post-apocalyptic

The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman

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Started: 3/1/19
Finished: 3/6/19

This is a post-apocalyptic world where nearly all white people died and the people who live die by the time they’re 20 (of what sounds like the plague), so the world is populated by kids.  The language is all dialect or pidgin, hard to get used to, but you get there.  It’s told in the first person, so that language is all you get.  It’s sometimes hard to remember that the main character is only 15. At other times, it’s painfully obvious and terribly sad that they’re all just children.  I was having trouble deciding if I liked it, or even if I thought it was good, and since I finished it over a week ago and I can’t let it go, I think that’s a yes on both counts (although I’m not crazy about the VERY end).

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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Started: 5/6/18
Finished: 5/13/18

I feel like I’ve read this book before.  The story is too familiar.  It’s The Stand, it’s World War Z with vampires.  It’s about a government experiment that unleashes the apocalypse and then, decades later, how what society is left is dealing with it (and eventually, hopefully, defeating it).  This is the first in a trilogy (something I didn’t know when I started it).  I will admit here that I read the summaries on Wikipedia and Goodreads to see what happens in the other two books rather than read them myself.

Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn

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Started: 1/23/18
Finished: 1/26/18

The premise was interesting – post-apocalyptic world, society determines that overpopulation was one of the causes of collapse, so people have to earn the right to have kids – but it took a while to get to that explanation, and I never felt like it had a point. Also, the writing was ANNOYING. John was reading another of her books at the same time and had similar issues with the writing. I finished it, but it was difficult not to skim through to the end.