When I first started reading this book, I kept drawing similarities between the Aliens and Zombies, they are mindless flesh craving beasts. I nearly stopped reading because I kept thinking how did these stupid creatures manage to fly space ships into earth and take over a world? It was really starting to get on my nerves, until the Protagonist asked the same questions. Then I was gripped because obviously this was part of the plot.

I have mentioned before I am not a fan of Sci-fi and I am thinking now after adding two Sci-fi books to my favourite list, I have to change my position on this. I was stuck on the edge of my seat not wanting to put this novel down. It was absolutely amazing, It was not at all predictable, I had no clue what the creatures were, where they came from and how they managed to take over the world.

Now to the plot, Amy is watching T.v on her own when the world is taken over by Aliens, It happens quickly and horribly, most of the human race is wiped out in hours. Lucky for Amy her father is an eco warrior who insisted on a garden and solar panels and her mother was a government worker that insisted on an electric fence to keep her family safe.

While the world ends Amy crawls up in her room and reads trying to escape her new world, behind the safety of her electric fence. Which I could relate to, since I probably would do the same thing.

After a while her food starts to run out and Amy needs to leave the sanctuary of her house and start scavenging, she learns quickly that the creatures have hyper sensitive hearing and will stop at nothing to gain fresh meat as soon as they hear you. On one trip she runs into a little girl who is bleeding and scared she is only about three years old, Amy takes her home and calls her baby.

Three years later, Amy and Baby are still battling to survive in the After, (The story is split up into three parts, the Before, The After (surviving with the creatures) and the now (living in the safety of the compound).) They have not spoken in three years and they live a life of silence.

When Things start to get worse after a marauding Gang take over the safety of their house, Amy and Baby are forced to leave, when they are captured by a military ship and sent to a survivor compound, but is it really safer than in the After?.

I was drawn to this book by Its cover, It looked Creepy and just the type of dystopian I love. Harpercollins Australia were kind enough to send me a copy for review. In the After really makes you think, about how children can survive on their own in terrible conditions, how Humanity as a whole would react in such destruction, (will the survivors stick together to try to make the most out of life, or will they turn on each other and try to take what they can?) This is what I love about dystopias, how people will react at the end of the world and what will happen after?

This was a brilliant novel by Demitria Lunetta and I cannot wait to read what she writes next. If you loved across the universe, this book is for you.