*Book source ~ NetGalley
22 February 2013
Post-Apocalyptic | YA
478 Pages
My Rating ~ 1
DNF at 11%
A virus kills off billions
in a matter of days. The world as we know it ends and now the few survivors are
trying to stay alive.
This is one of the
stupidest books I’ve had the misfortune to pick up. The writing is horrible,
the characters are vapid, and while I expect sci-fi to be a bit out there, it
needs to have some grounding in basic facts. If billions of people died in just
a few days, how in the fuck are all the gas stations out of gas? They were
sick, in bed or the hospital, puking their guts up, not running out there to
fill up their tanks because they knew the world was ending. No one knew how bad
it was because it happened so fast. Also, the phones and cells are out. And yet
somehow these two friends are emailing each other. Apparently the internet is a
magical place in this book where wifi roams free for all to use, no matter
where they are. So much bullshit I had to give up at 11%. How did this crap
even get published?
I usually like apocalyptic books about a mass extinction of humans...but I'll take your word that one is a big loser :)
ReplyDeleteI love post-apocalyptic and dystopian books. And I tried with this one. I really did. But the further I read the worse it got, so I had to toss in the towel.
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