![]() The reaction is similar to what you might expect if suddenly discovering a talent for painting, or playing the trumpet. People seem to mostly take it for granted that wow, suddenly now people are sprouting wings and hurling fireballs. The same can be said of the " magical" element. You get no sense of the daily reality of what it is actually like to LIVE in a post-apocalyptic world. We have the same exit from New York scenario that is standard fare, but apart from a rather awkwardly-worked-in single scene, it's nothing like the harrowing journeys that make you really feel you are by the character's side, and bond with them, and root for them. We get very little of the nitty gritty detail of what it would actually be like to live through end-of-the-world-via-plague like you get in The Stand or even TWD. ![]() The story is told from rather a distant POV. The fact is that this was one of the most boring apocalypse scenarios that I've ever read. There were even shades of The Walking Dead, in setting more than in the zombie apocalypse sense. It is very much in the vein of iconic books like The Stand or Swan Song. Now, I wasn't expecting a lot of explicit violence and gory details. So I was pretty excited when I saw that Nora Roberts was releasing a book that was more to my usual tastes. Fantasy/Horror type genres are much more up my alley. She is one of the very few authors in that genre that I will read. I am a Nora Roberts fan but not a romance fan. I would give this about 2.5 stars if possible. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain. In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river - or in the ones you know and love the most.Īs word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. The electrical grid sputtered law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. ![]() Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. ![]() The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. Perhaps it should have been longer, perhaps Catwoman should have by all rights got more screentime and perhaps they could have done without the ridiculous bats scene! Regardless this was a damn fine effort and I'd have liked to see more like this.#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (December 2017)Ī stunning novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts - Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives. With plenty of DC alumni appearing during the films single hour duration this is certainly one of the best Batman animated outings. With the voice talents of Bryan Cranston, Eliza Dushku and the late great Jon Polito everyone does a decent job and that includes the writers. Batman: Year One looks at how Batman, Catwoman & Commissioner Gordon came about and does it in a sombre drama style rather than traditional action packed superhero action. Due to it's origin plot and short runtime perhaps no expectations at all. ![]() After a string of bad to mediocre Batman animations I went into this with very low expectations. ![]()
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