Review: Post-apocalyptic meets quirky
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2013
Was this a humor book or a dark post-apocalyptic novel? That's what I was left wondering when I finished this book. And then I realized that it was... both. There's a lot of destruction in this book, the usual level you're used to getting when reading a good book about a dark and dreary future, but the characters made this book come screaming to life. They are quirky, weird and some of the situations are hilarious.But there's the undertone of realism to it. Okay, maybe not the swamp people, but it added that glint of humor that this book needed and deserved. The writing was superb and the author's ability to weave a story is amazingly well done. It could have used with a little bit of an extra edit, but it did not distract from the story, you are entirely too caught up in this world and Walter's aftermath that you could care less.With all the bad weather news swirling around the past couple of years, it also made you think... there was a scene in the book that brought me back to a book I read in high school - Alas, Babylon. It wasn't as good as that, Pat Frank's novel is a classic, but that one little scene has stuck with me.Recommended for those that don't mind having a laugh with their death and destruction.