Dark Advent by Brian Hodge6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Hodge still wrote in this manner in Nightlife a couple years later (the second title from the impressive Dell/Abyss line), but that novel is much more original and engaging. Hodge himself noted these "rampant immaturities" in a recent blog post about an upcoming updated reprint. Guilelessness is simply not to my taste at all (perhaps if I'd read it when I was a teenager). Hodge's tone is eager and earnest tinged with an adolescent cynicism. Dark Advent is not overly bad it's actually overly nice, if that makes any sense. ![]() ![]() The story moves along all right as Hodge introduces his large cast of survivors, but by the halfway mark I just couldn't take it anymore and really skimmed over the rest. You got your germ "warfare" gone wrong, the inadvertent regular-guy heroes and opportunistic bad guys, and large-scale horror setpieces as a flawed and violent humanity struggles to rebuild after the unthinkable happens. Cursed-or blessed-with a demonic kids-in-peril stepback cover, the post-apocalyptic horror novel Dark Advent from Pinnacle Books is a passably okay work, Brian Hodge's minor-league version of The Stand (1978), Alas, Babylon (1959), or Swan Song (1987). ![]()
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