When I first read the subtitle ["Planet Earth is Fighting back"] I thought: oh! this is going to be a Nature Retaliates story in the vein of Ray Milland's 1972 Creature Feature "Frogs." Not! I should have paid more heed to the title itself.

The premise is exciting; something is inexplicably and unidentifiably occurring in many individuals to "reverse" the progress of evolution, and as this continues, it reaches Apocalyptic levels.

The problem is that the file I read apparently had not been proofread at all. The more than frequent misspellings and grammar errors consistently interrupted my suspension of disbelief. It proved difficult to focus on the story line, even though I think it had important implications.

I really enjoyed this book. It wasn't predictable in the way other similar books have been. I was invested in the characters which were well fleshed out and real. You know who you're rooting for but you do not know how they could possibly succeed.

I got his novel as an ARC from NetGalley in return for an honest review. I admit it took a little while to get into this story, but once I did, I was hooked. I needed to find out what the "problem" was and if they would solve it and where would that leave us in the end. The characters were relatable and believable and found myself at a crossroads wanting them to succeed and find a way out of this mess, but also in the back of my mind, I kept thinking, well, maybe we (humans) deserve it. All in all a good novel that keeps you on your toes and gets you thinking, what if?!

Violence suddenly starts breaking out all over the world. Nurse Lynn Eastwood and her husband, who works for intelligence, become aware that this aggression is actually a symptom not of any kind of new civilisation neurosis, but of a terrifying new illness, starting with headaches and fever.
Then, a blogger takes a video of something ape-like. Surely we are not turning into crazed Neanderthals?

A variant of zombie horror stories, this novel puts some good speculative science into the sub genre. So-called homo sapiens have evolved to become the ultimate apex predator, but at a horrendous cost to the rest of the planet and its delicate eco system. Could it be that something, somehow, has decided to pull the plug on us?

If you like your SF or horror.action packed, you will enjoy it, but this is bleak stuff, possibly reflecting the unease many people must already be feeling about how so much, socially and politically, has devolved already in recent years, and perhaps, how much worse things could get from here.

This is one of those books that was picked because of an interesting premise, and I'm glad that I did. The story was amazing and kinda scary how everything in The book could be possible.

This is a very good book for may reasons. It is well-written with a number of endearing characters. The basic premise of the story is that individuals are DNA. The story includes action as the regression is fought and personal interactions as members of families are stricken. The book offers much to think about as the scientist finds the reason for the individual regressions.

I’ve actually been finding some very nice random indie works of speculative fiction lately and this one even had decent reviews to prop it up. Plus I love a good end of the world story. And here the author does something original for a change too. Specifically, he ends the world via…as the title promises…devolution of the species. Which is to say man and womankind alike are suddenly reverting back to something more primitive and entirely more violent. Some readers have said this is a fresh take on the zombie genre, for me it wasn’t quite that, but it’s easy to understand how the connection is made. Unthinking killing machine that can only be terminated via a brain kill…sure. What the author did here though is he threw science on the matter, dormant genes and all that, so it seems these zombies are really more along the lines of Neanderthals, although (as much as I love a good Neanderthal story) here they are presented as entirely too aggressively homicidal and possessing very low intelligence, more along the lines of low cunning if that. But…basically…Mother Earth has had enough and it’ll cleanse itself by any means available. So the story is interesting and the pacing is appropriately dynamic and even the characters are engaging enough, what brings the story down like a bag of bricks is a combination of uneven writing and absolutely atrocious editing. In fact, it doesn’t appear as though any editing has been done at all, even though the version provided via Netgalley actually specifies that it is the edited. If this is it edited, I’d hate to know what this manuscript read like before. I mean, rampant typos, apostrophes where they shouldn’t be and none where they ought to be, the characters are tiered instead of tired and their sentiments are callas instead of callous. It’s a mess. And the writing has its struggles too…character descriptions are not only mechanical and clunky, they also inexplicably switch tenses. Narration occasionally gets railroaded by something completely out of character. It’s all the more weird because majority of the writing is perfectly serviceable to the story, even decent at times…and then there’s just something glaringly out of place, out of tone, out of time. I’m not even going to go into the science of it all, because, frankly, it’s quite a fun mix of speculation, genetics and conspiracy theories. It reads fairly cogently or at the very least has a sort of internal logic that coheres. The story is essentially fun, although obviously quite bleak. And it has a strong environmental message. Although if environmental messages worked, we wouldn’t be living with this radical climate changes and depressing future forecasts. But it boggles the mind how something this shoddily edited can be put out for the public. So go in cautioned. Otherwise it’s a very quick pretty fun read. Thanks Netgalley.