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A review by outcolder
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
5.0
I'm not much of a snake person, and I don't like medical dramas (especially at the moment with enough of that in my real life), but Dreamsnake really sped along. The radioactive post apocalypse world is fascinating and the brutal episodes that fit together into a road trip plot make for a great story.
There's some superficial attention to free love and drug addiction that at least had its heart in the right place. There is a pedophile, but the whole book is full of awful people so that particular monster doesn't seem out of place. There's a bit with a city that comes across kind of Oz-ish but still works. I guess the real strength of the writing is how I started to care very much about the main characters even though there didn't seem to be much character development. It just kind of happens invisibly alongside all the action.
There's some superficial attention to free love and drug addiction that at least had its heart in the right place. There is a pedophile, but the whole book is full of awful people so that particular monster doesn't seem out of place. There's a bit with a city that comes across kind of Oz-ish but still works. I guess the real strength of the writing is how I started to care very much about the main characters even though there didn't seem to be much character development. It just kind of happens invisibly alongside all the action.