Max, who was easily my favorite character, died, and I was insulted on his behalf by the lack of significance Roberts gave the moment of his death. I can’t imagine I’d have been surprised by his death-I mean, Lana having dreams of wandering alone and heartbroken wasn’t exactly subtle-but I did read the book with a sense of dread, knowing it was coming.īut it’s done. Now I can’t decide if I’m glad I knew up front that Max dies or if I wish I’d been ignorant so I could have enjoyed my time with him without wondering if he would die on the next page, or the next. I had a hard time wrapping my head around romance queen Nora Roberts writing an end-of-the-world book, and I didn’t have faith in the quality of the work, since her stand-alone last spring crashed and burned, so I didn’t take Year One seriously-and decided to peek at the ending. We didn’t get a whole lot of explanation for the magickal side of the story yet, about what happened ages ago to have begun all this. No zombies, thank god I’m so sick of zombies.
And there were also ordinary humans who just seemed to be immune to the virus. A deadly virus spread with crazy ease and speed, killing billions of people-but also unlocking supernatural abilities in others. It’s probably been done before, but I’ve never seen the end of the world caused by dark magic. I was thoroughly impressed with the ingenuity and world-building in this novel.
A dark, magickal mix of Zombieland and Heroes
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