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A review by pinenoodle
The Last Wild Horses by Maja Lunde
2.0
Misery for the sake of misery. One of the viewpoint characters has a close real life analogue, except the fictional version is incredibly incompletent and incredibly miserable. But I guess that's why some people go to lit fic?
The above is why I didn't enjoy this. I was also annoyed by the book because the author didn't bother with a lot of research. Or, if she did, then she didn't want to let it get in the way of conveying misery to her audience. Aspects of the climate apocalypse didn't make sense (almost all insects have disappeared, but that has some how not led to complete and utter catastrophe--and apparently in the event of the break down of society, staying on a working farm where you can produce food is a bad idea and one should instead just wander with no goal in mind?). Also, despite the books focus on a species of wild horses across 3 timelines, the text makes any number of errors about the animals.
It didn't help that one of the narrators of the audiobook narrates in peak 'bored literary reader' voice.
The above is why I didn't enjoy this. I was also annoyed by the book because the author didn't bother with a lot of research. Or, if she did, then she didn't want to let it get in the way of conveying misery to her audience. Aspects of the climate apocalypse didn't make sense (almost all insects have disappeared, but that has some how not led to complete and utter catastrophe--and apparently in the event of the break down of society, staying on a working farm where you can produce food is a bad idea and one should instead just wander with no goal in mind?). Also, despite the books focus on a species of wild horses across 3 timelines, the text makes any number of errors about the animals.
It didn't help that one of the narrators of the audiobook narrates in peak 'bored literary reader' voice.