Book Review: Ashfall - Mike Mullin

Title: Ashfall
Author: Mike Mullin
Publication Date: October 11th 2011
Publisher:  Tanglewood Press
Pages: 476
Link to Goodreads: Here
Part of a Series: Book 1 of Ashfall

Plot: Under the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet.

For Alex, being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence. Alex begins a harrowing trek to search for his family and finds help in Darla, a travel partner he meets along the way. Together they must find the strength and skills to survive and outlast an epic disaster.

Reading Period: April 08, 2016 - April 16, 2016

Review

Read this book for the Dystopian Challenge Group read a long in April. It was a book I wanted to read since I like disaster movies, the ones where there's a big earthquake or a volcano eruption or a meteor heading towards Earth. 

In this book the super volcano underneath the Yellowstone National Park erupts creating a big disaster in most part of America. 

The story is told from Alex point of view, a teenager who didn't want to go away with his family so he was left alone in his house. Then the disaster happened and ashes started falling from the sky, obscuring everything.

If in the disaster movies I so like, the main characters have to find a solution to save Earth, in this book it's all about surviving. alex has to survive in his difficult journey to find his family. A long the way he meets enemies and friends. 

I really liked the writing, it was fast paced and detailed. In fact it was so detailed I had to skip some parts, when they killed and butchered rabbits. I really couldn't read that part.

It finished with a cliffhanger so I'm really curious how it continues.   

  “For the first time ever, I felt ashamed of my species. The volcano had taken our homes, our food, our automobiles, and our airplanes, but it hadn't taken our humanity. No, we'd given that up on our own.”

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