The Arrivals – 1st edition
Contributors: Anderson, Colin,
Year/Format: 2013, Book, 278 pages
I really enjoyed this story. In fact I would read more stories about this ‘world’ and with these characters. I kept feeling that if Steven King wanted to write a Sci-Fi [maybe his works are listed in this genre – I wouldn’t be surprised] he would write one like this. I liked the dream-like world with its nightmarish characters. The main characters were well thought out and I was taken by surprise often enough that I was impressed with the writer. Mixing up people from different eras was clever and reminded me a bit of Dante’s Inferno and modern stories about similar worlds where you are reborn and death is denied.
Melissa Marr is a new author for me and I am adding her to my watch list. The story is well written and she made me care about the charters in short order.
Library Summary/Review:
Waking up in The Wasteland, a world populated by monsters and unfamiliar landscapes, and in the company of people just like her, Chloe, riddled with the guilt of five years of sobriety down the drain, and a group of strangers are trapped in an eternal afterlife and must help each other find salvation.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy 