Moody has also beefed up the number of supporting characters, chief of these is Steven's partner in his race across the country Roy. This is one of those rare books where the apocalyptic horrors and terrors are balanced out by an extremely heart wrenching story that keeps the reader grounded in the feelings of two people while all round them the world collapses. By moving their relationship on and introducing added emotional weight of a miscarriage, lifts the readers emotion investment in the narrative and more importantly the characters to a much higher level. This is an inspired move by Moody, in the original novel it was kind of hard to believe that our protagonist would be so emotionally invested in a woman who he has just met. In the original version, the main emotional hook of the novel came from the relationship between Steven and his partner, this is still the case her but David Moody has shifted the relationship from being a newly fledged romance to one where Stephen and Samantha are married and coming to terms with the miscarriage of their child. Steven is desperate to reunite with his wife, determined to see the end of the world with the love of his life, he must traverse a country that is crumbling in savagery to be reunited with her. In Straight to You the sun is dying causing the temperature of the world to dramatically heat up, no one knows how long we have left t could be months it could only be a matter of hours.
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