captain's logue

As you might guess from the title of the book and the illustration, the book is about nightfall. What you may not have guessed is that the planet Kalgash has never before witnessed such a phenomenon as nightfall. The reason for such things is Kalgash is continuously filled with light from their six suns.

The book is taken from several different characters’ perspectives. The first perspective is Beenay, an astronomer, who hears about some information being discovered by other scientists which has startling implications. The second is Sheerin, a psychiatrist who is hired to investigate the effects of a ride where customers are moved on a cart through a dark tunnel. The results are disturbing as Sheerin later goes through the tunnel himself and finds that the warnings were true. The ride makes you go insane. The third perspective is Theremon a reporter for the local newspaper and friend to Beenay. He uses his instincts as a journalist to investigate a belief that there is something deeper behind the cultists who think that god will destroy civilization as they know it in a rain of fire.

This exciting book of 339 pages is full of action and mystery which make it well worth the time of reading it. Nightfall is very interesting to read for the reason of it being written from the perspective of a planet without darkness, a concept that probably none of us have ever experienced. What is even more exciting and intriguing about this book is what happens after night comes. The authors deserve extra credit for theorizing about the effect of this occurrence on living beings. In fact let’s give them a little clap for this feat right now. (Insert clapping noise)

Now it’s time for the ratings. The overall score for Nightfall is a definite 5/5 for several reasons. The first is for the perspectives; in my opinion using different people’s views for writing is an ingenious way to tell a story. It allows different parts of the story to be told without a main character being there and secondly it adds another quality that I can only describe at the moment as tomato, tomato. The other reason for its rating is the effects that the author depicts that would happen to a civilization that has only experienced perpetual light when thrown suddenly into darkness. If you would like to buy Nightfall it is available at Amazon.ca,
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and chapters along with Barnes & Noble.