'Daimones' by Massimo Marino is an apocalypse book with a difference The ending brings some closure about the catastrophe to this family, but also lays a heavy burden and responsibility on Dan, and opens up the novel to the sequel in the trilogy.ĥ stars - NYT international best seller Author Jennifer Blakeĥ-star Reviewed by Christopher Dagg for Readers Favorite We are led to feel the disbelief, the anguish, the grief, the frantic search for other survivors through his eyes and the 1st person narration.įinally, when Dan and his family do find other survivors.they experience the absolute terror of first contact. Confusion, sadness, and fear start to mix into the main characters mind, Dan Amenta. The exploration of human relationships and their importance, of personalities and memories, are at the heart of the tale. 'Daimones' explores moral and emotional issues as well as the mechanics of everyday survival for this family: all evidences point for them to be the only people left alive on Earth. The Apocalypse has arrived, but why and how remains unknown in a frustrating and fearful reality for the family around which the story evolves.

The novel puts a few survivors in a world having experienced a planetary culling of the human race but there is no immediate cause to be pointed at for the survivors. PA novels are often about cataclysmic events, survivors fending off dangers at every page, zombie attacks, aliens destroying everything for inscrutable reasons, or as a fulfillment of the latest religious prophecies. 'Even with the best of intentions, cruelty is just around the corner.' Planet Earth is in the hands of an older power, one Dan never envisioned and dares not disobey. Memories of childhood hallucinations strike him with sledgehammer force, bringing him face-to-face with a secret millions of years old. Then supernatural experiences reported by other survivors force Dan to seek explanations from his own past. Her presence - a young, sexy, disruptive girl - adds questions about what is moral and ethical in this new reality. They are not.Efforts to survive and make contact with others reveal disturbing truths about the human extermination.

He begins to fear they are the only three people left alive on Earth. Winner of PRG 2012 Reviewers Choice Awards in Sci-Fi.ĭan Amenta wakes up one morning to discover the world has changed.the Apocalypse has arrived.ĭeath, destruction, and disaster are spreading around the globe. Hall of Fame in Science Fiction 2013 - Quality Reads UK Book Club

Daimones by Massimo Marino