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I just finished Morgan Dawn and Justine Bennett's The Long Way Home.
The tag line on their novel covers reads "Sometimes the only way to survive is to surrender." The novel explores this theme, and proves its veracity, in a manner that is grim and hopeless. What is left at the end is not hope but determination and will when there is little, if anything, to live for but each other.
Haunting and eloquent, this novel is a story of a possible future, more than of an alternate reality. It hurts. It is not uplifting. It does not have a happy ending. But it is a realistic portrayal of life after the end of the world.
June 27 2004, 22:47:30 UTC 7 years ago
It's so very different from all other DS stories--it stnads out for that very reason (post-apocalyptic DS slash). It could be gimmicky with this premise, but it isn't. I didn't like every aspect/character, but the overall story was powerful and I would gladly rec it to anyone who reads darkfic.