![]() ![]() What it offers is a more realistic approach, humanistic in the same way as The Stand, but unique. It’s not particularly supernatural, not at all, so don’t approach it waiting for a Randall Flagg or Mother Abigail to show up. Rest assured that both have a lot to offer, different and similar things, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mister Touch stands on its own. It’s easy to make comparisons between Mister Touch and The Stand by Stephen King. There is darkness to be found here and villains, because there is no such thing as a good story without conflict, but there’s a spirit of hope that suffuses this book and glows from it all the same. Yet this book is all about people finding where they belong, surviving against the odds, moving forward and refusing to inhabit the past, and overcoming adversity. Most of them didn’t really have much to offer the world before a virus destroyed it, much less after. ![]() Most of the survivors are now disabled in some way. The world is not in good shape, for sure. This is probably the most hopeful apocalypse you’ll ever have the good fortune to read. Their leader, Mister Touch, wants them to make a journey from New York to Arizona, but with a laundry list of disabilities and trauma, can they hope to make it? The Skulls, full of crazy nicknames and with strict rules about never speaking of the past. ![]() Those that are left range between levels of blindness and being unable to breathe, but one group in particular has banded together with the intention of surviving. A virus has hit the world and greatly diminished its population. ![]()
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