All of It

By: Jon Haag

Narrated by: James Blackmore

The world has changed, but time marches on, its passage marked only by the listless days and sleepless nights as David and his faithful canine companion, Tig, march across a desolate and barren landscape. God, if there ever was one, has abandoned mankind and left it to squabble in the dirt. With two mouths to feed and dwindling supplies, David grows desperate. He awakes one morning, cold and hungry, to find himself on the outskirts of a small town, seemingly deserted. Could this be his salvation or his doom? Left with little choice, David goes on, Tig at his heel. Welcome to Elm Brook, trespassers shot on sight.

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How do we rectify that we are our own worst enemy?

Following an apocalyptic shift in his reality, David has to decide who, if anyone, to trust in this new world, and how to survive with his his dog, Tig. It's intense, brutal and heartbreaking and grips you from beginning to end.

Post-apocalyptic fiction is usually tough to read. It's a harsh unforgiving world once hope has been lost. What do you do? Where do you go? How do you survive? Questions you don't normally need to think about or consider suddenly are front and center leaving you, as the reader, to wonder if you know anything about surviving a situation like this, and I think the answer for most of us is a resounding no. The reason stories like this are so troubling is that it's not so hard to imagine it happening. These types of stories are not so far fetched anymore. It's easy to get wrapped up the abstract horror possibilities of this type of world - zombies, aliens, etc - some outside supernatural force that changes the world we live in, but in reality, the most dangerous threat in a post-apocalyptic world is man himself, and how do we rectify that we are our own worst enemy?

This book is extremely well written and thought-provoking albeit grim. It forces you to take a critical look at the state of humanity, and how close we are at any given moment to falling into complete chaos. Great debut novel from Jon Haag.

Boring

I listened to this on audio. This book didn’t hold my interest at all. I played it in the background while working and it was just a bore. Nothing really happened. The typical apocalyptic story. The narrator was so mono tone as well.

Not a worthwhile listen.

Very depressing, nothing to look forward to for the MC in this book. Overwhelming sadness throughout this story along with descriptive degradation of humans during an apocalyptic end which of which the cause is never given. This author’s obvious atheism and delight in the fall of humans is sad. The book gives no happiness for anyone within its telling and ends with no point being made but we are doomed to all become immoral, hateful, evil beings. Waste of a credit.