So, I've been super inactive on my blog, largely because I was introduced to Goodreads, which basically seems to do what I was envisaging, but on a much wider scale. I'm going to try and post my latest review from that site on to here and see what happens!

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was very pleasantly surprised by this book having rescued it from my Dad's charity shop pile. Before I started it, I had little idea of what it was about (other than the end of the world).

That's not strictly true though, the world is pretty much fine, civilisation, however is not.

What struck me about this is how realistic the reactions of all the characters and people in general were. The authors really managed to capture human behaviour and I think they're probably not far wrong in the way most people would react to the possibility that a comet could hit the planet.

There is a lot of variety to the characters you're introduced to and in the aftermath of the Hammerfall, there are some quite shocking scenes.

I also liked that fact that, right to the end, I was kept guessing about what the outcome would be. I never felt certain of knowing anything and there were times where I verged on being scared, particularly in the lead up to the meteor strike.

So, all in all a good read - although I had to resist the urge to repeatedly sing Hammer to Fall by Queen every time I picked up the book.

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