Adam's Ark

This story is set in England, a decade after the Coronavirus had hit the world. This story is about another disaster brought on by climate change, that is causing part of the country to be inundated by heavy rain and flooding waters, driving people out of their towns to find higher ground, if they are lucky enough to escape.
Adam and his family live in a beautiful setting on top of a large hill, overlooking the town and they are able to see what is happening down below, as boats and helicopters are trying to rescue people.
Adam decides to help with the rescue, where he finds a young girl alone in a house and takes her back up to his farm and family, where they already have John his neighbor and his wife staying with them.
Adam writes on his blog as a joke about building an ark, which leads to many different inquiries and crazy scenarios.
Pretty soon they have more and more people show up needing a place to stay. Food starts to become scares as well as places to put all of the people. Tensions are high, but it is the new reality they have to live with.
There are a lot of twist and turns to this story full of complex characters and interesting scenarios, so I will leave it up to you, the reader to discover what happens, as I do not like to give away too much.
It was a good read with an interesting story line and great characters.

Haunting Survival Story
This is a very good story of survival. It is haunting, but not in a bad way. The story is not grisly in any way, nor will it cause nightmares. However, it is very realistic. Anyone who has been involved in a flood or a prolonged rainy season can identify with this story. Imagine an idyllic farm setting with a small 2 bedroom and 1 bathroom house that is lived in by a couple and their 2 teenage sons. Now imagine it housing an additional 90 city dwellers who do nothing but complain. Add to that little food, wet firewood, no clean water, and so on. Haunting, isn't it? I received this ARC book for free from Net Galley and this is my honest review.

What do we owe to others? How do we salvage a functional society when a house full of strangers pushes you to impossible decisions? Adam's Ark posits a future where climate change tightens its grip and weather patterns become more erratic, from extreme heat to long periods of monsoon-like rainfall. Large parts of the world are inundated and in a flood of apocalyptic proportions anywhere on high ground becomes a refuge from the rising water. With the country effectively under martial law architect Adam Woolton’s precious home is besieged by desperate people from all over the region deposited in open country from the air to fend for themselves. They cannot be "unseen". A very readable and thought provoking short volume, Adam's Ark does not rely on violence and horror and thereby makes his story accessible to a wider audience.

A nightmare story of what could happen if we let global warming and sea levels carry on rising. It's set in 2030 - 10 years after the Covid-19 pandemic really messed up the world. Covid also took peoples' thoughts off global warming and gave goverments a break in actually doing anything about it rather than just talking about it. Sea levels are rising, as much rain as used to fall in a year is falling every few days in England. The only people on dry ground are standing on the top of hills in the highest parts of the country. Most of Sourthern England is already flooded. One man and his family are taking flooded out people into their home - and no-one is comfortable with it. There are no hospitals available, no doctors, no police - nothing. What to do when the food runs scarce and the water keeps on rising.

I can't say I loved it - but I do recommend it. I think it's closer to reality than a Zombie apocalypse.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher I read a free advance review copy of the book. This review is voluntary, honest and my own opinion.

And now I'm going to read it again.

Pretty timely in 2020. It's a pretty compelling and well-written tale that includes interesting characters in challenging situations. I like the author's imagination. A fairly plausible story for those that like dystopian stories.

Thanks very much for the review copy!!

Set in our near future, the rain has started to fall, it is heavy and relentless, and it isn’t stopping. The water level is rising, the rivers meet up with the sea, entire communities are under water and still it doesn’t show any sign of stopping.

Adam and his family moved to their house to escape the rat race and to embrace the country lifestyle, from their house upon a hilltop they are horrified by the extent of the flooding. They find themselves welcoming bedraggled near drowned people who have lost everything however they soon find out that in times of trouble not everyone shows their best side.

With no one in charge Adam and his neighbours are left to try and maintain some normalcy but some of their “guests” don’t appreciate rationing and with air drops in short supply tempers of course rise. To add to Adam’s problems he has also taken in to his house a young girl who was at home alone. A nationwide appeal finds her mother but it also uncovers something more sinister, something that interests the military and Adam finds himself worrying about more than just the flooding.

This was a good read, its set ten years in to the future and of course floods of immense scale are something that could happen at any time. As we have seen with COVID times of disaster and concern bring out the best and worst of people and this is definitely shown in the book. The flooding is truly believable and the description of the detritus was chilling.

I could have happily continued to read about the flooding but the side story regarding the young girl and her mysterious daughter was a nice segue.

This was definitely a close to the bone read and enjoyable read.

Thanks to Net Galley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

A very timely story that is written in a style that keeps the reader in the tale. Very well written, a jolly good read

I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book, this book really makes you think about society today I find it a must read.