Long Dark Dusk - J P Smythe
**Spoiler warning** **Long Dark Dusk is the second book of J P Smythe's Australia Trilogy, so although there should be no spoilers about what happens in this book, it would not be possible to review this book without mentioning significant events that took place in the first book of the trilogy, Way Down Dark.** Towards the end of Way Down Dark , the first part of J P Smythe's Australia Trilogy, there was a major revelation for the inhabitants of 'Australia', an interstellar spaceship several generations into their journey to discover new habitable worlds as Earth struggles with over-population and ecological disaster. Over the years social order on the ship has broken down and the ship is overrun with violent gangs and strange cults in a battle for control that eventually threatens the integrity of the ship itself. Among those struggling to simply survive is Chan, a 17 year old young woman who does her best to help the vulnerable against some of the most violent aggres...