What if you woke up one morning expecting the luminous sun to blind you, but instead the beautiful blue sky becomes inky and depressing because gray ash covers it like a blanket? You hear ringing in your ears and feel the coldness hugging you everywhere. Subsequently, you remember that the Yellowstone volcano has erupted creating an enduring winter and causing people into dilemmas in order to meet their necessities to survive. One of the people who have to struggle in this unfortunate event is a teenager named Alex Halprin in the novel Ashfall written by Mike Mullin. One friday evening, Alex was home alone playing video games like any typical teenager as his parents and younger sister went to visit his uncle and his family. When the volcano erupts, Alex is forced to temporarily live with his neighbors. At Alex’s stay with his neighbors’, he decides to go on a quest to find his family. This book is apocalyptic, abrupt, and will keep you sitting on the edge of your seat! …show more content…
Mullin might not have written many books that were published, yet he won countless awards for Ashfall and the rest of the trilogy. The first book of the Ashfall trilogy was published in 2011. The second and third books are called Ashen Winter and Sunrise, which were published in 2012 and 2013. Readers were quite devastated and heartbroken when they finished the last page of the third book, knowing that they finished the trilogy. Then… BAM! Mike Mullin strikes again! Recently, Mike Mullin revealed that in 2018 he will be releasing the fourth book. This may seem long, but once you read Ashfall, you will realize it will be worth the