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A review by caedocyon
All City by Alex DiFrancesco
4.0
Huh! I did finish it. I wasn't sure I would, around the 40% mark, but then I had a conversation with my dad about why he likes apocalyptic sci fi (which I generally avoid) and he said "because people always find a way to go on, no matter how awful things are" and I've been thinking about it a lot. It was still a drag to read til the last 5-10% though, when I could hardly bear to put it down because I had to know what would happen next.
"People find a way to go on" is a pretty good summary of the arc of the book. You make something beautiful (a relationship, a community, guerilla art) but the weight of circumstances brings it down. Something else is always being built and always falling. Down, down, down.
I was impressed with it artistically when I finished, though I don't know if I can justify even to myself why that would be. Maybe because of the end, which really was sweeping.
"People find a way to go on" is a pretty good summary of the arc of the book. You make something beautiful (a relationship, a community, guerilla art) but the weight of circumstances brings it down. Something else is always being built and always falling. Down, down, down.
I was impressed with it artistically when I finished, though I don't know if I can justify even to myself why that would be. Maybe because of the end, which really was sweeping.