A review by captlychee
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

3.0

This is a pedesgtrain work tha ha succeeded in lit crit circles because it was resolutely not marketed as a science fiction work. It wouldn't pass muster as post-apocalyptic novel. The situation is dessrived with so little attention to the details that you can't feel for the characters. The nature of the apocalypse is only hinted at. As the characters move along the road they get lucky on a surprising number of occasions, and the deus ex macina at the end beggars belief.

But, if you're unfamiliar with SF as a genre you might use this as an inteouiton to proper post-apocalyptic adult (not Y/A) ficitn.

I also jokingly said that it would make a good prequel to Riddley Walker.