She leaves it up to the reader to fill in the gaps. As you might expect in a short story, the ending is a cliff-hanger. I’ll admit that I wasn’t sure what to think when I finished Ark. It sounds like that would make for a slow moving story, but I found just the opposite. It is focused on characters, exploring their backgrounds and motivations. The story focuses on one of the scientists, Samantha, and the decisions she must make in the final days before her group is schedule to leave.Īrk isn’t a thrill-a-minute, action-packed story. A small group of scientists stays behind to catalog as many possible plant species before they are evacuated. Since the asteroid is expected to cause cataclysmic damage, humans are evacuated from Earth to the nearest habitable planet. In Ark, Roth explores an end of the world scenario in which a massive asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. If the author sounds familiar, she wrote the Divergent series of books that was made into a series of movies starting back in 2014. I’ve read four of the six stories, and recently finished the 5th – Ark by Veronica Roth. So in the breaks between books on my reading list, I’ve been working through the short stories in the Amazon Forward series. I’ve also found it a great way to explore new authors to get a feel for their writing style. It’s impressive when an author tells a captivating story with well-developed characters in a condensed number of pages.
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