FUJIFILM Imagine Ireland
Photo & Video and Lifestyle
App
Order prints, gifts, canvas and posters using images from your iPhone! Imagine Mobile offers an...
Fotofinish
Photo & Video and Lifestyle
App
Order photo prints, gifts, canvas and posters using images from your iPhone! Fotofinish by...
Racing Bike Car : Motorcycle 3D Road Race Simulator Free Games
Games and Entertainment
App
§§§§§§§§§§§ Racing Bike Car §§§§§§§§§§§ • Endless game play - Endless Fun...
The Far Pavilions
Book
One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' The Far Pavilions is the story of an English...
Tap Tap Beat music game
Games and Music
App
Guide your Unicorn on dangerous paths. Listen carefully to the beat and play to the music, or you'll...
The Day The Eiffel Tower Went Beserk (The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1)
8.0
Rate It
Book
Once, the Umbrella Academy was unstoppable. Under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr....
Mould (Liam Tate #1)
8.0
Rate It
Book
Liam sees black mould when no one else can. It covers the walls whenever ghosts are near. Cleaning...
Pray for the Devil (2022)
6.0
Rate It
Movie
The Roman Catholic Church combats a global rise in demonic possessions by reopening schools to train...
Amy Norman (1042 KP) rated The Boy on the Bridge in Books
Jul 6, 2020
I would not recommend reading 'The Boy on the Bridge' without having first read, or watched 'The Girl with All the Gifts', as I felt this book relies on you having some knowledge of the current situation.
I believe watching 'The Girl with All the Gifts' gave an added depth, that helped me with visualising the surrounding world.
However, counterintuitively, I believe the author does like to drop his readers blind into completely new situations, where nothing can be assumed as normal, adding to twists/discoveries, and assumes you are intelligent enough to catch up.
This book is also a prequel of sorts, so some may find reading them in reverse order a better experience, the choice is yours!
The book follows a small science expedition, with a miltary escort, through a few narrators.
The characters perspectives are distinctly different, it is a joy to revel in just how different, and well written, they are.
The story itself unfolds with high impact stakes slowly building, and culminating in a fast paced battle for survival, as you would expect from any post apocalyptic zombie story, but perhaps not in the way you would think.
I absolutely raced through this book, it kept me gripped the whole time but it isn't full of action, and deals with the genre, in what I believe, is a fairly fresh way.
I would like to see more books in this setting, but perhaps centered around other parts of the world, and how they have dealt with the situation.
I would highly recommend the series, as they are well written and gratifying in that sense. I enjoyed the variance of characters, and the science was not overwhelming or detracting.
I look forward to reading some of M. R. Carey's books in other genres.