The Night of the Triffids

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The Night of the Triffids

By: Simon Clark

Narrated by: Sam Troughton, Nicola Bryant, Paul Clayton

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On the Isle of Wight, a colony of survivors wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Before long, the triffids, thought safely out of the way on the mainland, attack....

In John Wyndham’s classic best seller The Day of the Triffids the world has been overwhelmed by killer plants. As the novel ends, Wyndham’s narrator scientist Bill Masen is escaping, with his wife and four-year-old son, to the Isle of Wight where a small colony of survivors is holding out. Simon Clark’s sequel picks up the story 25 years on.

The survivors are safe, for the time being at least, on their island, where they have continued efforts to combat the triffids, while also striving in various ways to build a new civilization. Elsewhere in the world, similar colonies cling to survival, while the triffids persist in their attempts to destroy humanity.

One morning Bill Masen’s son, David, now grown up, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now, the triffids have an advantage over humanity.

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I listened to this book on audible rather than actually reading it and I’m glad I did. Although it is very short, less than 3 hours, it was really well done and was more like listening to a play with a whole cast of actors and sound effects. It really added to the story for me. My only complaint is that it was too short, I felt like the ending was a little rushed and the whole thing could have been made longer and given more depth.

As for the story itself, I like to think that John Wyndham himself wouldn’t have minded this book, the author was faithful to the story that Mr Wyndham had already wonderfully set up and here he adds a new chapter in this new book. It was dark much like the original and the triffids and humanity both show their dangers to us all.

If it had been fleshed out a little more I think I would have given this 5 stars but as it is 4 is not bad. I would recommend this.