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Apr 26, 2018
Amanda
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Fall 2017:
Oh, my thoughts on this book. I did not love this book and I could only best describe it as "meta of the post-apocalypse novel." I did get involved with the book, the memories, the unending slog of pages with no chapters that stood for the unending, never separated slog of their life now, but I never quite liked/loved it. I did love the small boy and his growth, but I felt his ending was too fast and sudden and 'perfect,' within 2-3 pages, of the sudden fall that befell him in the end ...more
Oh, my thoughts on this book. I did not love this book and I could only best describe it as "meta of the post-apocalypse novel." I did get involved with the book, the memories, the unending slog of pages with no chapters that stood for the unending, never separated slog of their life now, but I never quite liked/loved it. I did love the small boy and his growth, but I felt his ending was too fast and sudden and 'perfect,' within 2-3 pages, of the sudden fall that befell him in the end ...more
I still think about this book and I read it well over a year ago. So stark, so moving, so terribly frightening. I don't think I thought normally about the world around me for weeks. Read very quickly and highly recommend it.
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Hmmmmmmm....not sure what to say about this book. I was warned it was depressing, and they were right! But at the same time it makes you wonder "what if". Page turner, took me 2 days to read this.
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Nov 25, 2008
Miquela
marked it as to-read
Curious but CSI didn't like it so it not on the top of my list.
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Well written, but so dark!
Jan 12, 2011
Teri G
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Jun 11, 2011
Grace
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Jan 31, 2012
Erica
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Nov 25, 2015
Kathy Wheeler
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Jana
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Oct 23, 2018
Nicole Oswald
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Aimee
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