DID NOT FINISH: 37%

Some of this is on me because I tend to read titles (or maybe follow favorite authors/series), so I didn't read the blurb. This isn't about different scenarios, but more about mental and social ideas surrounding difficult circumstances.

There was also an overuse of the f-word. I'm not a prude, John Malkovich & Samuel L. Jackson weave that wors into language like a masterpiece tapestry. Plenty of other people use it properly for emphasis or humor in just the right place. I think the goal here was humor and I understand the idea of un-effing ourselves, but it was overused. The first time made me laugh, the second time came way too soon, and by the time I was through the short first chapter it'd probably been used a half dozen times or more without much other humor. It felt like it was used more than "apocalypse" or "disaster" and just wasn't landing.

I rarely give up on books and could have easily finished this in a day, but after the hour drive home when I started it, I was dreading doing chores this afternoon continuing to listen to it.

Again some of this is on me for assuming the topic after stumbling across it in the science section of the the library.

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