This is the second in a series of three books about a
supervolcano eruption at Yellowstone park, a genuine
possible supervolcano eruption point, and its devastating
effects on not just America but the entire world.
This book
in the series comes after the eruption has ended and the
world is suffering the after-effects, with people trying to
carry on with the lives they had been living prior to the
disaster. People are learning to adapt to colder weather,
power plants having problems etc, but the problem is that
this makes the book, to a very large extent, simply an
account of normal people's lives in what seem to be very
similar, if colder and with less reliable power supplies,
circumstances as before.
The book does give hints to the
slow collapse occurring by describing such things as how
bus services are being reduced and machinery is not being
repaired reliably and so on but this feels so similar to a
description of much of current modern life that it fails,
for me at least, to engage the imagination.
SUPERVOLCANO THINGS FALL APART gives the impression of being
just filler between the
other two books with none of the sense of being in an
alternate world I had hoped for from this very talented
author.
An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary. People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural resources are dwindling. And former police officer Colin Ferguson knows that time is running out for his family and for humanity....
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