Julian Shaw

★★★★★

“Be prepared for a unique story that will stay with you long after you have finished”

A review from Charlie Cavendish, on Goodreads.

The Rains Came down is wonderful mix of the dystopian and fantasy genres. Increasingly I’m finding that I’m really enjoying those novels which straddle genres, so this was very much up my street.

The story starts with the trauma of a train crash and where in most cases that would be the end of things, its just the start of the journey for our main characters Gareth and Hassan. Our main POV is from Gareth, a shy & socially awkward teenager who struggling to find his place in the world before being killed and flung into a parallel world known as The Meadow…