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A review by capellan
Glimmer of Hope by Ryan King
2.0
When nuclear war devastates the US, luck and geography conspire to let a small part of Kentucky survive relatively unscathed. They have food and even - thanks to a hydroelectric dam - electric power, but they also have gangs and hostile fiefdoms emerging on their borders. Can they protect what they have?
It's not a bad premise, but King spreads his attention over rather too many point of view characters, which exposes the lack of depth of character - it's hard to tell the voices apart - and makes the lack of female characters really, really obvious, since literally every single one of the near-dozen such characters are of course, dudes.
There's also a ham-fisted "To Be Continued" epilogue, which always irks me. Don't undermine this book to try to sell me your next one. It literally has never worked.
It's not a bad premise, but King spreads his attention over rather too many point of view characters, which exposes the lack of depth of character - it's hard to tell the voices apart - and makes the lack of female characters really, really obvious, since literally every single one of the near-dozen such characters are of course, dudes.
There's also a ham-fisted "To Be Continued" epilogue, which always irks me. Don't undermine this book to try to sell me your next one. It literally has never worked.