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challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The marketing for this book really plays up the romance/love story angle, which is what initially led me to choose to request an ARC via the Simon Books Buddy program. What I got instead was an unflinchingly dark and realistic and grim portrait of human extinction via manufactured disease. The descriptions of starvation, abandonment, various methods of suicide, and violence were too much for me. However! I did think the writing was engaging, and the plot was a new take on the apocalypse/end of humanity tale for me. I think lots of folks will like this if they're not in it for the romance.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Murder, Suicide, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Abandonment, and Violence
Moderate: Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Gore, Animal death, Rape, and Infertility
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