Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 2/2/2013 + 1031 more book reviews

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This first book in the series is, I think, the strongest. The descriptions of what happens when the lights go out are vivid and compelling. You may need a bit of belief suspension about the societal changes - not sure myself that Americans would fall quite so quickly into feudalism and Wiccan society, but I've let him convince me that electricity and gunpowder can suddenly stop working so I can go with the rest. But if you keep reading you'll run into incredibly repetitive and tedious battle scenes - Stirling loves to have folks stabbed "under the short ribs", their noses getting skinned from blades whistling by, horses screaming in agony and so forth. The good guys are knights in shining armor (literally) and the bad guys are Evil Incarnate (tm). Don't get me wrong, this is good post-apocalyptic fiction, but don't read them one right after the other.

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