Reviewed by nitzan_schwarz on
I honestly loved this so much. Most dystopias start with the world already ravaged and ruined, but not this one. This one gives you a glimpse of normal life and then crushes it all to bits and pieces as it describes the drastic and dramatic decline and one family's struggle to survive it through the eyes of Miranda.
This book is slow, but in no point did I get bored. I was riveted, and so connected to the characters and their stories that I teared up, especially in the good times, because I could literally feel how precious they were to these people.
This book does make one want to stock on food and batteries and savor every pint of ice cream and chocolate. The scariest part is that as I was reading on earthquakes in the book, there were all the earthquakes in Europe and I swear this book made me so paranoid for a moment I thought I might be living in it and the end of the world (as we know it) is coming.
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- 1 November, 2016: Finished reading
- 1 November, 2016: Reviewed