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nwhyte's review
4.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2575910.html
interesting novel, in which almost all of humanity is destroyed by a Doomsday Weapon at the very beginning, the hero spends many chapters exploring dead cities and finding the heroine, and they must then deal with the villain (the hero's surname is Adams; the heroine's first name is Evelyn). It's pretty heavily steeped in the writer's Catholicism and hostility to war; there is a lot of poetry (including some very coy use of Theocritus in the original Greek when the central relationship is consummated); the twist at the end appears to be a case of direct divine intervention. But it's nicely done.
interesting novel, in which almost all of humanity is destroyed by a Doomsday Weapon at the very beginning, the hero spends many chapters exploring dead cities and finding the heroine, and they must then deal with the villain (the hero's surname is Adams; the heroine's first name is Evelyn). It's pretty heavily steeped in the writer's Catholicism and hostility to war; there is a lot of poetry (including some very coy use of Theocritus in the original Greek when the central relationship is consummated); the twist at the end appears to be a case of direct divine intervention. But it's nicely done.
hammard's review
2.0
A long rambling post-apocalyptic tale which I struggled to complete. There are some interesting moments in it but mostly it's lots of wandering around Europe making weird Garden of Eden parallels and angry Catholic Apologism (like saying flowers will die if they convert to Calvinism!)
Read Mary Shelley's work of the same name instead, much more worth your time.
Read Mary Shelley's work of the same name instead, much more worth your time.
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