Reaper – Jon Grahame PART 1

Reaper – Jon Grahame

A dream of hope to some . . . a nightmare to others

This is what caught my attention, it walked passed the table it was sat on at the Bradford Waterstones. I looked bleak and dark compared the rest that was on the table. It was the darkest coloured cover there was, and it just attracted me. While some are busy with colour and the font of the title, this was sleek and simple. It told me everything I needed to know, it told me I needed to read it, and I did. Part of me will never recover from the pain these characters have to go through to survive, but it was a battle I wanted to share with them. I wanted to take that pain from them so they could live in some sort of peace. But in a post-apocalyptic thriller, I knew it wouldn’t get any better from the beginning, only worse. And it didn't disappointed.

Reaper, Jim Reaper, to be precise, was a man of very little when we meet him at the start. He prays for the death of the man who attacked his daughter, and I prayed for it too. He did as he set out and it landed him in jail in the local police station where he used to work. His former colleague and best friend locked him up and saw that he was looked after. Even though he understands the reasons, the crime still had consequences.

But little did Reaper know he was about to be spared from his fate of death, a fate he wished upon himself. God, if people believe, spared him. He had bigger things to deal with and people to save. A superflu wipes out nearly 98% of the population and we are about to see the dregs of the population come to life in a world where there is no government to keep them inline. He is freed from the box and set free in a world he could hardly recognise anymore.

This is the first book of three, sometimes we accept that the first is going to sublime against the second and third, but this series did not disappoint throughout all books. It didn’t stop from giving action, pain, and death. It didn’t stop from giving new character to love and hate, and places we knew. It is based in the whole of England, spanning from Leeds to Scotland, down to London and back up to York.

If you read reviews about this and they say it’s dark, brutal and action-packed, do not think it is any less than outstanding. It is fantastic and every post-apocalyptic lover needs to read this series. I managed to get through the whole of the first book in just two weeks when normally, reading between University and working something this size would take about a month or so. At every spare moment I would read a few pages, which then led to a chapter, and then two chapters. I truly did not want to put it down.

The other two books will follow after this one over the next few days. If you are in two minds about reading this book, then stop right there. Go to Amazon, go to Waterstones, and buy it. Cancel all your plans for the next few days and read this from cover to cover because you will love it. I promise you.

And if you don’t, then please come back to me and tell me why I would love to know.

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