Auntiepam's review
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
by Thomas Mullen
Sandra and Tracy, you're welcome to my copy. A nice lady from BookCrazy sent it to me and I'd be glad to pass it on.
I was quite disappointed in this book as well. The topic had such promise. I did enjoy the historical Northwest setting.
Auntiepam's review
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel by Thomas Mullen
Auntiepam's review
bookshelves:
dumped
recommended for: nobody
I only managed a few chapters so it wouldn't be fair to assign a rating. The prologue had some muscle, but after that, it felt like Mullen had done some research on the epidemic and the labor troubles and thought they'd be good subjects for a novel. He was right about that, at least.
Quibbles: unrealistic dialogue, cliches to describe characters("domineering patriarch"), info dumping and exposition, use of the word "preternatural", saying that no one knew if Commonwealth was 50 or 100 miles from Seattle (I don't think so), the soldier saying "I'm an American soldier and I'm asking for help", Philip living with the Worthy family for just two years but referring to the family members as "father" and "sister", another character described as a "fecund intellectual" writing "disquisitive tomes".
Bah. There might be some good stuff in here about the epidemic and the Wobblies, but if I'm not going to suffer throu...more
Quibbles: unrealistic dialogue, cliches to describe characters("domineering patriarch"), info dumping and exposition, use of the word "preternatural", saying that no one knew if Commonwealth was 50 or 100 miles from Seattle (I don't think so), the soldier saying "I'm an American soldier and I'm asking for help", Philip living with the Worthy family for just two years but referring to the family members as "father" and "sister", another character described as a "fecund intellectual" writing "disquisitive tomes".
Bah. There might be some good stuff in here about the epidemic and the Wobblies, but if I'm not going to suffer throu...more
Sandra and Tracy, you're welcome to my copy. A nice lady from BookCrazy sent it to me and I'd be glad to pass it on.
I was quite disappointed in this book as well. The topic had such promise. I did enjoy the historical Northwest setting.


