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brandolph's review
4.0
This book kind of terrified me. I’m used to dystopic novels being set hundreds of years in the future, a safe arm’s length away. This book is set in 2020. That’s only two years. It’s set at just an uncomfortable distance. Pair that with the fact that the Event could possibly happen at any time, and this story gets scarier than any horror story...
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I was granted an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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I was granted an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
hbc72's review
I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley.
Did not finish. It was painful and pretentious and I could not get through the first 30 pages without cringing and shutting the book. Kept trying to pick it back up and eventually decided torturing myself wasn't worth it.
It was confusing, I had to look up words more than once (which is normally fine, but the narrator is supposed to be living in a dystopian universe where he's the only one who knows how to read and write and he's not very comfortable with it...), and not only that but it wasn't even a hint of believable! The narrator is supposed to be telling the story of when he was a teen (in 2016/2017) and he's saying things like "I was hoovering the living room." I don't know if anyone told the author but no teen calls vacuuming "hoovering" and hasn't since 1958. The author kept flipping back and forth between "girls are too fragile to run the country, I'm glad Hilary didn't win" to "how could we have let Trump be president?" and it was difficult to follow.
I have only said this about two other books (and those two I at least finished), but I hated it.
Did not finish. It was painful and pretentious and I could not get through the first 30 pages without cringing and shutting the book. Kept trying to pick it back up and eventually decided torturing myself wasn't worth it.
It was confusing, I had to look up words more than once (which is normally fine, but the narrator is supposed to be living in a dystopian universe where he's the only one who knows how to read and write and he's not very comfortable with it...), and not only that but it wasn't even a hint of believable! The narrator is supposed to be telling the story of when he was a teen (in 2016/2017) and he's saying things like "I was hoovering the living room." I don't know if anyone told the author but no teen calls vacuuming "hoovering" and hasn't since 1958. The author kept flipping back and forth between "girls are too fragile to run the country, I'm glad Hilary didn't win" to "how could we have let Trump be president?" and it was difficult to follow.
I have only said this about two other books (and those two I at least finished), but I hated it.
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