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A review by kentanapages
The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.0
This book was a wild ride. I enjoyed the dark, witty humor and the increasing absurdity, somehow also completely imaginable as something that could happen given the right circumstances.
Aretha is a workaholic law associate at a fairly prestigious law firm, fighting every day to keep her spot by constantly. After a long string of bad dates she finally meets Aaron, a down to earth coffee entrepreneur who can relate to not having parents and helps her find moments of calm and safety. Aaron also happens to live in a brownstone with two individuals who believe in “preparedness”, down to the bunker in the backyard. Through a series of small interactions and events that slowly add up, we tumble with Aretha through a year+ of life that lands her in a very different world than she had envisioned. There were moments of absurdity that caught me by surprise, but were also written in a completely believable way given the circumstances leading up to them and the pressures of today’s daily grind in a win or lose world. I related way too much to a lot of Aretha's internal dialogue around her own worth in relation to her career and her job, and her fears of the unknown.
There were places in the middle where I felt things could have moved faster, but I have no complaints about the last 20%, and I feel like I’ll be processing and thinking about this story for a bit.
Aretha is a workaholic law associate at a fairly prestigious law firm, fighting every day to keep her spot by constantly. After a long string of bad dates she finally meets Aaron, a down to earth coffee entrepreneur who can relate to not having parents and helps her find moments of calm and safety. Aaron also happens to live in a brownstone with two individuals who believe in “preparedness”, down to the bunker in the backyard. Through a series of small interactions and events that slowly add up, we tumble with Aretha through a year+ of life that lands her in a very different world than she had envisioned. There were moments of absurdity that caught me by surprise, but were also written in a completely believable way given the circumstances leading up to them and the pressures of today’s daily grind in a win or lose world. I related way too much to a lot of Aretha's internal dialogue around her own worth in relation to her career and her job, and her fears of the unknown.
There were places in the middle where I felt things could have moved faster, but I have no complaints about the last 20%, and I feel like I’ll be processing and thinking about this story for a bit.