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Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)

Chuck Wendig

Start date: December 15, 2020

Finish date: January 1, 2020

Discussion: AW BOOK CLUB (spoilers)

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Jul 31, 2019 🥀 Rose 🥀 rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle-reads, apocalypse, plague

I didn’t love this book but I liked it a lot and enjoyed it for the most part. Took me a bit longer than I thought it would. The comparisons to the The Stand and Swan Song is overrated. Those are at the top of their game end of world books and I don’t feel this one comes close. The only similarity is the length. In this case, too long. It could have been cut way down and the message would have had the same impact. Not a lot of movement but a lot of words. Not to say you shouldn’t read it, it’s e ...more

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Sep 10, 2020 Kaye rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobooks, apocalypse_dystopia, read-in-2020

Oh my goodness. What an incredible book! I listened to it on audio, which took an astonishing 32 hours, narrated very well by Dominic Hoffman and Xe Sands.

While the inhabitants of Earth are awestruck and frightened of one mysterious malady in which there is a small flock of sleepwalkers, moving on to a mysterious location; there are attacks on other multiple fronts. Turmoil reigns as ideological illness in the form of white supremacist militias gain traction, and new threats come forward, not j ...more

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Feb 12, 2021 Brook rated it liked it · review of another edition

Some people have compared this book to The Stand. In fact, the author mentions Stephen King in the book as part of the plot. Clearly, this was inpsired by Stand and The Long Walk.

But the liner notes would have you believe that this is the "next" Stand. It is not. It is enjoyable in itself, if you dont read the liner notes. It is very clearly King-derived. So if you like the books referenced above, or like King, this could provide a fix. It is not up to the caliber. One exception: this author wr ...more

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