Aftertime--Sophie Littlefield
Aftertime is an interesting, powerful, and confusing book. It is published by Luna Press which is a division of Harlequin Romances and this occasionally shows, though not to the detriment of the work overall. Aftertime is an apocalypse-quasi-zombie novel. Note, I have deliberately avoided saying a Zombie Apocalypse novel because in fact, that is the innovation Ms. Littlefield has introduced. The plague of horrific zombie-like creatures is a result of the actions that bring about the apocalypse in the novel. To say more would be to detract from some of the more interesting revelations along the way. Ms. Littlefield has served up several variations on the typical zombie novel. The creatures in this book, called beaters, are, in fact, not dead. They are victims of a fever induced by. . . well, that would be telling. They retain human characteristics but have acquired a taste for human flesh. Because of the effects of the fever, they are largely ...