![]() ![]() ![]() I also felt the story developed an underlying preachy feel to it, towards the end of the book, which didn’t really work for me. Having said that, although I enjoyed the book, it isn’t one that I would want to read over and over again. ![]() I rarely read science fiction, but I still enjoyed The Taking. The world has gone to hell overnight and it is up to Molly and Neil to try and figure out how to survive, what has caused this calamity and what-if anything-can be done about it. Not to mention the occasional walking, talking dead person. They encounter unusual animal and plant life. It’s not just the weather that has gone to pot though, as Molly and Neil soon discover. The rain may be strange, but even stranger weather conditions await an unsuspecting world: blue snow, purple fog and, huge waterspouts that suck up seawater at a rate of 200,000 gallons a minute. Molly is still pondering on this when she sees low, sinuous shapes moving under the window. At 2 am Molly gets up and goes downstairs planning to do some work on her new novel, but when she looks out of the window and notices the strange quality of the rain she stands a while and tries to figure out the reason behind the downpour’s luminosity. Molly’s husband, Neil, has no such worries he’s sound asleep. Molly Sloan lies restless in her bed and cannot sleep. It is sudden, it falls hard, and it is luminescent. The Taking is not so much a horror novel as a cross-genre piece that melds horror and sci-fi. ![]()
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