AFTER BY PADRAIG KENNY
Paperback published by Walker Books 6th March 2025
ISBN 9781529517804
Life is different in the after. With few people and no technology. Earth is a green but empty planet. Everyone is out to survive, and Jen and Father are a world of two. When they come across a community, Jen is tempted by a different look. But while she could stay, Father cannot: he’s no ordinary man, but a human-appearing A1 – and a secret that must be kept.
MY REVIEW
After is my second well loved book from author Padraig Kenny. The first book I read and totally loved was Stitch, a gothic adventure from Walker books , that is a completely different novel to After that is a sci fiction novel. I loved this new novel, about a post apocalyptic with a flair of difference. Without a past, there is only the After. Life is different in the After. How frightening, their world ended slowly then all at once. I adored Jen, because she love reading and see pictures inside a book, in what the world looked liked after the collapse of civilisation . Jen loves being told stories, by her Father, she wants to hear the story again, how the world ended. I really liked how Jen loved her father, where they had the perfect bond between them. How can they survive without a no technology? It left me in suspense, to find out how can Jen and her father survive with shops that are old, empty and haven’t had electricity for years, everything is empty around them. After, is a fantastic dystopian future world that no readers or middle grade readers, will ever have read anything like this before! Highly recommend reading Sitich, and After, and of course any other books that have been written by author Padraig Kenny, is a must read.
About author Padraig Kenny
Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer from Newbridge in County Kildare. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a librarian’s assistant, he now writes full-time. His first novel TIN was a Waterstones Book of the Month and was nominated for the Carnegie, as well as being shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. His second novel POG was Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Month when it was published in April 2019. His third novel, The Monsters of Rookhaven, was published by Macmillan Children’s Books in September 2020 and was followed by the sequel, The Shadows of Rookhaven, in 2021. Both The Monsters of Rookhaven and The Shadows of Rookhaven won the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Honour Award for Fiction in 2021 and 2022 respectively. His fifth novel, Stitch, was published by Walker Books in 2024. His latest novel, After, will be published by Walker Books in March 2025 https://www.instagram.com/padraigkenny1
