didn't like or care about any of them. Of course, they run into marauders and other bad people and have to figure out how to survive a winter in the mountains (with the bear).
At the very end, they find out why they heard explosions--or think they do. There could be a couple of reasons they saw what they saw and that is really the only interesting thing about the book.
I would skip this one unless you're really bored and have no other options.
January 31, 2025
I was very pleasantly surprised by this short book. Most of the end of the world books I've read are poorly written and not worth the time. I was genuinely interested in story, and finished it in one day.
Characters were a wee bit stereotypical, but I liked the detail given to day today survival. Would I have preferred to find out what caused The End? Sure, but maybe in a follow up book, if he writes one. I'll be more than happy to read it.
Characters were a wee bit stereotypical, but I liked the detail given to day today survival. Would I have preferred to find out what caused The End? Sure, but maybe in a follow up book, if he writes one. I'll be more than happy to read it.
November 3, 2015
Easy reading, went through in no time. I got harpooned by the story. Some things here and there needed further development though.
Looking forward to the sequel if there's one one day ;)
Looking forward to the sequel if there's one one day ;)
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