Elegy Beach: A Book of the Change, (Paperback)

from DavidLErickson

This was a novel well worth reading. The characters were well drawn and unique, the story line like nothing I've read before, fraught with human frailities and strength, loss and love, and the scenes devastating in light of the harshness of this alternate reality. I felt Steven could have shorten...

from cissa

It was a page-turner, and the world was better thought-out and/or described than it was in "Ariel". There were some authorial mannerisms, though, that started annoying me early on and got increasingly irritating as they went on and on and on. The worst was the lack of question marks after most qu...

from thejohnowen

A thoroughly thought-out postapocalyptic novel. Although the writing and plotting are both solid enough, the best part is watching the author retroactively justify decisions made by his twentysomething-year-old self. Elegy Beach is a sequel of sorts to his first novel, Ariel, in which some Event ...

from devilwrites

The premise: it's been thirty years since the Change, when the laws humanity held dear disappeared and new laws took their place, laws that can only be described as magic. Fred and his best friend Yan don't understand the nostalgia their parents feel for the world that was, and they merely want t...

from SomewhatBent

Elegy Beach Steven R. Boyett Ace Hardcover (2009), First Edition Hardcover, 384 pages **Want Spoilers??** None here today. Nearly 30 years after the release of Ariel, the "never say never" sequel, Elegy Beach, was released. Set in contemporary time - 30 years after The Change - it chronicles the ...