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I'm not sure what to make of this.
It's gritty, unforgiving and brutal. What a nightmare.
But it isn't complete, I don't think. I understand that our 'hero' doesn't know what happened to cause the apocalypse, therefore we the reader don't know either, but there's more to it than that. We find out who the biggest threats are, and we're told how they came into being and what they're about. We're told what a struggle it is for humans to function and what makes things difficult to survive. We're even ...more
It's gritty, unforgiving and brutal. What a nightmare.
But it isn't complete, I don't think. I understand that our 'hero' doesn't know what happened to cause the apocalypse, therefore we the reader don't know either, but there's more to it than that. We find out who the biggest threats are, and we're told how they came into being and what they're about. We're told what a struggle it is for humans to function and what makes things difficult to survive. We're even ...more
Other reviewers on Amazon covered the plotline very well, so there is no need for me to rehash. This book, as one of the other reviewers said, WAS depressing, but that was the point. It was different in that there was a twist to the why/how of the "zombies". I won't spoil it for you.
The story was good, dark, lonely and distant. Jane's love for his son, who could not have possibly survived, is what keeps him going for TEN YEARS. It, as someone else said, really IS kind of like The Road, but not ...more
The story was good, dark, lonely and distant. Jane's love for his son, who could not have possibly survived, is what keeps him going for TEN YEARS. It, as someone else said, really IS kind of like The Road, but not ...more
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