Literally, damn well every other damned sentence, dammit! This was really off-putting and confusing. This dreadful, planet-wide storm system, which could last for weeks or even months and usher in a new ice age, just suddenly got better? In the space of a couple of days? Really? I know it's not really Strieber's fault, but what a way to quick-finish a story.Ī bizarre negative that I found, was how early chapters had either 'damn', 'damned', damn well' or 'dammit' in every other sentence. In my opinion, the end came quite suddenly and inexplicably. Strieber's descriptive sections give you a really good sense of how this sudden whiteout would look and feel. The story progressed in a plausible and logical manner and the excitement ramped up nicely - the whole book was pretty exciting, but, to be fair, the second half was genuinely thrilling. Strieber's dialogue was pretty enjoyable, despite the fact that most of the incidental characters sounded the same. I get that the impact of this sudden ice age needs to be seen and it needs to be powerful, but for such a short book there are just way too many throwaway characters. Characters were introduced, just to be killed by the cold on the next page. All of the other characters seemed to blend into each other - no characterisation, no unique voices. Strieber does his best to make it all sound as logical and plausible as possible and, given the screenplay he has to work with, he does a fairly good job.Ĭharacter-wise, I liked Jack Hall, and Dylan and his gang, and that's about all. So while it is technically sci-fi, that term is used in its loosest form. There is very little basis in any kind of scientific fact and the global climatic changes that occur in this book take place impossibly fast, but that's ok - it's a novel version of a blockbuster movie. It goes without saying that the actual science of this sudden mini ice age is all a load of old nonsense. It's a very moreish book - you want to see what happens next, or catch up with your favoured characters, and it was, in all fairness, a swift and pretty thrilling book. Strieber writes in brief scenes, focussing on quite a large cast (especially for a book that's less than 250 pages long) and these short, and excitingly written, sequences do keep you turning the pages. It is a short and reasonably punchy telling of the film's story. ![]() This is a novelisation of the 2004 movie, based on the movie's screenplay, and with that in mind, this review is more a review of Strieber's telling of the story, as opposed to a review of the actual story itself. ![]() Now a Major Motion Picture from Twentieth Century Foxģ / 5 for 'The Day After Tomorrow' by Whitley Strieber Now he must not only find a way to reverse the rampant ecological destruction that is transforming the world into a frigid wasteland, but also rescue his rebellious son, who is one of the millions trapped in the icy depths of a frozen New York City. A stunned humanity realizes that a second ice age is about to engulf the earth.Ĭlimatologist Jack Hall tried to warn people of the approaching peril-but it may already be too late for any hope of survival. The storms grow until they form a bizarre and gigantic blizzard unlike anything ever seen before. Massive ice melt stuns the world as open ocean appears at the pole for the first time in living memory.ĭeep under the Atlantic Ocean, currents crucial to life react, dropping south-and suddenly, storms of unprecedented ferocity start exploding over the arctic as cold air returns, slamming into the heat with cataclysmic results. ![]() THE BEGINNING OF THE END: It's a fiercely hot summer, so hot that the north pole's heat record is broken by fifty degrees.
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