#bookreview FINAL DAYS

NAME: FINAL DAYS

AUTHOR: GARY GIBSON

GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

NO OF PAGES: 371

PUBLISHED DATE: AUGUST 5 2011

ISBN:0230748775

MY RATING: 2.5 OUT OF 5



SYNOPSIS:

          In 2235, interstellar travel is achieved by wormhole technology.human colonies have been established at distant galaxies, by that time a new wormhole allows the to time travel. from which they found the founder network and video sequence of upcoming apocalypse in a form of alien growths.

           While separatists groups were rioting over earth's political dominance over their colonies, with less than a week for global destruction, saul finds himself in the middle of ASI conspiracy, now it's his turn to save humanity.

FINAL DAYS:
            
            The story revolves around four main character,

            Saul, an ASI agent who is on an undercover operation which he screwed up pretty hard, to compensate that he assigned with another operation, where he learns about the conspiracy, later he received a call from his friend Olivia insisting him to find her missing husband jeff.

            Jeff  was an ASI agent who went hiding in the woods, he met dan, dan and jeff worked together in site 17 mission, dan told him that ASI is killing everyone who involved in site 17 mission.so they attempted to escape but unfortunately, dan was killed. jeff met Mitchell who he worked with on site 17.

          Mitchell was rescued from the future by ASI agents. he was tortured and interrogated for a week, at a certain point he escaped and met jeff, together the planned to put the present day Mitchell in a cryo lab on the moon.

         On middle of all these, there was these pacific growths, giant flower-like creatures growing from earth crust which leads to earth annihilation, all these characters joins in a zigzag way towards the end.

        It's a very complex plot with subplots that converge to give a big story, too many one directional characters, cliche's,  the story wasn't clear enough for general audience, for a fast paced script, it lags on most places, the writer has given a correct explanation for what caused the growths or about founders and their network, certain points where contrasting each other, one place it argues about predetermined future nothing can be done to save the world and in the finale it's about changing the future.

       This book barely stays in mid-way between an awesome sci-fi and boring ambiguous mess.

OVERALL - REVIEW:
     
       This is a book for mainstream sci-fi lovers, you have wormholes, time travel, mutated villain, apocalypse and finale take place on the moon what else do you need.

       But for the genral public, this book needs to be read carefully otherwise, you will end up annoyed, not for everyone but surely worth a shot.

                                                                                                               ---SIDHARTH