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Book Blog: The Cleansing by Sam Kates
Apr. 13th, 2016 01:25 pmThis is a free ebook, and readable enough for me to get through all of it. I was attracted by the theme of the pandemic wiping out most of humanity. What can I say? This would be a much nicer planet with fewer humans.
There’s the theme of the few who survive, which is fairly cliched. There is also the story line of the aliens who travelled here millenia ago as an advance guard for their species. They’re doing all this; the plague and the clean up – hence the name – to prepare Earth for their people. The survivors are going to be collared and tamed as “drones” to do the scut work.
There was rather too much telling instead of showing, in the form of one of the aliens’ memories and thoughts. She’s starting to have second thoughts about genocide. Another alien has gone completely rogue and is protecting his own small group of humans. The rest of them are in hunt down and destroy mode.
I see there are more books in the series, and these you have to pay for. I’m not sure that this book was enough of a hook for me to bother, although it was well written for a self-published work.
There’s the theme of the few who survive, which is fairly cliched. There is also the story line of the aliens who travelled here millenia ago as an advance guard for their species. They’re doing all this; the plague and the clean up – hence the name – to prepare Earth for their people. The survivors are going to be collared and tamed as “drones” to do the scut work.
There was rather too much telling instead of showing, in the form of one of the aliens’ memories and thoughts. She’s starting to have second thoughts about genocide. Another alien has gone completely rogue and is protecting his own small group of humans. The rest of them are in hunt down and destroy mode.
I see there are more books in the series, and these you have to pay for. I’m not sure that this book was enough of a hook for me to bother, although it was well written for a self-published work.