A review by laplantec
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

4.0

A beautifully written, poetic, apocalyptic story of adolescence. The "age of miracles" in the title refers to adolescence, which is a lovely way to think of those years, but the slow crumbling of our world is the end of all miracles. I really do love these two genres more than any others (coming-of-age fiction written for adults+end-of-the-world science fiction) and I thought this one would top all others, but honestly, Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer is to me a more exciting and terrifying look at the same type of scenario from a teenage girl's point of view. This book was lovely, but the other just had a sense of realism that this one didn't.