Heather’s Reviews > The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand > Status Update

David J. Schow, Walk on Gilded Splinters

I like the take on religion and how the events of The Stand would be remembered. I can appreciate what the author was doing here, but I didn’t enjoy it.

2.5 stars

Nat Cassidy, The Unfortunate Convalescence of the Superlawyer

This one is for Dark Tower fans.

4.5 stars

Sarah Langan, The Devil’s Children

Two generations after Captain Tripps there are survivors who have been hiding out this whole time. They are not the immune. Instead, they have chosen to stay sequestered and careful, but the immune are starting to break the treaty.

4 stars

Catherynne M. Valente, Came the Last Night of Sadness

See my previous update.

Premee Mohamed, Hunted to Extinction

I might need to reread this one…

2 stars?

Chuck Wendig, Grand Junction

This one takes place many years after The Stand. We follow a teenage boy who has been asked to help out the town leader. I loved the last few pages.

4 stars

Somer Canon, Awaiting Orders in Flaggston

This story takes place a year after the showdown in Vegas. It follows a group of people who managed to get away before Vegas was destroyed and a 12-year-old girl who never had dreams about Mother Abigail and Flagg.

3.5 stars

Ronald Malfi, He’s a Righteous Man

This one was wild. I did not see that ending coming.

4.5 stars

Usman T. Malik, The Mosque at the End of the World

Loved following Muslim characters in Pakistan and seeing how the superflu affected them.

4 stars

Paul Tremblay, The Story I Tell Is the Story of Some of Us

I hate this. It’s written in second person, which I thought was interesting at first. Ten pages in though, and I can’t do it anymore.

DNF