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A reviewer in The Telegraph (UK), noted: "This unsettling small-town noir draws us deep into the dark heart of Ireland, where corruption, desperation, and crime run rife. A gritty look at trust and betrayal where the written law isn't the only one, The Ruin asks who will protect you when the authorities can't-or won't."
On the July/August 2015 issue of Bookmarks, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) with a critical summary saying, "Atkinson's latest novel is "a sprawling, unapologetically ambitious saga that tells the story of postwar Britain through the microcosm of a single family" (New York Times Book review)". [11]
The book fits specifically into the survival horror genre, which is marked by people doing whatever it takes to conquer their environment and stay alive. The novel was released on July 18, 2006 (ISBN 1-4000-4387-5). A film adaptation of the novel was released in the United States and Canada on April 4, 2008. [1]
Mistborn: Secret History is a fantasy novella [n 1] by American author Brandon Sanderson, written as a companion story to the original trilogy of the Mistborn series. [1]The novella follows the story of Kelsier from Mistborn: The Final Empire and concludes with the events of the last book in the original trilogy, The Hero of Ages.
He coined the terms "intimate distance", the narrowest zone; "touch zone"; "no touch zone"; and the widest zone, "personal comfort zone". [5] Fruin was a consultant to the investigation into The Who concert disaster of 1979. [6] He also was an adjunct professor at Polytechnic. [4]
Rot & Ruin is a science fiction novel by American writer Jonathan Maberry, published by Simon & Schuster. It is an example of post- zombie apocalypse setting. Based upon the short story of the same name, the full-length novel was released in the United States September 2010 and in United Kingdom March 2011.
[2] io9 characterized the first volume as "the year's breakout epic war fantasy" [ 3 ] and noted that the trilogy, in a "nice change of pace from most of the epic fantasy landscape", was characterized by a modern mindset, even if it tended to get "sidetracked down rabbit holes" with sub-plots. [ 4 ]
Children of Ruin is a 2019 science fiction novel by British author Adrian Tchaikovsky, the second in his Children of Time series. The novel was well received, winning the 2019 BSFA Award for Best Novel. [1] The book was followed by the third book in the series, Children of Memory, in 2022.