A Mystery with a Post-Apocalyptic Backdrop

2.75 out of 5 stars

There were a few things in Dayfall that I loved and some things that I did not like at all.  Ares has a “no BS” way of writing.  Things happen and they happen for a reason – but we aren’t given a ton of detail on why and even sometimes when.

The biggest thing that drew me to this book was the world.  Sadly, Ares didn’t do a good job building up the world too much.  There was maybe a page or so in the book that explained what caused the 24-hour darkness over certain areas of the US.  I don’t know why he didn’t feel the need to go into more detail around it – but in my head, if I was writing a genre-bending book like Dayfall – I would give each genre a fair shot.  This is a mystery book with a post-apocalyptic backdrop. I really wanted it to be a mystery book that had post-apocalyptic parts to it.

The action scenes were well done and easily some of my favorite parts of this book.  Ares wrote them in a way that you knew exactly what was going on and followed it from beginning to end.  A lot of them had that Bourne-movie feel where you weren’t sure how it was going to end but you knew you had to watch/read each fight.

Overall, Dayfall hits and misses.  It’s kinda a bummer for me.  The book showed such great premise but fell through on execution.

The irony is that Ares could build on how this book ended and have a really interesting Post-Apocalyptic world.  Even if he wanted to keep up the mystery genre – the world is interesting and I want to read more inside it.

Book Description:

Dayfall by Michael David Ares
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
Published by Macmillan Audio on March 13th 2018
Genres: Mystery
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