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After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
3.0
After the Flood is a straightforward post-apocalyptic survival story: a mother loses one of her two daughters in a flood that swallows the world, and she spends the whole book trying to get her lost daughter back. Ships! Storms! Pirates! It was a fun read.
The book leans heavily on the emotional imagery of motherhood, evoking every parent's fear of losing their child. It brought to mind all of the ways I love and am afraid for my son. However, if you are not the parent of a young child -- or perhaps, if you are a parent who doesn't share these fears -- I could imagine this book falling flat for you. You are meant to imagine yourself as the mother, and live through her on the adventure; apart from that, she is a fairly one-dimensional character.
Despite being a book set in the future about a post-apocalyptic flood, this is not about climate change and it is not science fiction. Extremely little time is spent explaining why the flood happened; it simply did. As a result of the flood, humanity is technologically transported back to the 1700s. If this were a movie, the set would look like Pirates of the Caribbean but with jeans. (These aren't flaws of the book, it simply took me by surprise.)
The book leans heavily on the emotional imagery of motherhood, evoking every parent's fear of losing their child. It brought to mind all of the ways I love and am afraid for my son. However, if you are not the parent of a young child -- or perhaps, if you are a parent who doesn't share these fears -- I could imagine this book falling flat for you. You are meant to imagine yourself as the mother, and live through her on the adventure; apart from that, she is a fairly one-dimensional character.
Despite being a book set in the future about a post-apocalyptic flood, this is not about climate change and it is not science fiction. Extremely little time is spent explaining why the flood happened; it simply did. As a result of the flood, humanity is technologically transported back to the 1700s. If this were a movie, the set would look like Pirates of the Caribbean but with jeans. (These aren't flaws of the book, it simply took me by surprise.)