This book in the series comes after the eruption has ended and the world is suffering the after-effects, with people trying to carry on with the lives they had been living prior to the disaster. People are learning to adapt to colder weather, power plants having problems etc, but the problem is that this makes the book, to a very large extent, simply an account of normal people's lives in what seem to be very similar, if colder and with less reliable power supplies, circumstances as before.

The book does give hints to the slow collapse occurring by describing such things as how bus services are being reduced and machinery is not being repaired reliably and so on but this feels so similar to a description of much of current modern life that it fails, for me at least, to engage the imagination.

SUPERVOLCANO THINGS FALL APART gives the impression of being just filler between the other two books with none of the sense of being in an alternate world I had hoped for from this very talented author.

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