A review by meshell
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I read this book back in 2019, and I generally enjoyed it. I thought it was clever  - and viewing it through the lens of still going through a pandemic, it's even more prescient on some of the less awesome human inclinations during a pandemic (but also some of the good ones.)

I thought the different points of view were great interms of building the story to it's eventual outcome. It was a book I could get lost in, the characters were all interesting, flawed, but interesting, the premise was fascinating. 

minor spoiler ahead, and some of my least favourite parts of the book:
But I've realized that even two years later, every time I think of this otherwise decent enough book, I'm still reminded of the gratuitous rape scene, 3/4 of the way through the book. It was just so unnecessary, we'd already established very well that Stoover was a "bad guy," it wasn't subtle, but it's just tacked on there as additional evidence. And Wendig even wrote about how gross gratuitous rape scenes were (in reference to game of thrones, but still - he knows it's gross.)
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