This "End of Days" tale is more fiction with science in it than classic science fiction. The focus is on the characters and the different ways in which they are broken and on the nature and impact of belief on how we see ourselves and others. Nevertheless, there is still a good end-of-the-world-as...
The Rapture Liz JensenThis "End of Days" tale is more fiction with science in it than classic science fiction. The focus is on the characters and the different ways in which they are broken and on the nature and impact of belief on how we see ourselves and others.Nevertheless, there is still a good ...
I was watching some dumb program about people who are preparing for doomsday. They are stock piling food and weapons and learning now to create their own power sources and generally being really weird with it. I thought wow, these people are wasting their lives preparing for something that's not all...
The Rapture By Liz Jensen Genre: Thriller, dystopian, Adult Format: Paperback, 341 pages Published June 7th 2010 by Bloomsbury It is a June unlike any other before, with temperatures soaring to asphyxiating heights. All across the world, freak weather patterns—and the life-shattering ...
For this review and more check out my blog Often I find that books which tread a thin line between one thing and another generally fail. The Rapture (which treads many thin lines) does not. There is a lot going on in this book, a lot of ‘heavy’, a lot of theory vs. belief. On the surface this boo...
I wavered between two and three stars. It was slightly more than just okay, but I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to say I liked it. The plot sounded fascinating - a girl in a psychiatric ward finds herself able to predict natural catastrophes. I'm not sure I entirely agreed with the execution of i...
Fantastic book. First half is fascinating and engaging. Then about half-way through the pace just takes off and doesn't let up until the end.I could see the movie in my head as I read and it's a huge big-budget block-buster.
Set in a recognisable near-future world on the brink of eco-catastrophe, The Rapture is the story of Bethany, a teenager locked up in a secure psychiatric establishment for murdering her mother with a screwdriver, who when she is given electric shock treatment, has visions that enable her to correct...
Art therapist Gabrielle Fox is facing her toughest client yet. Sixteen-year-old Bethany Krall may have murdered her mother, but there's something stranger in her brain - the seeming ability to predict natural disasters.Literary more than any other genre, this was at first a difficult read. The style...
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