The focus isn’t on the daily business of surviving, with most characters firmly fixated on the future. However, A utumn: Aftermath is different. Each consecutive novel shows the new survivors joining forces with the people introduced in the preceding volume, so it wasn’t surprising when old characters appeared on the scene. They struggle to survive, fight some zombies, and the scene fades to black. The first few books in the Autumn series are formulaic. All hell breaks loose: Jackson wants to try to build a better future, while Jas believes that sticking together and remaining in the castle is the only sensible option. This is further exacerbated by the appearance of faces familiar to the reader, who offer the survivors the chance of a fresh start. The arrival of new people causes a power struggle to erupt between the two leaders, Jas and Jackson, raising tensions and causing infighting. The group are living in something resembling harmony until they rescue survivors from a nearby hotel. Primarily set in Cheetham Castle, Autumn: Aftermath focuses on the psychological effects of being trapped with a small number of people in an enclosed space. Moody finishes the story in an efficient way, stopping anyone from wondering whether there could be a sixth book in the series (even with the completely unnecessary epilogue tacked at to the end). Beginning 26 days after the infection and concluding with an epilogue set two years later, it spans a remarkable length of time. But it was the second definition that struck me: a new growth of grass following mowing or ploughing.’Īutumn: Aftermath is the fifth and final book in David Moody’s Autumn series. The first was obvious, the one that everybody knows: something that follows after a disastrous or unfortunate event, like the aftermath of a war. This would have been a majorly disorienting read if I wasn’t already familiar with the events of the previous books (especially Autumn: Purification, which is the catalyst for most of the events contained within). Survivors from the earlier novels appear and their backgrounds are hardly explored.
However, you must read the first three books in the Autumn series before you give Autumn: Aftermath a try.
A new group was introduced in the fourth installment, but they don’t appear until a few chapters into this book and their origin story is thoroughly recapped.
It doesn’t seem as though I missed anything, though. I didn’t realise I’d skipped the fourth book in the Autumn series – Autumn: Disintegration – until I was over halfway through Autumn: Aftermath.
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