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Title: The End

Author: Matt Shaw

Narrator: Julian Seager

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-16

Publisher: Matt Shaw Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The world has been ravaged and left to rot, tainted with heavy radiation. The people on the ground - those still alive at least - aren't sure what happened and no longer care. The truth wouldn't fix anything for them. It wouldn't help them survive each day; their first priority. But why?

There's nothing left to live for.

Everything is gone.

This is the end.

Members Reviews:

Heartbreaking Apoca-Fic

This is a solid and dark post-apocalyptic tale.

The author never gives us too much detail about precisely what happened - there are hints of some sort of horrible occurrence, but it seems to be localized to one part of the world. The military simply knocks on the door and carts people away to a ship. They are being transported to a camp in America.

Luke is separated from his wife and child and is determined to find them - no matter what he has to do.

Now, I'll warn you that this isn't one of those fun post-apoc tales full of marauders and packs of cannibals. Nor, honestly, is there much adventure. This is a far more introspective tale, full of personal horrors and despair. For such a small book, it's surprisingly heavy with emotion and impossible situations.

What kept it from being five stars for me was the ending. I thought it was too pat and too perfect. For a while, I thought the author would take the hard road and give us an ending that, while perhaps unpopular, would be braver and more unsettling. While I understood why he chose not to go in that direction, I think that, given the realism of the rest of the book, the ending was unrealistic.

A solid, and sad, read.

For two brothers, life just got complicated.

While attending the funeral of his brother David's wife they are invaded by government soldiers are loading everyone on buses, forcefully evacuating everyone to the United States, during which many families were separated, lost, or left behind.

Definitely not the usual gorefest of a typical Matt Shaw book, yet with his usual flair and sense of style, you are treated to a softer (though not marshmallow soft) side. Reminiscent of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster where everyone was piled on buses, leaving all their belongings behind, Matt Shaw cranks it up to the complete evacuation of England.

His characters are well developed, the storyline well thought out, no typos nor errors with sentence structure, the events move along at a pace which keeps the reader interested in what occurs next.

Definitely an enjoyable read, would recommend to a select few of my friends and family.

Amazing writing

This was my first time reading anything by Shaw and I was genuinely blown away by how good it is. With the proliferation of zombie fiction in our culture, it's kind of refreshing to see an apocalyptic story like this one, not containing any kind of particularly paranormal angle to it.

What I especially like about this is how focused the narrative is. Could Shaw have taken another fifty pages to set up the story, offering an explanation for what has caused the catastrophic event upon which this book is built? I suppose.