Kate says… Humongous asteroid will impact Earth in 12 years. Suppose you were rich enough to hide that fact, at least for a while, and plan the human race’s survival. And your plan worked… mostly.
This is the premise of New Earth ARC, which is Part One of the series. The book does answer the primary question: will humans survive? But, while the story doesn’t end on an intense cliffhanger, there are more unanswered questions than not. If you find this annoying, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
I’m fascinated by doomsday prepping. It’s an intriguing exercise, planning to survive whichever looming disaster grabs your attention. Not that I “prep” myself. I live in a pretty-much anti-prepping location. I am disappointed, however, that preppers so often focus on fighting off their fellow survivors.
So, my favorite part of Devon’s book was the fabulously wealthy guy’s preparations. How and where to survive (in space and on the ground) an asteroid that makes the dinosaur-killer look trivial. He expected his three groups of survivors to join forces and work together to rebuild humanity, but (as you might expect) things don’t work out that way. The post-apocalypse portion of the book seems a bit predictable, but I could see it becoming a movie or TV series. As the blurb says, “On Earth there is a whole new disaster waiting for them.” If that’s your thing, this is the book for you.
By the way, I had thought to refer to an intense cliffhanger as a girl tied to a railroad track with the train racing toward her, a la Perils of Pauline. Surprise! “Pauline was never tied to a railroad track in the series, an image that was added to popular mythology by scenes in stage melodramas of the 1800s, in serials featuring the resourceful ‘railroad girl’ Helen Holmes in her long-running series The Hazards of Helen.” Wikipedia. So much for trusting my memory of classic fiction.
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