{"id":773,"date":"2012-07-06T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=773"},"modified":"2012-07-01T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T01:33:14","slug":"after-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/after-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cover<\/a>Summers, Robin. After the Fall. Bold Strokes Books, 2011. Paperback. 272p. $16.95. 978-1-60282-529-1.<\/a><\/p>\n

Taylor Stone has faced a harsh journey since a plague wiped out the majority of the world\u2019s population. She relies on herself and a baseball bat to deal with any obstacles in her way as she tries to find her lost family. Along the way she encounters a farm full of survivors attempting to create some semblance of a normal life. Among them is Kate,\u00a0who Taylor finds herself undeniably attracted to despite her desire not to get attached to anyone in\u00a0this new world. Soon, Taylor is forced to deal with a tragic past and an uncertain future.<\/p>\n

After the Fall is a fast-paced, character-driven woman\u2019s life story set in a post-apocalyptic setting. Like many of its post-apocalyptic predecessors, it showcases humans as the worst villains in a world devoid of rules. The novel\u2019s characters are clearly defined as either good or evil, with many of the villains being malicious misogynists. The romance is formulaic but no less compelling\u00a0when Kate and Taylor finally stop squabbling and admit to their obvious feelings for one another.<\/p>\n

In addition to Taylor\u2019s first-person narration, a young man named Duncan also narrates portions of the story in order for the reader to see an outside perspective of Taylor\u2019s journey. The book is moody and bleak, especially in moments when the truth of Taylor\u2019s hardships following the beginning of the apocalypse emerges. Yet the story attempts to be inspirational as Taylor overcomes her past and learns to accept the present.<\/p>\n

After the Fall is unique in its placing a lesbian romance story in a post-apocalyptic setting. Unfortunately it suffers from a dragging pace and a clich\u00e9d, predictable plot that will not satisfy readers beyond the most obsessive fans of melodrama and lesbian romance. Many of the secondary characters are too onedimensional to create much interest, and Taylor\u2019s disjointed narration is difficult to follow at times. Recommended only for public libraries with an extremely high demand for lesbian romance and\/or lesbian women\u2019s life stories.<\/p>\n

Reviewer: Tracy Gossage<\/strong>
\nMLIS Student
\nDominican University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summers, Robin. After the Fall. Bold Strokes Books, 2011. Paperback. 272p. $16.95. 978-1-60282-529-1. Taylor Stone has faced a harsh journey since a plague wiped out the majority of the world\u2019s population. She relies on herself and a baseball bat to deal with any obstacles in her way as she tries to find her lost family. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}