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First off, I'm over 40 and I bought this with my tweens in mind. After a chapter or two, I realized I would NOT want them to read this book until they were much older. Profanity, innuendo, sexual situations and violence throughout. Hunger Games, nor Divergent, nor Harry Potter are this mature. I'm enjoying the books, but only from a very mature standpoint. Interesting and thought provoking, and action packed, yes. But I will NOT let my tweens be reading these until 16 or so.

Reminds me more of Swan Song by Robert McCammon, just thinking of books I would compare these to off the top of my head.

Edited to add: just finished all three books. Honestly couldn't put them down. Mike Mullen is an amazing writer. These are so good, I'm worried that someone will try to make these into movies in the future, and will most likely butcher them horribly. I hope not. Mullen paints the pictures so vividly with his writing, a movie would b unnecessary. I'm STILL saying these are NOT for young teens. Very mature content. Love, love, love these books!! Thank you, Mike Mullen, for writing post apocalyptic books that aren't rehashed versions of others of this type. Alex is an amazing character.


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Ashfall Mike Mullin Books Reviews

Ashfall by Mike Mullin is the first book in a post-apocalyptic series about something that could potentially (and I hope NEVER does) happen. You know the super volcano in Yellow Stone national park in the US? The author has centered his story around the “what if” it erupted. I can honestly say it was a shock reading the story as the main character faced one problem after another, as he listened to the eruption, survived the ashfall, and then began to wonder about all those too close to the eruption who were killed almost instantly. I get chills even thinking about it!!!

Alex is a your average 15, almost 16, year old boy at the start of the story. His mom is nagging him, again, to go with the family to visit his uncle for the weekend. He gets out of it claiming homework, in reality he just wants to stay home and play video games with his buddies. And then the eruption occurs. Suddenly that sullen teen has aged ten years. His only thought is how selfish he was and how he needs to find his family. This drives the story forward as Alex ventures out to get to his family, to hug his mom and never let go.

I was impressed with the author’s research for this book. He made the eruption and subsequent events so believable, eerily so! I was completely drawn into the story, Alex’s plight, and the race for survival. BUT the violence — as other reviewers have pointed out — was brutal! By the end of the book, I was numb to it. I just couldn’t handle anymore. I would like to think the best of my fellow human beings, but I think the scary part of this book is that it portrays such an accurate representation of what could happen. People turn on each other again and again. Neighbors, convicts, even the government can’t be relied on. It’s a terrifying thought!

Overall I really enjoyed this book! It kept me on the edge of my seat, not able to turn the pages fast enough. The narrative style writing made it a quick and easy read, allowing me to be immersed completely in Alex’s story. And Darla....Darla is my hero. Just read the book and you will see why. But perhaps for me what made this such a great book is that it isn’t your typical dystopian. This story is about survival and what lengths you may or may not be willing to go to. Fans of dystopian should read this book ASAP, but fair warning it isn’t for the faint of heart.
It's hard to know where to begin to describe Mike Mullin's Ashfall. As a first novel, it's phenomenally good - engaging from the get-go, well-paced, with characters that you quickly come to care about, facing one daunting challenge after another in a world beset by a mass-extinction level of catastrophe.

Alex is an almost-sixteen year old boy living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, with his mother, father and younger sister. When his parents decide to visit his uncle in Illinois, Alex doesn't want to go and opts to stay at home, so his parents and sister go without him. The night, when Alex is home alone, the house is rocked by what feels like either a bomb or a massive earthquake. When Alex manages to crawl out of the wreckage, strange things are happening. The sky is heavily overcast and a thick grey ash begins to fall over everything.

Later, Alex sets out to try to make it to Warren, where his parents and sister are. He gears up with whatever he can find, which includes a pair of skis which he uses to ski over the thickening ash like its snow. One of the strengths of Ashfall is the way Mullin brings the feel of how the world has changed to vivid life, immersing you in what Alex sees and experiences

"I passed under Highway 27. Enough ash had blown under the bridge that I didn't have to take off my skis -- I was able to keep sliding along. A little farther on, Lincoln became West Airport Highway. There were lots of commercial and industrial buildings along the road there, mostly newish metal buildings with flat roofs. Every one of them had been crushed by the ash.
--The road was deserted. I knew the airport was somewhere north of me, but I couldn't see it. On a normal day, I might hear a plane passing overhead or taxiing on the runway. That day, there was no sign of activity. The only noise was occasional thunder.
--After a couple hours, the commercial buildings petered out, so I knew I was in the boonies. The corn was also a big clue. Cedar Falls and Waterloo form an island amid a sea of corn. In early September, it stands higher than my head. Now, though, the ash had flattened it. The only way I could tell I was passing a cornfield was the few hardy stalks still standing upright, coated in gray ash, leaves broken under the weight. Every now and then a metal seed sign protruded a foot or so above the ash bed. I passed an occasional field completely covered in ash, an unremittingly flat, gray expanse. Soybeans, maybe.
--I might have been skiing on the surface of the moon for all the activity there was. I passed four or five farmhouses but saw nothing moving. Everything I normally saw in the Iowa countryside was missing There were no people, no cars, no cows -- not even a solitary turkey vulture circling in the sky.
--The weird, rainless thunder and lightning continued. My eyes had adjusted to the darkness, so every time a series of lightning bolts lit up the landscape, it hurt. The thunder seemed strangely muted. Maybe the falling ash muffled it somehow, or maybe my ears hadn't fully recovered from the first enormous explosions.
--Despite the ash, the road was easy to follow. It was raised, with deep ditches on each side. I skied along the crown of the road, where the centerline was buried under its blanket of ash."

Highly, highly recommended.
First off, I'm over 40 and I bought this with my tweens in mind. After a chapter or two, I realized I would NOT want them to read this book until they were much older. Profanity, innuendo, sexual situations and violence throughout. Hunger Games, nor Divergent, nor Harry Potter are this mature. I'm enjoying the books, but only from a very mature standpoint. Interesting and thought provoking, and action packed, yes. But I will NOT let my tweens be reading these until 16 or so.

Reminds me more of Swan Song by Robert McCammon, just thinking of books I would compare these to off the top of my head.

Edited to add just finished all three books. Honestly couldn't put them down. Mike Mullen is an amazing writer. These are so good, I'm worried that someone will try to make these into movies in the future, and will most likely butcher them horribly. I hope not. Mullen paints the pictures so vividly with his writing, a movie would b unnecessary. I'm STILL saying these are NOT for young teens. Very mature content. Love, love, love these books!! Thank you, Mike Mullen, for writing post apocalyptic books that aren't rehashed versions of others of this type. Alex is an amazing character.