There were always people sleeping, and always people awake. In the permanent darkness of the base it was impossible to tell the difference between day and night anymore. Was that two in the afternoon or morning? She thought morning, but she wasn't sure. Straight To You deserves to be ranked alongside such classics as The Stand and Swan Song.Emma Mitchell looked at her watch. Even if you have read the original version this updated version brings more than enough to the table to warrant you reading it. At it's heart this is a love story, and it is this angle that separates it from the the majority of end of the world novels. Straight To You, was already an accomplished novel, and this rewrite lifts it to a masterful addition to apocalyptic fiction, a deeply disturbing look at the collapse of society and one man's struggle to spend the end of days with the love of his life. Just as the narrative appears to be getting to dark and oppressive Mody injects just the right amount of comic relief. I loved the way in which Steven and Roy interacted with each other. Roy's main role in this story is to add a small level of humour to this bleakest of stories. Moody has also beefed up the number of supporting characters, chief of these is Steven's partner in his race across the country Roy. This is one of those rare books where the apocalyptic horrors and terrors are balanced out by an extremely heart wrenching story that keeps the reader grounded in the feelings of two people while all round them the world collapses. By moving their relationship on and introducing added emotional weight of a miscarriage, lifts the readers emotion investment in the narrative and more importantly the characters to a much higher level.

This is an inspired move by Moody, in the original novel it was kind of hard to believe that our protagonist would be so emotionally invested in a woman who he has just met.

In the original version, the main emotional hook of the novel came from the relationship between Steven and his partner, this is still the case her but David Moody has shifted the relationship from being a newly fledged romance to one where Stephen and Samantha are married and coming to terms with the miscarriage of their child. Steven is desperate to reunite with his wife, determined to see the end of the world with the love of his life, he must traverse a country that is crumbling in savagery to be reunited with her. In Straight to You the sun is dying causing the temperature of the world to dramatically heat up, no one knows how long we have left t could be months it could only be a matter of hours.

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