Ashen Winter is the second book of Mike Mullin's Ashfall trilogy.
It's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex's relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in the this series. It's also been six months waiting for Alex's parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey to Iowa to find and bring back Alex's parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois. But the landscape they cross si even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive.
The Breakdown:
1. I absolutely love post-apocalypse stories, and Mullin has created quite the dozy of one with his Ashfall series. Although, these books remind me that I would be one of the first to go in these situations. The world in these books is bleak and a true survival of the fittest. It is amazing what people will do to survive. That being said, there are bright spots of humanity in this crazy world, like Rita Mae the amazing librarian.
2. Alex is an amazing character, who despite all his has had to endure, is still a decent guy. He is willing to help those who are weaker than him, and his is fiercely loyal to those he loves. He does the right thing on several occasions when it would just been easier to look the other way.
3. So I totally get that Darla is the more practical of character in the relationship, but there are times when her callousness bothers me. She, unlike, Alex is willing to look the other way at times.
4. It will definitely be interesting to see how the introduction of the new characters play out in the last book of the series, and how the ending will effect where the story goes from here.
To Read or Not to Read:
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Paranormalcy
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