The entire world has changed, and Noah has changed with it. A year after the Shift, the plans he’d laid, caches he’d hidden, and infrastructure he’d put in place have saved millions, but the world’s death toll has still been astronomical.
Now he continues his struggle to protect the people he cares about and to atone for his past weakness. Journeying with his elite group, the Merriweathers, Noah has been patrolling the eastern United States. He has been helping new communities rebuild from the ashes of civilization, but his true goal has always been a search for Humanity’s enemies, the Aelves.
But when Noah finally hears new rumors about his old foes, what he will encounter will be beyond anything he could have imagined. Ghosts from the past will return and new discoveries will create more questions. Noah will learn that the post-Shift world can be even more dangerous than anything he had planned for.
There might be something out there even worse than the Aelves.
My Opinion: 334 pages, $5.98, Available On Kindle Unlimited
The beginning is a bit slow as it recaps what happened in book 1 and the weeks between then and the start of book 2. The structure of the novel is different than the previous book and it has more of a straight post apocalypse theme so it feels different than book 1. But once the first mission hits, the action really picks up and doesn’t let go.
Game mechanics in the novel are the same as book 1, though I’ll say they show up a little more, the system is still light LitRPG.
I will say I really liked how attached I became to the starting group. It gave some deaths in the apocalypse world some real oomph. There is also an interesting twist in who the real threat to humanity becomes. I did not see it coming from the story in book 1.
Score: 7.8 out of 10