tani reviewed on
Well, I liked it--thinking of it as a sort of sci-fi, in which genre, survival-after-the-end-of-the-world stories like Alas Babylon--have always fascinated me. I would have liked it better if it had at least explained how the hideous situation in the book had come about. Perhaps that would have been too much trouble for the author, with a bit of research being necessary to make the explanation plausible. Am I being too hard on him?
At any rate, it is a very dark story with little to redeem the mood, except the love of the boy and his father and the kindness of a couple of people at the very end, no character development, a extremely thin plot line... In fact, there is not very much to it at all, except evading dangerous people, finding food, reaching the sea, and the father's illness, and I find the way the conversations are handled irritating.
If it should come my way again, I will pass.
At any rate, it is a very dark story with little to redeem the mood, except the love of the boy and his father and the kindness of a couple of people at the very end, no character development, a extremely thin plot line... In fact, there is not very much to it at all, except evading dangerous people, finding food, reaching the sea, and the father's illness, and I find the way the conversations are handled irritating.
If it should come my way again, I will pass.
