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nicmar 's review for:
The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
Terrifying, beautiful, inspiring, thought- provoking — these are just some of the words I could use to describe this amazing debut by Karen Thompson Walker. Some authors try — and fail — to write a good dystopian/apocalyptic story by adding pages and pages of endless action and death, of zombies and gore and explosions, leaving you with nothing but a 600 page action dystopian/apocalyptic novel with no background. Too many authors forget the one thing that should drive these stories forward: fear. But Karen Thompson certainly did not forget when she wrote this novel. Packed with vivid descriptions of the Earth's slowing and the ecosystem's decaying state, The Age of Miracles embodies what an apocalyptic novel should be — frightening. And amidst the realistic apocalypse that is the slowing of the world, the lengthening of the days, the dying of the flora and fauna, there is a story of a family falling apart, of a young girl coming of age and falling in love, of a civilization changing in a world that is going through something that seems entirely too real to the reader. There is a reason this novel received starred reviews from pretty much everyone…because it's perfect.