![]() ![]() The Doom has destroyed their bright futures and now they have to adapt to survive. Most of the main good guy characters in this book come from privileged, sometimes very privileged, backgrounds. ![]() It took me a while to isolate the cause: my lack of empathy with middle-class America. Nora Roberts’ accomplished writing kept me reading, in much the same way that high production standards make it easy to watch “Chicago Fire” or “Rookie Blue” but the good guys didn’t become people I cared about and the bad guys seemed more like comic-book demons than people.Ībout halfway through, I realised that, although “Year One” was entertaining enough for me to stick with it to the end, something was preventing me from immersing myself in the story. The bad guys are irredeemably evil and everyone else is either dead or consumed by fear. The good guys are clearly drawn and instantly likeable. It’s an easy to read entertainment that effortlessly manages the large number of characters and multiple initially parallel but eventually converging plot lines. As billions die, some of the immune discover latent magical powers and find themselves drawn to The Dark or The Light. It tracks the path of groups of survivors of “The Doom”, a virus which kills anyone who is not immune. Year one is sort of urban fantasy twist on “The Stand”. ![]()
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