ckirk762 reviewed on 6/29/2010 + 34 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

Let me start off by saying that I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic books... but this one was hard to get into. The narrator is a very deep thinker with a propensity to ramble up to his final thoughts in a very convoluted, twisty manner. I found myself skimming many a single sentence paragraph looking for that final concrete idea the narrator was aiming for. I just couldn't get into his thought process and I've always figured myself as a rambling thinker/writer.

Perhaps it's because I'm a woman and the entire book is presented from a distinctly male voice - never delving into what the women are thinking - only wondering at and trying to read voice and mannerisms. To be honest, I skipped the entire middle of the book and don't feel like I missed out on much. The book starts off with the boat finding an island they can establish themselves on... just when it was getting interesting (how were they going to handle the fact that there were only 23 women and 100 something men...) the author decides to go into everything that led up to the war and what the ship went through to get to the island. By that point, I could have cared less and only wanted to know how they were going to handle the continuance of the race issue. So as I said, I read Book I: The Island and then skipped to Book VI: The Last Women.

All in all it was an okay read, but not a book I have to add to my collection to re-read (which is how I judge a great book)

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