Title: The Apocalypse Tour
Author: Weitfahrer
Publisher: PageTurner Press and Media
ISBN: 9798889636489
Pages: 331
Genre: Suspense / Apocalyptic Fiction
Reviewed by: Lily Amanda
Hollywood Book Reviews
The Apocalypse Tour is an intelligently imagined novel written by author Weitfahrer. Daniels, a middle grade teacher, embarks on a solo cross-country motorcycle tour, traveling from New York City to Seattle, choosing to set up camp overnight in a remote desert in Northern California. For Daniels, this was to be an uneventful night with enough rest before he continued with his tour the following day. However, fate had something else in store for him. He notices a strange object zigzagging across the sky in utter eerie silence, making a sudden stop on a dune near where his camp was.
Watching this unusual happening makes him feel something uncomfortable and begins to stir deep thoughts and emotions within him. He makes his way to where the object had fallen, and observed it with unrelenting repugnance, an emotion he struggled to understand. What follows is a series of bizarre happenings, with his life constantly in danger from causing him to stay alert in the hope that he will live long enough to solve the nightmarish mystery surrounding the UFO – that seemed to defy every scientific explanation in the land and which had unforeseen future consequences on planet Earth.
Weitfahrer wins readers’ hearts with his well-wrought protagonist whose relentlessness and valor shines across the pages. Steeped in atmosphere and a sense of place, the book’s crisp prose makes it easy to read as it progresses from unraveling the mystery and an uneasy suspicion surrounding the alien device, to a series of tightly-wound action. What will likely catch readers’ attention is the author’s clever and original writing that defies quick odds allowing for keen scrutiny of the perceptions of some of the characters who are present in this story. The result is an utterly compelling tale.
The Apocalypse Tour is certainly a fresh and competent apocalyptic text which is impressive on many levels. I found it hard to put it down until I was done. The plot moves along at an agreeable fast pace and I couldn’t help but wish there would be another installment coming up soon from Weitfahrer. It is unarguably one of those books likely to garner a wide audience.