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A review by jenpaul13
All That Remains by Al Barrera
3.0
When the world as we knew it has come to an end, the struggle to survive takes on new heights in Al Barrera's All That Remains.
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Thirteen years after the demise of the world as it once was, Kyle, Sara, and Tim are out from their community looking for more essential supplies when they encounter some of the creatures that destroyed their world. In trying to escape from them them with their lives, they are pulled from their single-minded mission when they hear the cries of a young girl, Kaylee, whom they rescue from the carnage surrounding her. Kaylee's mother was working for the government on something that could save humanity. While battling their various inner struggles, this group of survivors are trying to find the safe place in Tennessee where they might find salvation.
As a fairly standard apocalyptic story, the trajectory of the narrative was easy to follow; however, it seems to have used a lot of established zombie-esque, apocalyptic narrative tropes along with some intriguing supernatural elements (that weren't fully addressed) to construct this story, depriving it of much originality. I found that this text could use some more editing attention as there were some progression issues along with standard grammatical issues - for example, there was a moment when the trio of survivors are asking Kaylee about some men, where she said only "men" and the adult asked her about the "bad men;" this jarred me out of the text to wonder how the guys knew they were bad without her saying so. There's a lot of action taking place throughout the story, but there isn't an adequate amount of explanation of how the world came to be in its current state and the creatures that made it that way.
Overall, I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5 stars.
To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: http://makinggoodstories.wordpress.com/.
Thirteen years after the demise of the world as it once was, Kyle, Sara, and Tim are out from their community looking for more essential supplies when they encounter some of the creatures that destroyed their world. In trying to escape from them them with their lives, they are pulled from their single-minded mission when they hear the cries of a young girl, Kaylee, whom they rescue from the carnage surrounding her. Kaylee's mother was working for the government on something that could save humanity. While battling their various inner struggles, this group of survivors are trying to find the safe place in Tennessee where they might find salvation.
As a fairly standard apocalyptic story, the trajectory of the narrative was easy to follow; however, it seems to have used a lot of established zombie-esque, apocalyptic narrative tropes along with some intriguing supernatural elements (that weren't fully addressed) to construct this story, depriving it of much originality. I found that this text could use some more editing attention as there were some progression issues along with standard grammatical issues - for example, there was a moment when the trio of survivors are asking Kaylee about some men, where she said only "men" and the adult asked her about the "bad men;" this jarred me out of the text to wonder how the guys knew they were bad without her saying so. There's a lot of action taking place throughout the story, but there isn't an adequate amount of explanation of how the world came to be in its current state and the creatures that made it that way.
Overall, I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5 stars.