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Oct 27, 2016
The writing on the sentence level was really compelling and interesting, full of twists of phrase and deeply apt description. I also liked that the apocalypse was limited in its scope -- the pacific northwest, the eastern seaboard are still more or less fine, but this area is abandoned by anyone able to leave it -- that felt more realistic than the average postapocalypse (though I admit I haven't read that many). The reviews above are right: one of the strengths of the book is that it reminds us that people who are one way before an apocalypse will only be moreso afterward -- the tedium of society blunts our innermost nature, and without it we lose the niceties and insulation.